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and generally all are thus arranged. About the borders of a pasture 
between Lopwell and Dedham Bridge, I found eight of these hybrids 
in May, 1868, and there, as at Maristowe, Primula veris grows plenti- 
fully. 
Daphne Laureola, L. Very rare near Plymouth. In a wood, on 
limestone, between Puslinch Bridge and Yealmpton. A single bush 
in a wood at Torr on the other side of the valley. 
Polygonatum multiflorum, All. In the wood near Yealmpton that 
produces Hypericum hirsutum and Daphne Laureola. Scattered all 
over a large wood on limestone at Torr, on the left bank of the Yealm, 
growing with Ranunculus auricomus, L.; Lamium Galeobdolon, Crantz ; 
Listera ovata, Br.; Allium ursinum; etc., and apparently truly wild. 
The places mentioned above are in Devon when the county is not 
named, 
4, Portland Villas, Plymouth, June 10, 1868. 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CHINESE LARKSPUR. 
By H. F. Hance, PH.D., ETC.. 
wn Delphinium (Delphinastrum) anthriscifolium, n. sp. ; radice fibrosa: 
caule erecto flexuoso simplici minute puberulo, petiolis longis basi di- 
latatis, foliis membranaceis minute puberulis bipinnatisectis laciniis 
ineisis, bracteis inferioribus plerumque incisis supremis bracteolisque 
linearibus, racemis subsimplicibus, floribus pedunculo eequilongo suf- 
fultis albo cæruleoque pictis sepalis petalisque subzequalibus petalis 
posticis ambitu subdolabriformibus oblique bilobis anticis omnino im- 
 berbibus bifidis calcare rectiuseulo sepala oblonga paulo superante 
apice sepius bidentato, follieulis ternis inflatis glabris divergentibus 
stylo iis 5-plo breviore superatis, seminibus cochlidiomorphis fuscis 
lamelloso-annulatis annulis striolatis.—In ins. Silver Island, prope 
Chin-kiang, Maio 1863 detexit Hay; in alluviis fl. West River, prov. 
Cantoniensis, circ. 100 mill. pass. occidentem versus ab urbe, Junio 
1865, necnon prope rupem calcaream Kai-kun-shek, secus eundem 
fluvium, Junio 1867 coll. indefessus Sampson. (Exsice. n. 10125.) 
I cannot point out any near relative of this interesting plant, which 
is readily distinguishable in its section by the beardless petals and 
