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On the Country of Cliococca tenuifolia. By Charles C. Babing- 

 TON, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



I may state that our late curator, Mr. A. Biggs, always said that 

 the seeds of this plant were obtained from the interior of New Hol- 

 land, by a person who was not a botanist, and who was, at the time of 

 gathering them, far beyond the settled country in pursuit of bush-ran- 

 gers. At the time when I published the account of the genus Clio- 

 cocca, I had confidence in the correctness of Mr. Bigg's memory, but 

 he has since fallen into such a state of health that it becomes quite 

 possible that he may have committed an error, and that the seeds did 

 really come from S. America. 1 trust that this is a sufficient excuse 

 for my having fallen into an error, if that is the case. 



I have so great confidence in the opinion of Dr. Walker Arnott, 

 that T shall now believe that Cliococca tenuifolia and Linum selagi- 

 noides are very probably the same species. My description was 

 drawn from the living plant, and I therefore feel certain of its accu- 

 racy. Lamarck's plant may perhaps be another species of the new 

 genus to which some other Linea3 may be referable. These are 

 points which 1 most willingly leave in the very able hands of Dr. 

 Arnott. Charles C. Babington. 



St, John's College, Cambridge, 

 December, 1845. 



Corrections of various errors in Mr. Lees' paper on the (Enanthe 

 pimpinelloides, Lachenalii and silaifolia. By Hewett C. 

 Watson, Esq. 



With mingled surprise and regret 1 have read a paper from the 

 pen of Mr. Lees, in the December No. of the ' Phy tologist ' (Vol. ii, 

 pp. 354-365), upon the three species of QEnanthe which were so long 

 misunderstood and confused together in this country under the two 

 names of pimpinelloides and peucedanifolia. I was surprised to see 

 so much looseness of statement and positive error again brought into 

 the discussion, after the progress made by other botanists towards an 

 accurate elucidation of those plants. And 1 regretted to see the un- 

 friendly and ungenerous animus which too obviously urged on the 

 pen and distorted the writer's judgement ; and the effect of which is 

 far more likely to be felt in a recoil upon himself, than in any damage 

 to the individual against whom the battery was so awkwardly worked. 



