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the generic character ' ovarium 2-cellecl, fruit 2-cclled, 2-seeded.' 

 Such being the case in one species, it is inferred it must be equally 

 so in the other, and the flower being small and fruit rarely produced, 

 this is taken for granted. By taking it for granted botanists have 

 puzzled themselves in vain, for at least a century, to find good speci- 

 fic characters by which to distinguish them. The ovary at once sup- 

 plies this long-sought desideratum. Ovary 2-celled, C. lutetiana. 

 Ovary 1-cellecl, C. alpina." — Wight's Illustrations^ vol. ii. p. 23. 



New locality for Cyperus fuscus, Linn. By J. D. Salmon, Esq. 



This plant, for which the only hitherto recorded locality is the Eel 

 Brook meadow. Little Chelsea, near Walham-green, Middlesex, I 

 had yesterday the good fortune to discover in great plenty on the 

 margins of Peat-pond, on Shalford common, about two miles from 

 this place. Your coiTespondeut, Mr. Mill (Phytol. i. 146), who de- 

 feuds the practice of the dissemination of seeds of rare indigenous 

 plants, on the ground that some species may otherwise be lost to Bri- 

 tain, particularly mentions C. fuscus as likely to be destroyed by 

 the progress of cultivation or building. I am happy to be able to 

 allay such fears by the discovery of yesterday, the plants growing in 

 abundance, and in a situation not likely to be disturbed. Has Mr. 

 Mill or any other gentleman carried out the suggestion in the article 

 referred to, by introducing the plant here ? 



Since my notice of the 'Outlines of the Flora of Godalming' ap- 

 peared in the March number of the 'Phytologist' of the present year, 

 in addition to several new plants and stations, I beg to notice the oc- 

 currence of Equisetum hyemale in Wanborough wood, occupying an 

 extent of two or three acres. I should think this is the most south- 

 erly station for this species yet recorded in England. 



Jno. D. Salmon. 



Godalming, 17th August, 1846. 



Corrections of erroneous habitats given to British Plants. 

 By Edward Forster, Esq., V.P.L.S. 



I TRUST you will find room in your * Phytologist ' for the correction 

 of erroneous habitats which have been given to British plants. 



In Turner and Dillwyn's Guide, Crepis biennis and Crepis (Bark- 



