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very widely scattered over the large islands ; Adiantum Capillm- Veneris, 
officinalis 
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deficiency in this respect in the 'Cybele.' On the exposed western 
side of the island many ordinarily-met-with plants were remarkable for 
their peculiar stunted growth. Thus, the Samphire, which grew in the 
greatest abundance, was found in full flower, and yet hundreds of the 
plants were not more than 3 inches in height, and plants of Sedum 
Modiola were met with scarcely more than 2 inches in height. In 
all such cases the plants were growing in the chinks between the 
stones. A dwarfed condition of growth was not, however, by any 
means the rule, for under favourable conditions fronds of the Maiden- 
hair Fern were found 20 inches in length. Several specimens of Ver- 
bascum Thapsus were met with nearly 5 feet high, and in one instance a 
cluster of that fine Thistle, Sllybum Marianum, was seen, three or four 
of the flowering stalks of which were 5 feet 4 inches in height. Dr. 
Wright next proceeded to contrast the flora of the Arran Islands 
with that of the coast of Clare, referring to Mr. Foot's very interest- 
ing paper on the Bun-en flora, in the Transactions of the Eoyal Irish 
Academy, for this purpose, and suggested that the general affinity of 
the flora was rather to the Clare than to the Galway coast. This would 
at first sight be expected, seeing that Arran is, geologically speaking, 
but an extension of Clare. Almost every plant met with on the islands 
is met with in the Burren district, and vice versa, whereas many plants 
are met with in the Connemara district, which arc not found either in 
Clare or Arran. 
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of the Flower inn Plants, Ferns, and Mosses 
mediate neighbourhood of Andover. By C. B. Clarke.— Price 
Threepence. Calcutta : R. Dean, Calcutta Central Press Company, 
Limited, 5, Council House Street. 1866. 
The title-page of this publication is copied in full above, as being 
not the least curious page of a book which contains sundry other pages 
and paragraphs, in themselves curious even to serio-comicality. 
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