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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Arenaria montana, Linn. 
My friend Mr. E. Penfold, of Worcester College, Oxford, showed me in the 
early part of last year specimens of Arenaria montana, which he found in some 
abundance among furze on Wimbledon Common, Surrey. He gave me nume- 
rous specimens, some of which have been sent to the Thirsk Club. 
It was first noticed more than seven years ago by Mr. G. F. Pollock, who 
. remarks, in litt., that it grew then quite as abundantly as now, and was shown 
him in a recent state to Dr. Gray at the British Museum, who named it 
instantly. Mr. Pollock thought that the seed had been wheeled out with gar- 
den rubbish. It is perhaps more likely that, like Claytonia perfoliata, its seed 
was brought with grain to the mill on the common. I cannot find any notice 
of its previous occurrence as an introduced plant. It may be perhaps expected 
to establish itself, as it occurs in similar situations in Western France, and 
indeed through the whole of Western Europe. 
W. THISTLETON DYER. 
Christchurch, Oxford. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Genera of Plants. By Richard Anthony Salisbury, F.R.S., ete. 
A Fragment, containing part of the Liriogame. London: 1866. 
Pp. 143. 
Richard Anthony Salisbury was unquestionably one of the most re- 
markable and distinguished among the botanists of the end of the last 
century and of the commencement of the present. In the preface to 
his * Regni Vegetabilis Systema Naturale, De Candolle describes him 
as “ordinum naturalium susceptique nostri fautor acerrimus." He 
was, in fact, one of the earliest botanists of this country to lay aside 
the trammels of the artificial system of Linnæus, and to adopt instead 
the natural method of Jussieu, of whom he became an ardent and de- 
voted follower. The great object of his life was to revise the whole of 
the Natural Orders of plants, and to publish a ‘Genera Plantarum,’ 
founded, as far as possible, on original observations, and adapted to 
what he considered to be the demands of a more advanced state of the 
i He died in 1829, leaving behind him a large amount of ma- 
terial accumulated with a view to this publication, which he bequeathed, 
together with a considerable part of his property, to the late celebrated 
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