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of the rocks, and with no other shelter than a parapet wall just high 

 enough to ensure the safety of my younger pupils. (Aspect S.W.) 



It is one of the marked peculiarities of the Torbay district, that not 

 only ordinary trees, but many evergreens, thrive almost within a 

 stone's cast of the high-water mark. I believe the same circumstance 

 is observable on some parts of the sea-coast near the town of Wex- 

 ford, Ireland. In noting the distribution of plants, it might be wor- 

 thy of inquiry, what varieties marked localities favourable to health, 

 and the reverse. 



Nov. 26. I beg to inclose a wild strawberry which was found in a 

 wood near Torquay, yesterday, weighing, when pulled, including the 

 stalk, rather more than fifteen grains (Troy). Had it been discovered 

 in a cultivated state, and in a sheltered garden, I should not have 

 been so much sui"prised. I add blossoms of the Gum Cistus, wall- 

 flower, privet, &c., which I pulled on an open terrace, in my exposed 

 sea-side garden this morning, although there was a smart hoar frost 

 over-night. For the strawberry, I am indebted to Mr. W. Pengelly, 

 the very able master of the Pestalozzian day-school, Torquay. 



John A. Walker. 



Cliff House, Torquay, Devon, 

 Nov. 26, 1844. 



Note on the supposed Equisetum limosum of Linn ens. 

 By Edward Newman, F.L.S. 



I HAVE received several letters respecting this plant, and much 

 regret that I am still unable to give any satisfactory information 

 respecting it. Mr. S. P. Woodward (Phytol. i. 878) speaks of an 

 Irish Equisetum, as "in the hands of Mr. Newman to name;" and 

 this perhaps has led some of the readers of the 'Phytologist' to anti- 

 cipate seeing, in the pages of that work, a figure and description of 

 an additional British species of Equisetum ; but I have no materials 

 in my hands that w^ill enable me to decide whether this supposed 

 species is really distinct from that already described under the name 

 of E. fluviatile. The facts of the case are these : when giving a 

 good deal of attention to the interesting task of discriminating the 

 confused species of Lastrsea, I wrote to Dr. Taylor, hoping that spe- 

 cimens from his neighbourhood, and his excellent judgment, might 

 throw some light on the subject. In the letter containing Dr. 

 Taylor's reply were contained fragments of a large Equisetum, but 

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