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from generation to generation of plants raised in England originally 

 from the Azoric stock. 



Ten years ago, it might have been said that almost nothing was 

 known about the botany of the Azore Islands. At the present time, 

 however, it is probable that the published lists of Azoric species are 

 more complete than those of Madeira plants ; and are not much, if 

 at all, behind those of the Canary plants. Nor is it only in published 

 lists of the species that this rapid progress has been made in the last 

 few years. Our resident Consul, Thomas Carew Hunt, Esq., has 

 enabled the Botanical Society to distribute numerous specimens, par- 

 ticularly of the more characteristic species ; and has thus rendered 

 them familiar to the eyes of many botanists, who might otherwise 

 never have seen samples of Azoric botany. It seems that Mr. Hunt 

 is a member of the Botanical Society of London, and doubtless a 

 very useful one ; for we find Mr. Watson thus writing of his contri- 

 butions : — 



" All the species enumerated in the subjoined supplementary list, 

 excepting Viola tricolor and Lolium perenne, which were sent from 

 Flores by Dr. Mackay, have been communicated to the Botanical 

 Society of London or to myself, from the islands of St. Mary (very 

 few) and St. Michael, by Mr. Hunt, together with an ample supply 

 of duplicates of most of the rarer species of the Azores, for distribu- 

 tion to the members and correspondents of that active and useful So- 

 ciety. I may be allowed to observe here, while referring to Mr. 

 Hunt's valuable exertions towards completing our knowledge of Azo- 

 ric botany, that in sending his collected specimens to the London 

 Society, he has taken the course which best insured their immedi- 

 ate distribution into numerous herbaria in England, Europe and 

 America." 



C. 



On the Claims of Linaria supina to a place in the British Flora. 

 By Isaiah W. N. Keys, Esq. 



Mr. Babington has, in the second edition of his Manual, introduced 

 Linaria supina as " a true native " at Plymouth. This he has done 

 as upon my authority ; but Mr. B. has fallen into an error, which I 

 exceedingly regret. I have communicated with him upon the sub- 

 ject, and he has requested me to say, in any publicity which I might 



