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the two Sedums, whether it may not be "rupestre" after all. The 

 cyme enclosed is the only one on any of my plants this year : it is 

 not nearly so characteristic of " Forsterianum " as the cymes of former 

 3 r ears have been, not so compact and hemispherical, but it may be 

 enough so for your practised eye to decide that it really is the plant 

 I hold it to be. 



W. Thickins. 



Keresley, near Coventry, 

 July 18, 1848. 



[The specimen enclosed has lost that distinguishing characteristic 

 of colour to which I have before alluded ; but although on this ground 

 I cannot venture to pronounce any confident opinion on the subject, 

 I may state that had not a query been suggested I should have had 

 no idea that the plant differed from the ordinary form of Sedum 

 rupestre when grown in a dry and exposed situation, such for instance 

 as a sunny wall. In using the name Sedum rupestre I may as well 

 state that I adopt it as conventionally employed by Smith, &c. I have 

 great doubts as to its identity with the Sedum rupestre of Linnaeus and 

 continental botanists. — Edward Newman.'] 



Note on certain Monstrosities in Trientalis europ&a. 

 By W. M. Ogilvie, Esq. 



While botanizing on the first of the present month, in Baldoven 

 Woods, about five miles north from Dundee, in company with my 

 friend Mr. Gardiner, we found three monstrosities in Trientalis eu- 

 ropaea, L. One had two flowers enclosed in one calyx. Another had 

 four, three of which were fully opened. The third had a number of 

 the stamens converted into petals. Thinking that these facts may be 

 interesting to gome of your readers, I send them for insertion in the 

 ' Phytologist.' 



W. M. Ogilvie, 



Castle Street, Dundee, 

 July, 1848. 



