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naked, subpauiculate racemes, pedicels thicker, more or less recurved, 
and only twice or thrice as long as the calyx, the lobes of which are 
much broader. In E. radicate, on the other hand, the leaves are ovate- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, and with the stem strigosely hispid, the ra- 
cemes are simple, very sparsely and distantly flowered, and, as remarked 
by Kegel (Tent. Fl. Ussur. 108), leafy, the pedicels are thinner, as- 
cending, four or five times the length of the calyx, the lobes of which 
are lanceolate. I do not think, taking these characters into considera- 
tion, and especially the marked difference in the racemes,— in one per- 
fectly naked, in the other leafy to the apex,— that there can be any 
doubt of their distinctness. Hegel's figures of E. radkans (op. cit. 
t. ix.) are very characteristic. 
EUROPEAN PLANTS FOR AUSTRALIA. 
We desire to call the attention of our readers to a request which we 
have received from our correspondent Dr. F. Mueller, of the Mel- 
bourne Botanic Gardens, in the hope that without much effort in their 
botanical excursions some may be able to further the object which he 
has in view. He writes :— " I should like to introduce not only to 
the Lagoon in our botanic gardens and its banks but also to suitable 
localities in our mountain glens, lakes, etc., some of the very orna- 
mental European swamp and other plants of the kinds mentioned 
below or of others of similar habits. May I therefore ask your kind 
assistance in begging you to collect for me, during your excursions, 
seeds (or EviAg plants, if readily available), and forward them by one 
of the fast-sailing vessels to my address. In exchange I shall be mos 
happy to send to you seeds of our beautiful Australian plants, 
indicate the class of plants specially referred to, I would name the 
following, and must leave it to you to add such others as you may have 
an opportunity to procure : 
Lychnis Flos-cuculi, L. 
Lysimaehia tliyrsiflora, L. 
L. vulgaris, L. 
Hottonia palustris, L. 
Ciraea Lutetiana, X. 
Paris quadrifolia, L. 
Glaus maritima, L. \ 
B atom us umbelhitus, L. 
Sagittaria sagittifolia, L. 
Menyanthes trifoliata, L. 
Parnassia palustris, L. 
Stratiotes aloides, L. 
Pinguicula vulgaris, L., etc 
