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a variety." For our own part, we have a sort of suspicion that it is 

 the Tormentilla reptans of English botanists. 



2. Filago Jussicei (Cosson and Germain). Found on cultivated 

 land at Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. This is the Filago spatulata of Presl, 

 already several times introduced to the readers of the ' Phytologist,' 

 and which should hardly have been given in the October number of 

 the ' London Journal,' as unnoticed by any writers on British Botany, 

 seeing that its discovery in two or three counties was recorded by 

 Mr. G. S. Gibson, in the August number of the ' Phytologist ;' not 

 obscurely in a mixed report, but in a distinct article expressly so in- 

 tituled. It was again mentioned in the September number of the 

 'Phytologist' (Phytol. iii. 269), as found in "several places" in Sur- 

 rey, through a Report from the Botanical Society. 



3. Mercurialis ovata (Stud, et Hoppe). Found in hedgerows near 

 Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. " It is," says Mr. Mitten, " probably but a 

 state of M. pereunis." 



4. Carex paludosa, var. Kochiana. Found in ditches in the level 

 near Littlehampton, Sussex. Carex Kochiana, De Cand. 



5. Lolium linicola (Sonder). Found with L. temulentum, among 

 various crops on cultivated land about Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. " It 

 may be objected to L. linicola, that it has been introduced with fo- 

 reign seed, which may be true." It was recorded from a field near 

 Catterick Bridge, Yorkshire, in Babington's Manual, second edition, 

 in 1847; the author of the Manual remarking that it is "probably 

 not a native." On this record and authority probably the Lolium li- 

 nicola was given in the second edition of the ' London Catalogue of 

 British Plants,' published last winter. Surely Mr. Mitten should 

 have looked into those two fullest lists of British plants before pub- 

 lishing L. linicola among plants not noticed by any writers on Bri- 

 tish botany. Probably the L. multiflorum of some English botanists. 



6. Triticum biflorum (Brignoli). Found by Mr. G. Don, on rocks 

 on Ben Lawers, and preserved in Mr. Borrer's herbarium. " The 

 only British Triticum with which it can be confounded is T. caninum, 

 from which it may be distinguished by its leaves smooth on both 

 sides, its usually two-flowered spikelets, and its want of the long awn ; 

 it also appears to be a more slender plant, with narrower leaves." 



7. Fumaria agraria (Lagasca). Observed by Mr. Mitten among 

 the British Fumarise in Mr. Borrer's herbarium. 



The characters, &c, of these plants are chiefly transcribed from 

 Koch's Synopsis, second edition ; and we may therefore give a gene- 

 ral reference to that well-known work for them. And if the plants, 



