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right of the footpath from Wraxhall to the ■ Horse and Jockey.' " 

 The late Mr. Jelly, in his 'Flora Bathonica,' which, from unforeseen 

 circumstances, was never published, gives the locality in these words: 

 "Sides of the Avon going to Tiverton." 



Sole, in his ' Flora Bathonica,' written in the year 1782, with an in- 

 tention of publishing it, but which his death prevented, writes the 

 following : — " I have not yet had the good luck to find this plant, but 

 having had it given me, I have planted it in a low place by the side 

 of the Avon, 100 paces below Mr. Brett's timber-yard — where it 

 flourishes very well." This I make no doubt is the same station al- 

 luded to by Jelly, his Flora having been written some years after Mr. 

 Sole's death, and therefore he could not have known of its having been 

 planted by Sole in the locality mentioned. The plant has not been 

 found in this station for some years. With regard to the Wraxhall 

 station, I have more than once been told, by persons who were well 

 acquainted with Mr. Sole, that he was frequently in the habit of 

 bringing plants into this locality, with a view of introducing them 

 into the neighbourhood of Bath : therefore 1 think we may fairly pre- 

 sume that the Lysimachia was planted here also. And what is 

 rather singular, it has now disappeared from this locality ; not a 

 single specimen, as far as I can learn, having been found since 1841. 

 These statements, I think, very clearly show that the plant has been 

 introduced into the neighbourhood of Bath, and can have no further 

 claims to be considered indigenous ; and that we should not be too 

 hasty in deeming an introduced plant truly wild. 



T. B. Flower. 



Seend, near Melksham, June 14, 1849. 



Notice of 'A Manual of Botany; being an Introduction to the 

 Study of the Structure, Physiology, and Classification of 

 Plants.'' By John Hutton Balfour, M.D., &c, Professor of 

 Medicine and Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 



It would be difficult to point out any instance of more judicious 

 appointment to a Botanical Chair, than was made in the choice of 

 Dr. Balfour to perform the duties of that office successively in our two 

 principal northern universities. In each instance a competition oc- 

 curred which excited at the time a lively interest in botanical circles. 

 It was a struggle between special qualifications for the responsible 



