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plant than either of the allied species. I have a slight suspicion 

 that Mr. BalFs plant did not grow in such a spot as to be satis- 

 factorily considered as indigenous. Dr. Balfour informs me that 

 he gathered the plant called H. anglicum in this paper at Cul- 

 ross in Scotland in July 1883, also that he has a specimen from 

 the county of Galway " very like it." 



It may be well to add the specific character of H. hircinum as 

 follows : — 



H. hircinum (Linn.) ; stem shrubby 2-edged much branched, pedi- 

 cels 2-winged, leaves ovate-ohlong, cymes few-flowered, sepals lan- 

 ceolate unequal, styles equalling or exceeding the stamens, capsules 

 oblong acute. 



H. hircinum, Linn, Sp. PI. 1103 et Auct. 



4. Agrimonia odorata. 



Until recently the only authority for the introduction of Affri- 

 monia odorata into British botany was a single specimen gathered 

 in 1842 in the island of Jersey by the Rev. W. W. Newbould. 

 On the 9th of September 1852 I had the pleasure, in company 

 with that gentleman, of finding it growing rather abundantly 

 amongst bushes on the rocky shore of Lough Neagh in the 

 county of Antrim, and within a few hundred yards of Shane's 

 Castle. There it was intermixed with A. Eupatoria, and they 

 conspicuously difiered. They were out of flower at that season. 



I learn from a letter addressed by Mr. Borrer to Mr. New- 

 bould that Mr. Joseph Woods found A. odorata in the autumn 

 of 1852 near to the Start Point in Devonshire, and near Gwi- 

 thian in Cornwall. 



A. odorata may be characterized as follows : — 



A. odorata (Mill.) ; leaves interruptedly pinnate coarsely serrate hairy 

 and with many minute glands beneath, calyx-tube of the fruit 

 bellshaped not furrowed, exterior spines of the fruit declining. 



A. odorata. Mill. Diet. n. 3 ; Koch, Syn. 245 ; Mert. et Koch, 

 Beutschl. Fl. iii. 376; BeCand. Prod. ii. 587 1;C.A. Mey. " Bull, 

 St. Pet. X. 344," and Ann. Sc. Nat, ser. 2. xviii, 375 ; Guss, 

 Syn. i. 527 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 31. 



A. procera, Wallr. in Linncea, xiv. 573. 



This plant closely resembles A. Eupatoria in most of its cha- 

 racters, but is manifestly distinct when the fruit is observed. 

 The bellshaped form of that part in the present species is very 

 difi"erent from the obconic fruit of its ally. In this the outer 

 rows of the spines of the calyx are directed, downwards, and the 

 inner rows exceed the limb of the calyx ; the whole plant also 

 is considerably larger than A. Eupatoria, which has its outer 



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