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second year, we have hitherto abstained from noticing the contents 

 of the ' Gazette ;' but the editor informed his readers in the twelfth 

 Number, published in December last, that " the First Number of the 

 Second Volume will appear in due course on the 1st of January, 

 1850;" and accordingly a thirteenth Number did then appear. 

 While there is still no positive promise or pledge to such effect, we 

 construe this commencement of a second volume into an intimation 

 that the ' Botanical Gazette ' will probably be carried on through 

 another year. Its editor has paid ' The Phytologist ' the compliment 

 of regularly inserting a list of monthly contents ; and as we desire to 

 reciprocate the same plan, it appears advisable to do so ah initio, by 

 giving at once the list of contents of the ' Gazette ' for 1849, before 

 commencing the monthly lists for 1850. 



First Number. 



Introductory Address. [Two explanatory pages by the Editor.] 



On some recently-discovered British Plants. By Charles C. Ba- 

 bington, M.A., &c. [The recently-discovered plants are most of them 

 rather dissevered than discovered. Allium triquetrum (Linn.) has 

 been found in Guernsey, by the Rev. T. Salwey. Tldaspi alpeslre 

 (British authors) is sub-divided into T. alpestre (Linn.) and T. virens 

 (Jord.) This latter name is applied by Mr. Babington to the plant 

 so plentiful on hilly ground near Matlock Bath ; but which is thought 

 by Mr. Borrer not to be the T. virens of Jordan. Another " form," 

 T. occitanum (Jord.), is reported as a variety of T. alpestre; while T. 

 alpestre and T. Gaudinianum (of the same " splitting Frenchman ") 

 are quoted as synonyms of T. alpestre. Medicago falcata is bisected 

 into two varieties, "vera" and " sylvestris," both occurring near 

 Thetford, Suffolk. Arenaria viscosa (Fries) is reported from Redneck 

 Heath, near Thetford, and considered to be only a hairy or glandular 

 variety of A., tenuifolia. Knautia arvensis, variety integrifolia, 

 which we had supposed familiar to English botanists, is recorded as 

 " noticed for the first time " at Cherry Hinton, near Cambridge, in 

 1848.] 



On three species of Ferns hitherto involved in much confusion : 

 Aspidium lobatum, Sm., A. aculeatum, Sm., and A. Braunii, Spenn. 

 By Prof. G. Kunze of Leipsic. [Translation from the 'Flora' of 

 June 14, 1848. Continued in No. 2 of Bot. Gaz.] 



On the Stolons of Epilobium palustre, and of some other species of 

 the same genus. By Thilo Irmisch. [Translation from the ' Bo- 

 tanische Zeitung.'] 



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