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daquel la premiere espece counue a ete observee ; il avait deja 

 ete nomme Hepetis par Svvartz et Solander : L'Heritier lui-meme 

 le designait dans ses manuscrits sous le nom de Spirastigma, qui 

 indique son principal caractere ; mais le nom de Pltcairnia k 

 prevalu, et a ete adopte par Swartz lui-meme, qui aurait pu 

 reclamer la priorite " ; and in Eees's CijdopcBdia (1819), under 

 Pltcairnia, we read: " The name of Hepetis, appropriated by Swartz, 

 from Solander's manuscripts, to the same genus, lias by common 

 consent been given up, in favour of the claims of so eminent a 

 benefactor to botany as Dr. Pitcairn." Besides Hepetis, nine 

 other genera are indicated as found in the Banksian herbarium. 

 Three of them, Xiphidium Loefl., Rui/schia Jacq., and Apeiba Aubl., 

 were already in existence, and are among the few genera of other 

 authors to which reference is made in the preface as " nova genera 

 necdum Systemati Vegetabilium iuserta," which Swartz determined 

 afresh, and carefully examined and described. 



Sloane's Jamaica plants supplied him with many novelties. 

 Thus, out of nineteen species of Panicam, we are referred for no 

 less than six to the History of Jamaica, while two are based on 

 Patrick Browne's work. In three cases, namely. Panic wii pilosiini, 

 P. diffmum, and P. nnjzoidcs, no mention of the plant cited by 

 Swartz will be found in Sloane's History, the references being to 

 MS. notes at the bottom of the given page in Sloane's own copy 

 in the Department of Botany at the British Museum. In each case 

 there is a marginal reference to the volume and folio in the Sloane 

 herbarium, wherein the plant is duly labelled by Sloane himself. 



A. B. Kendle. 



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Hymenophyllum tunbridgense Sm. in the South Ebudes, 

 v.-c. 102. — I am pleased to be able to furnish confirmation of 

 the old doubted record of this fern from the South Inner Hebrides 

 (Islay, Jura, &c.). On October 21st I received from Dr. T. F. 

 Gilmour, of Port Ellen, fresh fruiting specimens gathered by him 

 in the Kildalton Woods, Islay. These have been submitted to 

 Mr. Arthur Bennett, who states that this confirmation raises to 

 twenty-nine the number of vice-counties in which the plant is 

 known to grow. We have now authentic record of the occurrence 

 of this fern in the following seven vice-counties on the West Coast 

 of Scotland, viz. (7G) Ilenfrew ; (97) Westerness; (98) Argyle, 

 Main; (99) Dumbarton; (100) Clyde Isles; (102) South Ebudes; 

 and (103) Mid-Ebudes; besides in (80) Stirling, an inland county. 



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E. Suffolk Charas. — In June last we collected a Chara in two 

 places near Southwold, which Messrs. Groves identified as C. can- 

 csccns Loisel. This plant has hitherto been recorded only from 

 Cornwall and Dorset, and from Ireland ; so its occurrence in 

 Norfolk very considerably extends its range. The plants bore 



