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looks as if the plant were truly wild. Mr. Thomas Hutton, the 

 well known guide to the Lakes, never could point the plant out 

 to any of the numerous botanists who went searchino for it. 

 Potamogeton ciispidatnm of Teesdale is admitted upon the 

 authority of Schrader. Sagina erecta, so different from the 

 rest, is here, as well as by Hooker, called Mcenchia glanca. 



The genus Myosotis, raised lately to some popularity under 

 the name of Forget-me-not, is well illustrated. Three new 

 species are added, M. ccespitosa, sylvatica (Ray's plant), and 

 intermedia. The two first are not uncommon. The author 

 follows Lehman, the great authority in this tribe, in callino- 

 ?icpicola, E. B., alpestris. Lithospermum maritimum is the old 

 Pulmonaria maritima. Does it not turn out that most of the 

 habitats assigned to Pidmonaria officinalis are those of angusti- 

 folia ? The Echium italicum is very justly excluded. Ray's 

 plant, brought from Jersey by Joseph Smith, Esq., F.L'S, 

 justified, as far as the present writer noted at the time, all the 

 changes of synonyms here made ; and in addition he recollects 

 consulting the Sherardian Herbarium to ascertain the Echium 

 ramosius, Sic. (Moris, sect. xi. t. 27), and he found it the Jersey 

 plant, and not the italicum. It will probably be found here- 

 after to be a good species. Those who love the Primroses, 

 with all their agreeable early associations, will be pleased to 

 find the addition of P. scotica to our Flora. Cyclamen cnro- 

 pteum, the old Sow- bread, turns out to be hederifolium. Me- 

 nyanthcs nymphaoides, so aptly termed the Fringed Water- 

 lily, is not, with Professor Hooker, removed to Villarsia. 

 The remark that the trivial name is not meant to compare 

 the plant with a nymph, but with a Nympluca, is obviously 

 just. The pretty Anagallis ccendea, which has no specific cha- 

 racter, though all the beauty, of a noticeable species, is still re- 

 tained. Campanula persicifolia is an addition. J'iolajlavicornis 

 is made out of canina y. Is not Sibthorp's V. arvensis as o-ood 

 as any ? A very curious instance of irritability is recorded 

 under Verhamim pulvcrulentum .• if the stems be smartly struck 

 three or four times with a stick, all the flowers then open will, 

 in a few minutes, throw oft' their corolla, the calyx closing 

 round the germen, so that after eight or ten minutes none will 

 remain on the plant. Chironia has disappeared, all our species 

 being true Eryt/ircea?. E. latifolia is well established as a 

 species, being the second var. of Chironia Cent auri urn in 

 EL Br. 



So much has occurred to interest us in perusing the first 

 volume, that we have lengthened our observations much be- 

 yond our original intention. The second volume will furnish 

 another paper for the next Number. 



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