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[As I think this discussion cannot be pursued further with advan- 

 tage to science or pleasure to the readers of the ' Phytologist,' I hope 

 that Mr. Watson will not reply : and having expressed that hope, I 

 must take the liberty in a friendly spirit to point out to Mr. Sidebo- 

 tham that he does not escape from the charge of misrepresentation by 

 terming that misrepresentation a lapsus calami. If Mr. Sidebotham 

 by a slip of the pen wrote one thing while he meant another thing, then 

 that other thing, which he intended to write, but did not, should not 

 only be forthcoming, but should establish the justice of any remarks 

 grounded on the now-called lapsus calami. Again, Mr. Sidebotham 

 assumes that the strictures he quotes from the Athenaeum are penned 

 by the editor of that journal : now those who are behind the scenes 

 assume, and on far better grounds, that the editor of the Athenaeum 

 neither knows nor pretends to know anything of Botany ; and as- 

 sume further, that the passage in question was penned by some tyro, 

 whose blunders or presumption may have been exposed by the caustic 

 remarks of the author of the ' London Catalogue.' It is a great 

 drawback to the value of the Athenaeum that its remarks on Natural 

 History are not editorial : there are so few writers on any one branch 

 of the science, and these few are so hostile to each other, that there 

 is little chance of their reviewing one another fairly. I now never 

 send a book to the Athenaeum, deeming it likely to get into the 

 hands of some scribbler, whose misdeeds I have chastised, and who 

 may still be smarting under the lash. — Edward Newman]. 



List of Habitats of Plants recorded in MS. in a Copy of Blackstone '$ 

 ' Specimen Botanicum." 1 (Communicated by W. Pamplin). 



(Continued from page 170). 



Valeriana sylvestris major montana. About three miles before 

 you come to Westerham, in Kent, in the road from Croydon. 



Valerianella vulgaris major species serotina. In the corn about 

 Otters Pool, and near Smoakhall Wood, by Bath. 



Verbascum pulverulentum Jlore luteo parvo. About the ditch on 

 the outside the city walls, at Norwich ; also by the river Yare, be- 

 tween Bishopsgate Bridge and the ferry-house, both places plentifully. 



Veronica fosculis singularibus foliis laciniatis erecta, R. Syn. 

 280. 6. In a field on the right hand of the road from Sudbury to- 

 wards Braintree. Mr. Andrews. 



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