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no appearance of the Hippophae itself having been planted, and it is 
too widely spread to be considered an escape or the remains of former 
cultivation. It grows most luxuriantly and quite irregularly on the 
wild slopes of the sandhills close to the sea, and with plenty of seed- 
lings rising round the different patches. Miss Farmar has also ascer- 
tained that the plant has long been known to the inhabitants, who 
have always believed it truly wild. 
The locality is interesting as béing an outlying and apparently the 
most westerly station for a plant, the head-quarters of which appear to be 
on the shores of the North Sea and Baltic. In south France the Hip- 
pophae becomes subalpine, descending along the course of rivers to the 
sea, as seems to be the case also in Spain. It occurs in Normandy, 
but has not been observed on the Atlantic coasts of France or Portugal. 
In England Mr. Watson mentions five counties only, viz. Kent, Essex, 
Norfolk, Lincoln, and York. In Scotland it is believed to occur only 
where it has been planted. 
Glasnevin, July 14th, 1868. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
— 
Mr. Thomas P. James, the Seeretary of the American Philosophical So- 
ciety, has discovered the Journal of F, Pursh, the author of the *Flora of 
North America, which was found amongst Dr. Barton's papers, and is now 
publishing in the * Gardeners’ Monthly ’ of Philadelphia. It is an interesting 
relie. 
dromus,' has just been issued. It contains the Betulacee, by Regel; the Sa- 
licinee, by N. J. Andersson and Wesmsl; the Casuarinee, by Miquel; the 
cea, by : 
the Cycadee, Lacis ee, Gunnerea, Ancistrocladee, Dipterocarpee, Lo 
ogra Monimiacee, Crypteroniacee and Helwingiacee, by Alph. de Can 
olle. 
*Lichenes Cæsarienses et Sagiensis Exsiccati,’ by Charles Dubois Larbales- 
tier, B.A., St. John’s College, Cambridge, is the title of a dried collection of 
Lichens, of which the second fascicle (Nos. 51 to 100) has been issued. The 
title-page states that it was printed at Jersey, by G. F. Perrot, 19, Royal 
quare ; but no publisher or agent’s name is given. 
