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en France," of Gardiner's ' Twenty Lessons on British Mosses,' and 

 of Harvey's ' Phycologia Britannica,' The Catalogue of Lobb's Java 

 plants will give some increased value to the sets ; though, as might 

 be expected, it is far from being a catalogue of the species, only the 

 name of the order or genus being mentioned for the greater number. 

 In describing his new genus, which is designated ' Purdicea,'' Dr. 

 Planchon suggests that the genus Sarracenia has an " immediate affi- 

 nity " with Pyrola. His views are not fully explained ; but it seems 

 that he regards Sarracenia, Pyrola, Monotropa, Dionsea and Drosera 

 as nearly allied genera, and therefore all closely related to Ericaceae, 

 with which it has been usual to associate two of them, namely, Py- 

 rola and Monotropa. In his new work, ' The Vegetable Kingdom,' Dr. 

 Lindley places Sarraceniacea^ between Papaveracea? and Ranuncula- 

 ceae. But in his ' Natural System,' dated in 1836, he had pointed out 

 the relationship of Sarracenia to Dionaea, which latter genus is refer- 

 red to Droseraceae in ' The Vegetable Kingdom.' After all, it is a 

 question of convenience or caprice, not of nature, whether Pyrola 

 should be associated more closely with Sarracenia or with Erica. 

 We can scarcely conceive any botanist bringing Sarraceniaceae into 

 the Erical alliance ; but we may more readily concur with those who 

 would remove Pyrolaceae and Monotropaceas therefrom, and associate 

 them with Droseraceae and Sarraceniaceae — an alliance of oddities. 



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Botanical Notes. By E. S. Wilson, Esq. 



Having paid some attention this year to the two allied species of 

 Cardaraine, hirsuta and sylvatica, I send you the following result of 

 my observations. 



Of a hundred specimens of C. hirsuta, gathered at different times, 

 and in various localities, eighty-seven had their stems and pods per- 

 fectly smooth ; eleven had them both hairy, and the remaining two 

 had the stems hairy and the pods smooth. Of the same number of 

 specimens of C. sylvatica, taken in the same way, not one had the 

 stems otherwise than hairy, nor the pods otherwise than glabrous. 



I have lately been made acquainted with a fact of some botanical 

 interest, which I will not suppress, though it seems to lead to no con- 

 clusion. About two miles from Congleton is the village of Danein- 

 shaw, so called from the little river of that name, which runs through 



