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Arundo Epigejos, L. Brandon woods; near Arbury Hall. 

 Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. Near Arbnry Hall. 

 Equisetum sylvaticum, L. On the borders of a wood, and in a corn- 

 field near Arbury Hall. 



Thomas Kirk. 



Cross Cheeping, Coventry, 

 September II, 1847. 



On the occurrence of Lycopodium annotinum in Cumberland. 

 By H. EcROYD Smith, P^sq. 



Believing that the plant has not previously been noticed growing 

 in England, I have the pleasure of communicating the discovery of 

 Lycopodium annotinura on one of the precipitous sides of Bow-Fell, 

 Cumberland ; also of Silene acaulis above Grisedale Tarn, on the 

 Helvellyn side. 



The catkins differing somewhat from those represented in ' History 

 of British Ferns,' I take the liberty of enclosing a specimen, and shall 

 feel much obliged by an explanatory line when convenient. 



H. EcROYD Smith. 



Bay Cottage, Ambleside, 

 September 10, 1847. 



[The occurrence of Lycopodium annotinum in England has already 

 been recorded in the ' Phytologist' (Phytol. ii. 824). The specimens 

 in that, as in the present instance, are unquestionably correctly named. 

 There is no other difference between the catkins on the specimen 

 obligingly transmitted with the present communication and that figured 

 in the ' History of British Feras,' than that arising from the diffe- 

 rent stages of maturity in which the two have been gathered. The 

 figure represents the catkins mature, the specimen now received has 

 them in a half-grown state. — E. Newmaii] . 



Remarks on Centaurea nigrescens, Malva verticillata, and Euphorbia 

 Peplis. By James Motley, Esq. 



Centaurea nigra, C. nigra, B. radiata, and C. nigrescens. — Having 

 resided for several years near Aberafon, in Glamorganshire, where a 

 Centaurea with radiate flowers, I believe C. nigrescens of the second 

 edition of Babington's Manual, is extremely common, and grows con- 



