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Note on the rediscovery of Malaxis paludosa at Tonhrklge Wells. 

 By Mr. Edward Jenner, A.L.S. 



May I be allowed to add a few words to Mr. Sharp's paper on this 

 subject in your last number, (Phytol. ii. 42). Malaxis paludosa must 

 be considered as a rare plant in the South of England. I am ac- 

 quainted with only four habitats in Sussex, namely, Chiltington Com- 

 mon near Pulborough, where the late Mr. Dickson found it long ago, 

 and where it still exists ; two stations on Ashdown Forest ; and the 

 one mentioned by Mr. Sharp, where I saw it growing in September 

 last. I have never heard of a single locality in Surrey, or in Kent, 

 since the time of Ray, when it is said to have been found in Romney 

 Marsh. 



To an ardent botanist — a true lover of Nature — there is doubt- 

 less unspeakable pleasure in finding a new station for a rare plant ; 

 but how much greater to such a one the pleasure in seeing, season 

 after season, a rare or interesting plant in its native habitation ! I am 

 therefore by no means surprized at the rapturous exclamation of Mr. 

 Sharp, at the rediscovery of Ray's habitat for the Malaxis. 



Edward Jenner. 

 Lewes, December 17, 1844. 



Notice of the ^Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh,^ 

 Vol. i. part iii. Edinburgh : Maclachlan & Co, London : H. 

 Bailliere, and W. Pamplin. 1844. 



Any detailed notice of this part of the Transactions (which com- 

 pletes the 1st vol.) is rendered unnecessary by the ample Reports of 

 the Society's Proceedings, which now appear in our pages. We 

 have, however, marked a few particulars, not noticed in the Proceed- 

 ings, which we trust will not be uninteresting to our readers. 



The first article in the part before us is the paper on the Vegetation 

 of the Outer Hebrides, by Prof Balfour and Mr. Babington, previ- 

 ously noticed, (Phytol. i. 135). The value of this contribution to sci- 

 ence will be understood, when it is considered that so little had this 

 group been explored with regard to its botanical productions, that 

 " not a single reference to them appears in Mr. Watson's ' New Bota- 

 nist's Guide.' Indeed, it would seem that a considerable portion of 

 the group, is almost a terra incognita, not only to botanists, but to 



