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a (concluding?) continnation of the elaborate "Notes on Mimosas," 

 by Mr. Bentluim. The last article commences another paper on the 

 South African journey of C. L. Zeyher, the fellow-traveller of Burke. 



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On the occurrence of Ranunculus Lenormandi in Westmoreland. 

 By C. Cardale Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



In the last number of the ' Phytologist ' (Phytol. ii. 423) Mr. James 

 Backhouse mentioned his having found, near Coniston Water, a 

 Ranunculus, which he named R. hederaceus, &. grandijlorus, of my 

 Manual. 



I have recently obtained, through his kindness, a specimen of the 

 plant, and have the satisfaction of stating that it is the R. Lenormandi 

 of F. W. Schultz, which is well figured in the ' Atlas de la Flore des 

 Environs de Paris' (tab. 1, f. 3, 4), of Cosson and Germain. The first 

 notice of it as a native of Britain is in the ' Annals of Natural His- 

 tory,' xvi. 141. 



I have now seen it from Westmoreland, Staffordshire, Leicester- 

 shire, and Devonshire, and I believe that Mr. Boner has found it in 

 Sussex. It differs from R. hederaceus in the form of its carpels : in 

 this they are obovale, and tipped with a terminal style ; in R. hedera- 

 ceus they are obtuse, and have a lateral ascending style. It has also 

 much broader and scarcely at all adnate stipules, whilst those in its 

 ally are adnate nearly throughout. This plant will probably prove to 

 be common in Britain now that attention has been drawn to it. 



C. C. Babington. 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 February 12, 1846. 



Early Flowering of Plants, in 1846. By Peter Inchbald, Esq. 



Among the phajnogamous plants I have noticed in my walks during 

 the month of January, there are some few which I think you may con- 

 sider worth recording in the pages of the ' Phytologist,' as a proof of 

 the mildness of the season. I have given some attention to Botany 

 during several years, but I never remember vegetation to have made 

 such rapid advances in January of any former year. I have gathered 

 between thirty and forty flowers in the past month, exotic and native, 



