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of some miles in extent, less commonly indeed than G. fluitans, and, 

 unlike that species, evincing a peculiar partiality for running water, 

 its customary resorts being shallow streamlets and the margins of 

 brooks ; I do not remember to have noticed it in a single stagnant 

 pool. I have no means of ascertaining whether this is what Mr. 

 Townsend meant by his G. hybrida, as no description seems to have 

 been published of that plant, and I have seen no authentic specimens. 

 Whatever rank be conceded to the present plant, it is certainly not of 

 hybrid origin : its occurrence in such large quantities in company 

 with G. fluitans, while the typical G. plicata is almost absent from 

 the neighbourhood, is fatal to such an idea. I should very unwil- 

 lingly be guilty of hasty or unnatural manufacture of species; and con- 

 sidering the very small amount of good structural characters which I 

 have been able to detect for this plant, I cannot at present claim for 

 it a higher grade than that of variety ; yet is it, when once known, so 

 readily distinguishable from a., that I am desirous of directing the 

 attention of botanists to it, as it most probably occurs elsewhere. 

 Other and better points of distinction between it and G. plicata might 

 perhaps have presented themselves had I enjoyed fuller opportunities 

 of studying the latter in a living state : perhaps those who are more 

 fortunate in this respect will look out for the other plant, and make 

 known through your pages the result of a careful comparison. 



W. H. Purchas. 

 Ross, Herefordshire, Nov. 17, 1849. 



Note on the Discovery of Teucrium Botrys. 

 By William Bennett, Esq. 



As one of the original discoverers of Teucrium Botrys, in company 

 with my friend Thomas In gall, in the neighbourhood of Boxhill, when 

 rambling over that beautiful district in the autumn of 1844, it is with 

 the greatest pleasure and interest I read the account of its rediscovery 

 by G. S. Gibson and W. Borrer, in the last number of the ' Phytolo- 

 gist,' and their opinion of its being most indubitably wild ; especially 

 after hearing reports of its extermination, and knowing of unsuccess- 

 ful attempts to find the plant by several industrious botanists, so as 

 almost to throw doubts upon its authenticity. No one who had seen 

 the plant and its locality could hesitate in pronouncing it truly wild. 

 The spot is peculiarly solitary, at least for being within the range of 

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