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tonshire Field Club, we had the pleasure of receiving from the neighbourhood 
of Newark, but on the Lincolnshire side of the boundary, an undoubted speci- 
men of the true A. carinatum, as figured by Kedoute and Reichenbach, charac- 
terized not only by its lilac flowers, with the concave connivent divisions of the 
perianth, but by the exserted stamens. We at first referred it to A. Jlexum, 
Kitaibel, of which we had a fresh specimen, but that is very properly reduced 
by Koch to A. carinatum, of which it is merely a narrow-leaved form. We have 
lately received a tuft, consisting of more than twenty specimens, growing on 
sandy, wet soil, mixed with a little lime, amongst Rushes and coarse Grass. 
The plant was found by the Rev. W. T. Hampton, Rector of Stubton, between 
Brandon and Doddington. A. oleraceum extends eastward as far as Beluchi- 
stan, but A. carinatum is not an Indian plant, though it probably extends be- 
yond Hungary.— Rev. M. J. Berkeley m Gardener's Chronicle, 1867, p. 973. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Dr. Beigel has discovered another new species of Alga on the human body ; 
this time on the ear. Full particulars and illustrations of it will be published 
in the ' Nova Acta.' 
We regret to learn that Mr. Hemsley has been obliged by ill-health to re- 
sign his situation as assistant at the Kew Herbarium, and trust that in consi- 
deration of his services, some strong influence will be brought to bear upon Go- 
vernment to grant him a pension. Whilst hoping that Mr. Hemsley's timely re- 
moval from a place which has killed three of his predecessors, — Stevens, Black, 
and Smith, all young men like himself, — may be the means of restoring lilfl 
shattered constitution, we trust that the cause of such repeated misfortune 
m *J be closely investigated. Is it from inhaling the poison employed in the 
herbarium, and the long hours that these assistants are employed in clamp chilly 
rooms, that these fatal results are brought about, or what is it ? 
A new edition of Professor Asa Gray's ' Manual of the Botany of the Northern 
United States,' with 20 plates and analytical tables, has just been published. The 
great value of the work is ensured by the eminent name of its author. 
Dr. Thwaites, Director of the Botanic Gardens of Peradenia, Ceylon, is 
about to return home, his health beginning to fail. 
Ths Botanical Society of Canada is about to resume the publication of its 
'Annals.' Botanists desirous of subscribing to this periodical may do so 
*>y paying four shillings annually. All communications are to be addressed to 
Dr. Lawson, LL.D., Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
Dr. Caspary, of Konigsberg, informs us that he has been this summer in the 
Black Forest and the Department of Les Vosges, with the view oi studying the 
different forms of Nuphar, amongst which he found several undescribed ones. 
J n Lake Longemer (Dep. des Vosg. <) he met with Subularia aquatica, which 
w *s growing there together with Isoetes echinospora and /. lacustru, thus d^- 
Pelling any doubts about the plant being indigenous to France. 
Dr. Cams has convoked meetings of the Adjuncts of the Imperial German 
