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rence (to 'English Botany' 347) for the latter, seem to imply a misno- 

 mer of Lachenalii. I am disposed to believe that the CEnanthe in- 

 crassans {Bory and Chauh.) is still only another name for the same 

 species. Assuming these ideas correct, the plant has been named 

 successively, pimpinelloides, peucedanifolia, silaifolia, incrassans and 

 Smithii, — without adding five other synonymes, which are given in 

 Steudel's Nomenclator. Hewett C. Watson. 



Thames Ditton, Feb. 12, 1845. 



Notice of Gardiner'' s ' Botanical Rambles in Braemar in 1844.' 

 Wm. Gardiner, Overgate, Dundee, 1845. 



We have great pleasure in recommending this little pamphlet to the 

 attention of our readers. Such of them as have participated in Mr. 

 Gardiner's annual distributions of the gems of the Scottish Flora, will 

 find in its pages a store of agreeable observations on the various inte- 

 resting localities wherein those treasures have been collected : to such 

 as have not hitherto made acquaintance with the author's valuable 

 packets of plants, it vi'iW exhibit a pleasing picture of the botanical 

 riches of a district abounding in scenery of the most splendid and ro- 

 mantic character. To the natural productions of one rich locality — 

 the Sands of Barrie — Mr. Gardiner would gladly devote a separate 

 treatise, provided he could obtain a sufficient number of subscribers 

 to defray the expense of printing. He also contemplates an exami- 

 nation, during the coming season, of several localities not visited by 

 him last year. We heartily wish Mr. G. every success in his literary 

 and scientific labours. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



February 7, 1845. Edward Doubleday, Esq., V.P., F.L.S., in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Edmondston presented specimens of the Shetland Ceras- 

 tium, which occasioned some discussion among British botanists in 

 the year 1843; Mr. E. then describing the plant as "a new British 

 Cerastium" (Phytol. i. 497), identical with the Linnaean C. latifolium, 

 but distinct from the Welch and Highland species, described under 

 that name in the works of Smith and other English authors. Although 

 differences of opinion were then stated respecting the Highland spe- 



