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common to all these countries, was found here in many places. The 
other branches of Cryptogamic: ed) I had no time to investigate, 
but the Mosses and Jz tively scarce. Lichens, 
particularly the larger kinds, such as qoare and Sticta, were very 
frequeut on both rocks and trees on the higher grounds. Along the 
coast, and washed ashore, were numerous kinds of Seaweed, but they 
appeared to be principally small fucoid forms, intermixed with a few 
filamentous kinds. 
To those acquainted with the botany of Australia and adjoining 
islands it will be apparent, from the sketch here given, that the plants 
at this island more nearly resemble those of Norfolk Island, from 
which it is distant some 500 miles, than those of any other country. 
The Leptospermum aud Melaleuca are almost the only plants which link 
its flora with that of Australia, all the other kiuds being chiefly types 
of genera found on Norfolk Island. This resemblance will be more 
clearly indicated when, at some future time, I shall give a detailed 
account of all the plants observed and collected during my three days’ 
sojourn upon this interesting little island.— Gardeners Chronicle. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The British Rubi; an Attempt to discriminate the Species of Rubus 
known to inhabit the British Isles. By Professor BABINGTON. 
London: Van Voorst. 1869. 8vo, pp. 305. 
Essai Monographique sur les Rubus du Bassin de la Loire. Par L. 
Gaston GENEVIER. Angers: Imprimerie Lachese. 1869. 8vo, 
pp. 343. 
The two last years have been fertile in Bramble literature; for 
besides the appearance in Germany of Kuntze’s ‘Reform Deutscher - 
Brombeeren,’ both in England and France the two botanists who have 
devoted themselves to the monographie study of the Brambles of their 
respective countries, have both published, in full detail, the result of 
their labours. 
It is now more than a quarter of a century since Professor Babington 
first treated upon the British Rybi in the original edition of his 
* Manual,’ and twenty-three years since he elaborated them fully in his 
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