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 last is a record of Trifolium strictum having been found in Anglesea, 

 by Mr. T. Dickenson ; but the discovery seems somewhat vague or 

 uncertain, by the record.] 



Number 2. 



On Valeriana officinalis, L., V. sambucifolia, Mile, and some other 

 doubtful species. [Notices about the plants from foreign authors.] 



Note upon the Effects of Cultivation on Plantago lanceolata, y. 

 sphaerostachya (W. & G.) of Bab. Manual. By George Lawson, 

 F.B.S.E. [Mr. Lawson removed a root from the sands of Barrie in- 

 to a garden, where it became ordinary P. lanceolata, as might have 

 been expected.] 



Discovery of Bromus tectorum in Britain. [A paper by Mr. C. C. 

 Babington, to record the discovery of B. tectorum " for the first time 

 as a native of Britain," near the New Mill, Hertford ; where Setaria 

 glauca and various other foreign species have likewise occurred, 

 doubtless equally introduced with seeds of flax or other foreign pro- 

 duce.] 



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Number 3. 



Additions to the Flora of South Wales. By Hewett C. Watson. 

 [A list of species not on record as occurring in South Wales, when 

 the first volume of the ' Cybele Britannica ' was printed, but subse- 

 quently reported from thence by Mr. James Motley, Mr. C. C. Ba- 

 bington, or other botanists.] 



On the Causes that determine the Fall of Leaves. By Dr. Inman. 

 [From the ' Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Liverpool.'] 



On the Fumaria agraria, Lag. By Charles C. Babington, M.A. 

 [A form long known in England, and usually labelled " F. capreo- 

 lata" by English botanists.] 



On the Varieties of Lythrum Salicaria, L. By Prof. Schlechten- 

 dal. Ditto; by Ph. Wirtgen of Coblentz. [Translations from the 

 1 Botanische Zeitung.] 



On a curious Fact in the Physiology of Roots : their penetration 

 into Mercury. By M. Durand. [Translation from the ' Annales des 

 Sciences. Continued into the succeeding Number of Bot. Gaz.] 



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