92 CORRESPONDENCE. 
"NOTE ON FLOR# SARNICAS. 
I had the pleasure of finding, in the month of June last, the pretty 
little Orchis Spiranthes estivalis, Rich., in Guernsey, at an unpublished 
locality, under the guidance of Mr. G. Wolsey, who discovered the 
Isoëtes Hystrix, Dur. in that island. It grows rather plentifully in 
the swamp at the Grande Mare, in company with Cyperus longus, L., 
Pyrola rotundifolia, L., and Osmunda regalis, L. I searched Perelle 
Bay the same day for Euphorbia Peplis, L., as Mr. Wolsey said that he 
had gathered a plant of it there in the season of 1861, but without suc- 
cess, L'Ancresse Common yielded us Isoétes Hystriv, Dur., Ononis recli- 
nata, L., and Arthrolobium ebracteatum, De Cand. ; the latter two very 
sparingly. The only other plant of interest which I found in Guernsey 
was Allium Ampeloprasum, L., at the station near the Artillery Barracks, 
recorded in Professor Babington's Flora. The head-bulbs are present 
in the only specimen I have preserved, and are equal in size to those in 
a specimen of Allium Babingtonii, Borr., which I have from the garden 
of the lamented Mr. W. Borrer. I have placed some of the roots which 
I brought away, under cultivation in our Botanieal Gardens here, and 
next year will perhaps show to what extent the head-bulbs may be re- 
garded as a diagnostic between these two critical species. 
F. A. HANBURY. 
Queens’ College, Cambridge. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
On Tecophileacee, anew Natural Order of Monocotyledonous Plants. 
Hammersmith, 28th Feb., 1863. 
SIR me to state my reasons for objecting to the new Natural 
Order (Tecophileacea) proposed in your Journal (p. 9) by Dr. Leybold of San- 
tiago. The type of the violeflora, a plant with 
which I am extremely well ‘Soquainied, being fund at Concon, where fo rty years 
ago I made drawings and analyses from the living plant. It was first men- 
tioned by me in 1825, in my ‘Travels in Chile,’ under the name of Distrepta 
vaginata ; and when in England in that year I showed these drawings to the late 
Mr. Robert Brown, Dr. Lindley, and other botanists. Bertero collected it at the 
same place a few years afterwards, and gave a detailed description of it to Colla, | 
