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intercalating the Polypodie<B, A yiew aclyanced thirty-six years ago cannot 
therefore be termed a new one. In 1828, at the time of the first publication of 
this new arrangement, the relationship of HymenophylUa to the Repaticm was 
clearly indicated, and may be called a natural one, because based upon a con- 
sideration of the -whole development of the HymenopJiyllece^ whilst their re- 
lation to the Bphagnem can only be termed an artificial one, based as it is 
upon a few characters unconnected with the morphological development. 
(A. W. in ^ Leopoldina,' Nov. 1864, p. 128.) 
A NEW Ameeicak Station fob Heather (CaZ/«na rwZ^aW^),— The New- 
foundland habitat of Calluna imlgaris {vide * Journal of Botany,' ii. 55) having 
been confirmed, we have now the pleasure to announce that Professor Lawson 
(late of King's College, Kingston, now of Dalhousie College, Halifax) has had 
the good fortune to bring to light a new locality from the island of Cape Breton. 
The flowering specimen which Professor Lawson sends us was collected, on the 
30th of August last, " in a wet, springy place, among Spruce stumps, in peaty 
soil, overlying clay, on the farm of Mr. Eobertson, St. Ann's, Inverness county, 
Cape Breton Island." He states that " it has been known there for ten years, 
having been noticed by a Higlilander when mowing, who immediately ran to 
his master, Mr. Eobertson, exclaiming, * I have found Heather.' Full inquiry 
into the whole circumstances leads me to the belief that the Calluna has not 
been planted at St. Ann's, but is a genuine native. There is only a small 
patch of it, not much than a yard across. , . . Its surroundings at St. Ann's are 
most appropriate. Both in scenery and vegetation tliere is striking resem- 
blance to the Scotch Highlands. Gaelic is the common language, and all the 
genuine manners and customs of the Highlanders are there." It is interesting 
to notice that the Hcatlier appears to be even more restricted in this new sta- 
tion than in that at Tewksbury, Mass., the indigenous character of which it 
helps to establish. We may now fairly infer that the Heather once flourished 
throughout our eastern borders, from Massachusetts to Newfoundland, but is 
verging to extinction, not being able to compete here with the rival claimants 
of the boggy soil. (A. Gray, in * SUliman's Journal/) 
NEW PUBLICATION. 
Plantm lAgnosm Imperii Aiisfriaci, Oi'sierreichs HolzpJIanzen, Von 
Dr. Alois Pockorny. Wien, 1864. 4to, pp. 524, with 1640 
Nature-printed Olnstrations. 
When it is practicable to make out and classify so many fossil plnnts 
from fra^ents of their leaves only, it must be still more practicable to 
determine living species from the same materials, and such bas been 
attempted by Dr. Pockomy, of Vienna. In the well-got-up volume 
now before us we have a complete enumeration and descnption of all 
