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manner, and for the same reasons. Thus we find Hubus 

 plicatus, rhamnifolius, leucostachys, glandulosus, nitidus, and 

 qffinis, all new; part admitted on the authority of Weihe and 

 Nees, authors of a very elaborate work, with plates, on the 

 German Rubi; and part on the authority of some English 

 botanists, who found their own views corroborated by those 

 authors. The alterations are considerable, but they are made 

 with peculiar sagacity; and if some of the younger naturalists 

 suffer inconvenience from the multiplication of species, they 

 will be compensated by the correctness of future combinations 

 to which this minute analysis necessarily leads. In these 

 difficult genera it is become doubly important to bring the 

 assimilated species together under some leading characters by 

 way of divisions, as the author has done, so that if the student 

 is not successful in determining the species, he may at least 

 discover its affinities. 



Since the former publications of Sir J. E. Smith the Potentilhe 

 have been elucidated by more than one Monograph appro- 

 priated to the subject. Like the Roses and the Brambles, they 

 are of difficult discrimination. P. aurea of E. B. is alpestris 

 of this work, a correction which has been suggested by M. 

 Haller jun. We are a little disappointed not to find the 

 P. vema of St. Vincent's Rocks, and other places, noticed as 

 a variety, at least, of the Suffolk plant. Fragaria sterilis is 

 removed to this genus, to which it more properly belongs than 

 to its former station. It would have comported with the views 

 also of many botanists, if the two states or varieties oiP.Jru- 

 iicosa had been pointed out to the attention of investigators. 

 The Teesdale plant seems to have been first discovered by 

 Thomas Willisel, as Ray informs us in his Letters, and bore 

 the name of " Eboracensis" among the old botanists. It was 

 at that time considered so great a rarity, or was so little under- 

 stood, that Ray published a plate of it in the second edition 

 of his Catalogue. A second figure was published in an early 

 volume of the Philosophical Transactions. Another state of the 

 plant is found at the Devil's Sledgegate, Wastedale Screes, 

 Cumberland, with broader, less revolute and less hairy leaves, 

 and with a different ramification ; and this appears to be the 

 plant known to foreigners, and to be the origin of our garden 

 variety. The plate in English Botany seems to be drawn 

 from a garden specimen, as we feel persuaded that all Tees- 

 dale would not furnish an example like it. The laborious and 

 critical Dr. Stokes records another habitat in his " Botanical 

 Materia Medica," among Limestone, on the Banks of Loch 

 Crib in the county of Galloway. Wade mentions other places 



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