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rately small obovate or dish leaflets with shallow teeth, smaller flowers 
with either four or five petals on the same plant, and striated carpels. But if 
abortive. I refer to this species the T. reptans, Lejeune! Fl. de Spa, p. 236; 
that of Bastard! Suppl. Fl. M. and L. p. 10; that of Lloyd, Fl. Loire-Infér. 
p. 82; and that of Thomas! from Belpe, near Berne, a station quoted by Koch 
for his P. procumbens. ¥ 
“3. P. mixta, Nolte, in Reich. Herb. Norm. n. 1743; Koch, Syn. ed. 2, 
P En Boreau, Fl. Cent. ed. 2, n. 636. P. procumbens, Boreau, Fl. Cent. 
. 790. 
which does not appear to me to be a distinct species, differs from the precedin 
only by its more robust proportions, its stem-leaves more frequently quinate 
ish. Th 
ity, and to make of P. mixta P. procumbenti-reptans, Lehm., for, if as I be- 
` lieve, the true P. procumbens, Sibth., does not occur with us, it would be diffi- 
“4. P. Salisii, Boreau. P. nemoralis, De Salis. Tormentilla reptans, var. 
humilis, Bertol. Fl. Ital. v. p.285.—This differs from the preceding by the slender. 
ness of all its parts, except the root, which is woody and elongated. The stalked 
leaves have mostly five obovate leaflets, which, even in luxuriant plants are still 
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gathered by M. Revelidre belong to the same, the flowers are mu 
in the preceding, and the petals are entire. It grows 
Corsica.” 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The issue of Syme’ Pa English Botany is steadily progressing, and we have 
now before us the first volume (elegantly bound) of this great work, contain- 
ing coloured plates and descriptions of all the Ranunculacee, Berberidea, Nym- 
Pheacee, Papaveracee, and Crucifere indigenous to Great Britain, with 
charming popular accounts of the folk-lore, uses, history, etc., of these plants, 
from the pen of Mrs. Lankester. 
M. J. Gay has been to the sou : 
has found two new stations of this plant in addition to the one previo 
in the country 
th-west of France after Isoëtes Boryana, and 
usly known 
