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With regard to the distribution of the plants under review, if I am 

 correct in my surmises, founded on my own gatherings, CE. Lachenalii 

 will be found pretty generally located in the salt marshes of the coast, 

 as well as in deep, muddy ditches of the interior, and according to 

 Smith, on Mr. Mackay's authority (but mistaken for CE. pimpinel- 

 loides) extending far into Scotland. Mr. Ball states that he has re- 

 ceived it from the coast of Galloway, one of the localities Smith men- 

 tions. I have myself observed it on the Welsh coast, from Swansea 

 to Borth morass, six miles north of Aberystwith. CE. peucedanifolia 

 is certainly principally a denizen of marshes in the interior country, 

 and thus in the midland counties it is of more frequent occurrence 

 than either of the other species here mentioned, though not so abun- 

 dant in its localities. I find it rather plentiftil in Gloucestershire and 

 Worcestershire. CE. pimpinelloides appears to be truly local, though 

 abundantly developed where it does occur, at least in favourable sea- 

 sons. My friend, the Rev. A Bloxam, who has botanized extensively 

 in Leicestershire, tells me he has never seen it there, and I have not 

 detected it in any of my excursions in Wales. It is absent also from 

 the Rev. W. A. Leighton's * Flora of Shropshire.' Yet in the dry, 

 hilly meadows about Powick and Maddresfield, towards the Malvern 

 Hills, Worcestershire, it luxuriates on the red marl, and on the same 

 soil at Forthampton, Gloucestershire. The true plant has also been 

 shown me by Mr. Buckman, of Cheltenham, growing at Marl Hill, 

 near that town. It will now probably be found in other dry, inland 

 spots when diligently sought. 



Edwin Lees. 



P. S. — On the words " all uniformly slender and vermiform " at 

 the bottom of page 358. 



I can find no difierence in this respect in the youngest or oldest 

 plants, except in the greater thickness of the tubercles in the latter. 

 The more robust the plant, the thicker and longer are the tubercles, 

 but they never assume the appearance of those of CE. pimpinelloides. 



E. L. 



Henwick, near Worcester, 

 September 23, 1845. 



