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species from the Pyrenees ; having examined a numerous series of 

 specimens from the latter habitat, and also a large number collected 

 in Ireland by Mr. Andrews ; besides raising some hundreds of them 

 in his own garden, from seeds kindly sent to him by that gentleman. 

 Mr. Babington's acuteness and accuracy of observation, as a botanist, 

 are thoroughly established ; and he could well afford to acknowledge 

 a mistake which arose only from trusting to the characters of an in- 

 sufficient series of specimens ; but which really assumes a much more- 

 unfavourable aspect, through being allowed to remain uncorrected, 

 while there is assuredly a scientific, if not a moral, obligation upon 

 him to make the correction of an error which he has been the means 

 of widely diffusing, however unintentionally and accidentally. 



We mentioned above, that the 'London Journal of Botany' be- 

 comes extinct with the double Number now under notice. It is, 

 however, continued in a smaller and lower-priced form, under title of 

 ' Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany.' The 

 first division of this new title has been long in use orally, though not 

 adopted in print, for the periodical conducted during many years by 

 that distinguished botanist, under several successive names. The se- 

 cond portion of the title now adopted, being printed in larger type on 

 the cover, is probably intended to be the name for current use. If so, 

 we think it at once the selection and the mistake of the publisher, 

 and that he would have found it a most unremunerative designation 

 without the prefixed ' Journal of Botany.' 



We refrain at present from making any list of contents, or ex- 

 pressing any opinion of the Journal in its changed form. It is de- 

 cidedly an experiment in periodical literature, to bring out a journal 

 so low in price, written by and for scientific botanists, who must be 

 few in number, but we hope that all those few will give their support 

 to the publishers, as subscribers at least. C. 



Errata in Mr. Steven's Notes on the Flora of Dumfriesshire, 



Phytol. iii. 390. 



Page 390, and wherever it occurs, for Loch Skew read Loch Skene. 

 „ 391, for Penpout read Penpont. 



„ 391, and wherever it occurs, for Mare's-tail read Mare's Tail. 

 „ 392, for Darrisdere read Durrisdere. 

 „ 393, for Nynron read Tynron. 



