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latter does branch, which is rarely (unless injured, as in several spe- 

 cimens which have been cut down with the corn), the branches are 

 always spreading, and from the lowest part of the stem only, even in 

 my very luxuriant garden specimens ; whereas M. crispa has, when 

 well grown, axillary ascending branches for some distance up the stem, 

 and is altogether a much larger plant : to use a familiar comparison, 

 M. verticillata resembles a holy-oak, M. crispa a Lombardy poplar. 



Euphorbia Peplis. — In 1834, when quite a boy, I found this plant 

 growing abundantly on sand-hills, at Forth Cawl, in Glamorganshire, 

 accompanied by Lavatera arborea and Tamarix anglica. In 1841 I 

 sought in vain for the two former, and on my last visit to that place in 

 the autumn of 1846, the Tamarix also had disappeared. 



James Motley. 



Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, 

 September 13, 1847. 



Welch Habitat for Asplenium germanicum. By Edward Newman. 



Three years have elapsed since I received an anonymous letter, 

 beginning thus, "A Lady who has this season visited North Wales," 

 &c., and then stating that she had found Asplenium septentrionale in 

 great abundance, and also unmistakeable specimens of Asplenium 

 germanicum : the locality was carefully and obligingly given with the 

 view of conducting me to the spot. As far as regards A. septentrio- 

 nale, I knew the statement to be correct, and had no reason whatever 

 to doubt the more extraordinary fact of A. germanicum having 

 occurred in Wales, other than the feeling of uncertainty whether the 

 nameless lady actually knew the plant which she so called. 



The matter is now set at rest. I have before me a veritable speci- 

 men of Asplenium germanicum, gathered (at the very station pointed 

 out by my anonymous correspondent) by Mr. H. Wilson, and obli- 

 gingly transmitted for my inspection by Mr. W. Wilson, of Warrington. 



" In August, 1838, I had the good fortune to find A. septentrionale 

 in luxuriant profusion on a wall by the road-side, going out of Llan- 

 rwst, towards Conway : the station is on the left-hand, exactly op- 

 posite a farm-yard, and about a mile from Llanrwst." Thus I wrote 

 in 1840, and botanists, taking this direction in their hands, rushed to 

 the spot, and although I should have supposed all the herbaria in 

 Europe might have been supplied from that station, yet the fearful 

 spirit of devastation was so strong upon them, that the plant is totally 



