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Postscript. — Since the foregoing pages were written, a supply of 

 " Hieracium heterophyllum" has been kindly sent to the Botanical 

 Society by Mr. Bladon ; so that members will now have the opportu- 

 nity of judging for themselves whether it is or is not the H. boreale 

 of Fries. The limited supply of Udora verticillata and Leersia 

 oryzoides has likewise been increased by the addition of some good 

 specimens from Mr. Borrer, who sends the Udora from the second 

 (Hampshire) locality. 



I may likewise mention that the plant entered under the name of 

 " Ranunculus innominatus," in the second edition of the ' London 

 Catalogue,' is the species alluded to in the ' Phytologist ' for last year 

 (Phytol. ii. 854), and which is shown not to be R. tripartitus of Cosson 

 and Germain's Atlas, by the difference of the fruit, which better cor- 

 responds with that of R. hederaceus. Mr. Westcombe has gathered 

 the same Ranunculus in Cornwall. Hewett C. Watson. 



Thames Ditton, January 19, 1848. 



Notice of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History] for the 

 year 1847. Vols. 19 and 20, or Nos. 123 to 136. 



Two years ago it was strongly recommended by a friendly corre- 

 spondent, that the ' Phytologist ' should be rendered, " as nearly as 

 possible, a complete record and index of all that is done or discovered 

 in British Botany," (see Phytol. ii. 382). And notwithstanding the 

 clandestine attempts occasionally made by some few self-interested and 

 selfish individuals, in order to prevent others from sending articles to 

 this journal, or in the vain hope of restricting its circidation and influ- 

 ence, the 'Phytologist' has kept on a steady advance towards accom- 

 plishment of the object proposed ; so that it has now reached a point 

 very little short of being the complete record recommended. Still, it 

 cannot be wholly so without giving an occasional glance at the contents 

 of such other periodicals as profess to be Journals of Botany also. Our 

 notices of the more important of these, namely, the ' London Journal 

 of Botany,' have been brought to the end of 1847. But our custo- 

 mary report of the botanical contents of the Annals, the only 

 other journal in which Botany is anywise a prominent feature, 

 have fallen much in arrear ; partly from its contents including little 

 that could be deemed of special interest to British botanists ; partly 

 from other calls on time and attention. In the course of the year, in- 

 deed, there have been some good articles on Botany in the Annals ; 

 although these are chiefly translations from foreign publications, and 

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