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Allosorus crispus. Stony hills about Loch Skew, also very 

 plentiful on the Morton range. 



Asplenium viride. Moist rocks at the Gray Mare's-tail. 



Hymenophyllum Wilsoni. Moist rocks in several places, as Dal- 

 vene Pass ; Nithside ; side of the Skarr water, near Penpout, &c. 



Lycopodium selaginoides. Common on the Lowthers, Morton hills, 

 and Nynron, at the latter place it is accompanied by L. Selago, L. al- 

 pinum, and L. clavatum. 



William Stevens. 



December, 1848. 



Inquiry respecting Thalictrum Kochii. By the Rev. D. Broughton. 



You would confer a favour on remote country simplers like myself 

 if you would insert in your next the character of Thalictrum Kochii 

 (Fries), mentioned by Babington in the last edition of his Manual as 

 possibly growing at Twll du, in Carnarvonshire. 



I gathered a Thalictrum there in September last, which may pos- 

 sibly be the one he had in view ; but being at the time, like Dr. Syn- 

 tax, merely in search of the picturesque, and unprovided with any 

 apparatus for the importation of specimens, and not being aware at 

 the time of Babington's observation, I crammed the plant which I 

 gathered into my hat, under a kind of impression that it did not ex- 

 actly resemble any I had seen before ; and so when I came to extract 

 it for examination, it no more resembled its ownself than Tibault did 

 after he was mangled. 



The inflorescence is remarkably different from that of Thalictrum 

 minus. I am not acquainted with Thalictrum elatum {J acq.), but 

 my specimen agrees better with Koch's description of that plant than 

 any other, only I should characterize it as " Floribus wwbellatis ver- 

 ticillatisque," not subumbellatis. 



It does not correspond with either tab. 419 or 420 of Jac. Flor. 

 Aust., but is certainly more like the latter, only that the caulis is sul- 

 catus. 



I should not have troubled you with these observations but that 

 perhaps they may stimulate the curiosity of other and better botanists 

 than I pretend to be, or induce some one out of mere charity to cor- 

 rect the errors of your humble servant. 



D. Broughton. 



Nantwich, December, 1848. 



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