92 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Adonis flammea, Adonis autumnalis, Neslia paniculata, Colutea arbo- 
rescens, Vicia villosa, Asperula glauca, Crepis pulchra, Verbascum 
pulverulentum, Rumex aquaticus, Rumex maximus, Stellera Passerina, 
Taxus baccata, Orchis palustris, Potamogeton mucronatus, Corallorhiza 
innata, Carex dioica, Carex paradoxa, Carex ornithopoda, Carex depau- 
perata, Glyceria Borreri, Aspidium Lonchitis, Chara Braunit. 
All these are fully characterized, the critical species being described 
and compared with their allies with great care and minuteness ; and in 
addition to this nearly seventy other species are enumerated, which are 
rare in Belgium, on the local distribution of which the excursions of 
1865 have thrown new light. Considering the feebleness of the boreal or 
alpine element in the Belgian flora, we may consider Aspidium Lon- 
chitis and Corallorhiza the most interesting of the additions. They 
have both been met with in the Ardennes, where they are associated 
with Lycopodium alpinum and Allosorus crispus. Of the former only 
a single tuft has been gathered, at an elevation, if we understand M. 
Crépin correctly, of 250 metres above sea-level. Potamogeton mucro- 
matus is our compressus. Chara Braunii (C. coronata, A. Braun) is 
known in every continent except Australia, and in Western Europe is 
diffused from Finland southward to Spain and Corsica, so that it may 
reasonably be expected in Britain. It is characterized by stem and 
rays formed of simple tubes and upper articulations terminated by 
numerous points. In a supplementary paper on the European Gly- 
ceria, M. Crépin proposes two new species, both from the shores of 
the Mediterranean, which he names expansa and pseudo-distans. The 
six plates are entirely devoted to the illustration of this genus. Our 
G. Borreri M. Crépin has found in Belgium abundantly, not only on 
the seashore, but also in sandy ground inland, and recognizes as a 
fully distinct species. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Mr. Hemsley, of Kew, is now collecting materials for a flora of his native 
county, Sussex, and would feel thankful to resident botanists for — — 
.. lists and specimens of critical plants. Communications should be 
. him at Kew, W.; and as a certain number of subscribers de: br 
fore any final arrangement can be made for publication, we trust our British. 
. botanists will not fail to encourage him by sending in their names 
prato dad icta being signed by botanists to urge upon Go- 
