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he Amfezzo route, I met a priest, a botanist, who gave me a specimen of 
Y glabella, which he had that year for the first time found in Sextenthal, but 
failed afterwards to procure a copy at Botzen and at Innspruck, but, to the 
best of my recollection, the notice in the * Supplement’ stated that Baron 
Hausmann found Woodsia glabella for the first time himself in 1860 or 1861 
in Bragsthal, and that his specimens had been compared in Berlin with au- 
thentie ones of W. glabella brought by Sir J. Richardson from North Ame- 
rica, and found identical. Lately I compared my Plecken specimens with 
that from Sexten, and with a frond from the west coast of Davis's Straits; and 
the suspicion then excited was reduced to certainty the other day, when Mr. 
arruthers enabled me to compare both with two fronds of W. glabella brought 
by Sir J. Richardson from Great Bear Lake. If these comparisons be correct 
we have W. glabella from the Bragsthal and Sextenthal in Tyrol, about five 
miles apart, in Dolomite ; and at Plecken in Carinthia, about twenty miles fur- 
ther eastward; along the same line of ridge, but on Kalk of the Carbonifcrous 
formation. . 
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id Run shes the Assam Tea uns By J. W. Masters. Folio, 
pp. 30... Golaghat. 1863. 
Me Masters’ devotion to the cause of botany in the Calcutta Bo- 
tanic Gardens, and his diligence as a collector in Assam, have long 
been known to botanists. The above-named Report, comprising his 
journal of a tour through the Tea plantations of Assam, was present 
to the Indian Government, with a view to its publication in the Trans- 
actions of the Horticultural Society of India. It is prefaced by a 
letter, from Major W. Agnew, the officiating Commissioner of As- 
sam, to the Secretary to the Government of Brazil, which bears 
ample testimony to the publie: spirit and: disinterested zeal of Mr. 
Masters,.»From this preface it appears that the object Mr. Masters 
had in. view, in undertaking what is termed **a most laborious journey 
at the worst season’ of the year,” was to collect all the information he 
could respecting the Tea-plant, and the conditions under which it grew. 
o attain this end he consulted meteorological registers, endeavoured 
to. ascertain what effect cultivation has had upon the Tea-plant, to de- 
termine which are the best varieties to cultivate for the manufacture, 
what, kind of soil is most. suitable for the plant in general, as well as 
that adapted for any particular variety ; to discover the best method 
