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to my disappointment, the gardener informed me 
he had introduced the plant in various parts of the 
wood several years before. Ina small lake, high 
on the Wallingford moors, Nuphar minima is found 
in plenty; and about twelve years ago, Mr. Treve- 
lyan had plants removed to the ponds in his gar- 
dens, where it flourishes with Bautomus umbellatus, 
and Menyanthes nympheoides of the South of En- 
gland, and Nymphea alba, and Nymphea lutea of 
the North, but still retains its diminutive size.— 
This, allow me to remark, is all the difference I can 
find between it and JV. /utea; for the teeth of the 
stigma (I mean their protrusion) depends upon the 
age of the seed-vessel, and the approximation or 
separation of the lobes of the leaves also, is owing 
to age. Erythrea littoral, I think, must be consi- 
dered a good species; it is scattered over several 
hundred acres in Holy Island; and though I met 
with many gigantic specimens, still the peculiar 
shape of the leaf and mode of growth were retained, 
while Erythrea Centaurium grows on the sandy sea- 
beach near Tynemouth, without being altered by 
situation. Here also Selene inflata may be seen, as 
in inland fields, without being changed into Silene 
maritima:—see Hooker's Flora Scotica. Thomas, of 
Bex, has sent me German specimens of the Pheasant- 
eye Pink, as Dianthus plumarius. Is he correct? or 
what is D. plumarius ?—D. arenarius I have from 
Swartz. Should any plant not as yet published in 
English Botany fall in my way, fresh specimens 
shall be sent to Sowerby for the Appendix.—Losa 
dumetorum ? and a few mosses he received from me 
