392 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Phyllum, ete.—IIL. On the Selaginellas cultivated in the Royal Botanic eee. 
Edinburgh. By Dr. W. R. M‘Nab., e author gave a revision of the 
ginellas cultivated in the Edinburgh Botanie Garden, the Royal Caen 
ew, Messrs. Veitch and Sons’ Nursery, Chelsea, and Messrs. Jackson and 
Sons’ Nursery, Kingston, London. He pointed out the un that existed 
regarding the names of the different species, and gave a table of the synonyms 
species included in Braun’s list in cultivation in this count The paper was 
illustrated by dried specimens from the different collections examined.—III. 
New Localities for Rare Plants round Edinburgh. By John Sadler. Mr. 
Sadler read extracts from various letters he had lately received, recording new 
localities for some rare plants in the neighbourhood of Edinbur urgh. 1. Mr. 
John K. Duncanson collected Helminthia mie between snaps and 
Crombie Point; Meum athamanticu um, farm of Pitdinnie, near eyhill ; 
Convallaria inaliifoms, Ni SS alba, Pea lutea, and UE indir 08, 
near Valleyfield ; Hesperis matronalis and Malva moschata, south of Crossfo rd ; 
Corallorhiza innata, woods near Culross, abundant; Lysimachia nummularia 
and — maculatum, near Dunfermline. 2. Mr. William Craig rane 
m viride from the South Medwyn, where s had met with it in co: 
idoneis abundance in September last; also Carduus heterophyllus, and other 
species, from the same locality. 3. Mr. M‘Farlan had gathered several p 
of Lathyrus Aphaca, by ne side of the Old Scone Road, about a een 
Perth. 4. Mr. John Sim intimated the discovery of Sanguisorba anirai 
about a mile east of Perth. 5. Mr. P. N. Fraser reported Adlosorus erispus, 
from Dunearn Hill. 6. Mr. Alexander Buchan sent specimens of Centunculus 
minimus, from Little Cumbrae. Specimens of the abov. 
a letter : *Ihave been rather amused 
to observe the does came GE by various writers in 
regard to white spots on the oran fruit of this Passiflora.” 
this fruit, during a ifeti he ‘seen m 
detected a white spot on any one of them. With to Passiflora 
carpa, he questions the statements made of its’ being a new fruit, being of obi- 
nion that.it is neither more nor less than the true P. . qu adrangularis, with 
untry 
species, much smaller-fraited, and such as | he has seen imported from 
Madeira. Mr. John Bisset, of Keith, sent specimens of Brachypodium pin- 
