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Melilotus arvensis is reported by Mr. G. S. Gibson (iii. 707) to 

 occur in the parishes of Heydon and Stratford, both in Essex. 



Carex Persoonii. Mr. Baker (iii. 738) has found this mountain 

 Carex at Snailsworth, the most western of the dales which 

 intersect the group of hills situated in the north-east of York- 

 shire. 



Polypodium Phegopteris. This fern, hitherto supposed to be con- 

 fined to the northern and western counties and a solitary 

 locality in Sussex, has been found (iii. 741) by Mr. Edward 

 T. Bennett, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. 



I cannot allow the opportunity which this annual address affords 

 me of noticing Dr. Bromfield's admirable papers on the Plants of 

 Hampshire. That contribution has indeed extended to an unprece- 

 dented length, but it contains such a mass of new and useful matter 

 and of interesting observations incidental to the leading subject, that 

 it assumes a peculiar botanical value, quite independent of its utility 

 as a county list and guide to localities. The comments on each spe- 

 cies would have formed excellent contributions to these pages even 

 if printed as separate articles. 



Mr. Watson's admirable paper, entitled " Who knows Viola cani- 

 na?" clears up and corrects much that was previously obscure and 

 erroneous : I much wish he would favour this Journal with brief diag- 

 nostics by which the three species of Smith, Viola canina or sylvatica, 

 V. flavicornis and V. lactea might be readily distinguished from each 

 other. 



Among the books noticed during the year, I may mention the com- 

 pletion of the 'Flora Hertfordiensis' and the second volume of 

 'Cybele Britannica,' as real contributions to the science of Botany, 

 more especially in connexion with the British Islands. Dr. Balfour's 

 ' Manual of Botany ' is a good educational work. 



My readers will, I doubt not, be pleased with the notice (iii. 717) of 

 Mr. Miller's new work, entitled ' Foot-prints of the Creator,' a work 

 the object of which would appear to be to act as an antidote to the 



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