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Mutel. Fl. Frang. Hungary ; T. Lang, in Herb. Until. Asia Mi- 

 nor ; woody region, Aucher, No. 5321, in Herb. Hook. 



The above being only an extract from a more general memoir on 

 the tribe of Ulmacese, which will shortly be published, time would 

 not allow me to make further investigations on these two species of 

 Ulmus. My only desire was to give a hint to those whose more spe- 

 cial object is the study of European Botany. No society, therefore, 

 could better forward my wish than that which began under your 

 auspices, and whose end is to illustrate, by the best of all means, 

 well-preserved specimens, the general Flora of Europe. 



J. E. Planchon. 



January, 1848. 



Explanations of some Specimens for distribution by the Botanical 

 Society of London in 1848. By Hewett C. Watson, Esq. 



Again, as in past years, I beg the Editor's permission to convey 

 through the pages of the ' Phytologist' such needful explanations 

 concerning certain of the specimens, now in course of distribution 

 from the Botanical Society of London, as cannot be given to the 

 recipients thereof by means of their labels only. In doing this, I 

 may again, as in last year, congratulate the members on the improv- 

 ing character of the Society's distributions. No past season has ever 

 brought so good a collection of specimens as that which is now in 

 hand. They are generally complete examples of their species, have 

 been more carefully dried, and include a larger proportion of those 

 local plants which are likely to be much applied for ; and, further, 

 they have been more correctly and more neatly labelled by their con- 

 tributors, than were the specimens of any preceding year. 



In giving this favourable character to the aggregate collection, 

 however, I write of it as it remains after the destruction of several 

 thousands of specimens either supernumerary or unsuitable, or else 

 labelled at variance with the " Regulations " of April, 1846, a copy 

 of which had been placed in the hands of each member, and the 

 better observance of which might reasonably have been expected. 

 The necessity for destroying so many specimens is greatly to be re- 

 gretted, when we call to mind the time and personal trouble which 

 must have been bestowed on the collecting, drying, and labelling of 

 them, with a result so utterly useless to everybody. 



The destruction of some supernumerary specimens will hardly be 



