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Characteristic specimens should be collected, and a portion of the 

 barren stem, with its 5-nate or 3-nate leaf taken anywhere near the 

 middle, should always be gathered with the flowering one ; care should 

 also be taken when several Rubi are growing intermixed with each 

 other not to confound the barren stems of one species with the (lower- 

 ing ones of another ; this was occasionally done by myself when I 

 first commenced, under the tuition of my friend Mr. Lees, the study 

 of this difficult genus, and more than once I sorely puzzled my friend 

 Mr. Babington with the fruits of my carelessnes and inattention. 



A. Bloxam. 



Twycross, Atherstone, June, 1848. 



Occurrence of Botrychium lunaria near Twycross. 

 By the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, M. A« 



It may not be uninteresting to observe that a botanist may almost 

 every year be finding something new in his neighbourhood; for 

 instance, I have lived in my present abode for ten years, and not until 

 the present one have I discovered Botrychium lunaria (and there has 

 been only one recorded locality for it as yet in the whole of Leicester- 

 shire). I have now three different localities for it in this parish, one 

 where it grows not unsparingly, and that in a field within a hundred 

 yards of my house. Strange that I should have overlooked it so long 

 before ! 



A. Bloxam. 



Twycross, Atherstone, June, 1848. 



Notice of ' Contributions towards A Catalogue of Plants indigenous 

 to the Neighbourhood of Tenby. London : Longman & Co. 1848.' 



Local catalogues for any part of Britain are valuable, provided 

 their correctness may be relied upon; and additions to the few and 

 incomplete lists for Wales are more particularly needed. Accordingly, 

 we hail this publication with pleasure ; although probably it is far 

 from being a full list of the flowering species to be met with about 

 Tenby. Though extended to fifty pages, the work is simply a list of 

 species, arranged in natural orders, with indications of frequency, and 

 mention of very few localities for the less common. Judging from the 



