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grain, that in the present prices of these staple articles of food we 

 may hope to find a partial and gradual recompence for the past suf- 

 fering, and a return of that spirit of active and energetic though 

 prudent enterprise which has so long been the ornament of the British 

 Empire. 



The records of the present year which appear of most interest to 

 British botanists are the following : — 



Asparagus officinalis, Phytol. ii. 726. The Rev. C. A. Johns 

 records several new stations for this extremely local plant, 

 removing all probability of its being exterminated by botanists 

 or guides. 



Pyrola maritima, ii. 727, is nothing more than P. rotundifolia; the 

 Lancashire plant described by Mr. Kenyon is an old discovery, 

 and noticed in the ' New Botanist's Guide,' vol. i., under 

 the head ' Lancashire.' 



Thorea Q-amosissima, ii. 806. Mr. William M'lvor, of the Kew 

 Gardens, has discovered this Alga in the bed of the river 

 Thames, above Walton Bridge ; it grows most abundantly, 

 and is exposed to view at low water. 



Thesium linophyllum, ii. 807. Mr. Mitten's paper on this plant 

 is of great interest : he finds its roots parasitically attached to 

 those of Anthyllis vulneraria. Thymus Serpyllum, Lotus comi- 

 culatus, Daucus Carota, Scabiosa succisa, Carex glauca, and 

 some grasses. 



Luziila nivea, ii. 814. At a meeting of the Botanical Society of 

 Edinburgh, Dr. Balfour announced that this plant, discovered 

 last year in a wood near Broomhall, had been planted there 

 by a gardener, so that it can have no claim to rank as a 

 British plant. 



Lycopodium annotinum, ii. 824 and ii. 972. The Rev. Robert 

 Rolleston has found this very local species in Langdale, 

 and Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith on one of the precipitous 

 sides of Bow-Fell, Cumberland. Both specimens are un- 

 questionably correctly named. 



