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characterize the true unclnata, and says his plaut is certainly 

 identical with Michaux's. 



De Candolle's description of the leaflets makes it clear that 

 Nuttall's plant from Arkansas, on which he bases his supposed new 

 genus, must be referred to S. uncinata. We have what is no doubt 

 the same gathering from Nuttall ("Arkansa prairies ") which he 

 had first named horndida, then considered a new species which he 

 proposed to call reticulata, and finally referred correctly to uncinata. 

 The Texan plant distributed by Berlandier (no. 1605) as LejUoglottis 

 Nuttalii, although approaching amjustata in general appearance, has 

 the reticulated leaflets which characterize S. uncinata. 



<' Clematis rosea no v. sp. 



" Clematis reticulata Walt. Flo. Carol. 156 ? 



" The Clematis seems to be hitherto nondescript, of which we 

 have seen a specimen from the Kew garden in Sir Joseph Banks's 

 collection. It may be characterized Foliis simplicihus jnnnatisque 

 cirrhosis intetjerrimis, petalis lanceolatis, semi^iibus caudisque gla- 

 hriusculis. 



" This might certainly be taken for the C. reticulata of Walter's 

 Flora Caroliniana, p. 156, copied into Grmelin's Systema, p. 873, if 

 the last-mentioned writer only were confided in ; for he has omitted 

 a part of [Walter's] character caudis plumosissimis, and the rest 

 a<yrees exactly with our plant. But in the Kew specimen, which, 

 though its leaves are more acute and sometimes lobed, we can 

 scarcely think different from that before us, the large compressed 

 seeds are only slightly downy as well as their cauda. We must 

 leave the absolute determination of this point till we are possessed 

 of better materials to decide it." (Vol. ii. t. ci. p. 201.) 



De Candolle {Syst. i. 157, Prod. i. 8) erroneously attributes the 

 name C. rosea to Abbot, and cites his figure as a synonym of 

 C. reticulata Walt. — the type of which we have in Walter's herba- 

 rium. So far as the figure goes, this is probably correct : the 

 Banksian specimen, however, upon which Smith bases his descrip- 

 tion, is clearly C. crispa L. ; the specimens, although much damaged, 

 are in good fruit, which corresponds excellently with the figure of 

 Dillenius {Hort. Eltham. t. 73, p. 86), upon which Linnseus 

 estabUshed this species. The specimen, rather than the figure, is 

 the type of Smith's C. rosea, which should therefore stand in the 

 Index Kew ensis as^C. crispa, instead oi—G. reticulata, as at present. 



THE MOSSES OF CHESHIRE. 



By J. A. Wheldon. 



In preparing this list of Cheshire Mosses, I have procured the 

 bulk of my information from Dickinson's Flora of Liverpool, Mar- 

 ratt's Liverpool Mosses (referred to as M), and Whitehead's Moss Flora 

 of Ashton-under-Lyne (W). A valuable article in the Naturalist, ix. 202, 

 on " The early bryological work of William Wilson," by Mr. James 



