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Mr. Eclmomhton s Appointment to the Harold. 



Since the foregoing paragraphs were penned, our correspondent, 

 Mr. Edmondston, has sailed in the surveying-ship, Harold, bound 

 for the west coast of North America, Knowing his zeal, industry and 

 ability in the cause of Phytology, we anticipate great results from his 

 appointment as Naturalist to the Expedition. Most heartily do we 

 return the good wishes he bequeaths us as a parting legacy : may suc- 

 cess attend his exertions, and may they prove equally advantageous 

 to science and honorable to himself! The Californian plants which 

 have hitherto reached this country through other channels, give pro- 

 mise of a plentiful harvest still to be reaped ; and with youth, health 

 and energy on his side, we can scarcely point to an individual so well 

 fitted as Mr. Edmondston for such an undertaking. 



Discovery of Lychnis alpina in England. By Richard Matthews, 



Esq. 



Having nowhere seen Lychnis alpina recorded as a native of Cum- 

 berland, I send you a specimen of that plant, which was gathered in 

 a narrow and deep ravine of Hobeartin Fell, a clay-slate mountain, 

 which rises from the Vale of Lorton. When found, it was growing at 

 an elevation of about 2,000 feet, and had done flowering ; but being- 

 preserved, and planted in my garden, it produced the head of flowers 

 which I now inclose, thus affording an instance that Lychnis alpina 

 inhabits the mountains of Cumberland. Richard Matthews. 



Wigton Hall, May 26, 1845. 



Notice of the ' London Journal of Botany.'' No. 40, April, 1845. 



The first paper in this number is a valuable communication by Mr. 

 R. Spruce, headed, * On some Mosses new to the British Flora.' It 

 contains descriptions of twenty-three mosses apparently new to Bri- 

 tain (four of which are now for the first time described), together with 

 remarks on their affinities, synonymy, and other particulars. We give 

 translations of the characters of such as do not seem to have been 

 previously published. 



1. Bryum erythrocarpon, Schwaegr. 



Moist sandy stubbles between Barmby and Woodhouse Moors, near 

 Pocklington, Yorkshire ; Stockton Forest. 



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