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is much to be wished that both these objectionable features in the re- 

 ports of localities could be prevented or checked. There seems only 

 one course likely to effect this desirable object ; namely, submitting 

 the reports of habitats to the eyes and opinion of some competent 

 boatnist, before printing them.] 



Number 12. 



Note on Viola sylvatica and canina. By the Rev. W. A. Leighton, 

 B.A., &c. [A short paper, with two figures, to show a difference in 

 the form of the stigmas of the two species mentioned. These diffe- 

 rences, however, are too slight to be made available in a verbal cha- 

 racter : they would probably puzzle, rather than assist, any botanist 

 who was not already familiar with the plants, and therefore familiar 

 with more obvious and broader differences.] 



Dr. Dickie's Cystopteris. By Thomas Moore. 



Notes on some British forms of the genus Thalictrum. By John 

 Ball, M.R.I.A. 



On Equisetum arvense, var. serotinum, Meyer. By J. W. Sturm. 

 [Translation from the ' Flora' of July, 7, 1848.] 



Literature. Proceedings of Societies. Miscellanea. [Among the 

 " Records of Localities" is one for Orchis hircina ; namely, " In the 

 parish of Great Glemham, near Saxmundham, Suffolk. E. N. Bloom- 

 field, July, 1847." Tt would be very desirable to have some corrobo- 

 ration of this alleged locality for so rare and so conspicuous a plant. 



Number 13. 



Notice on Potamogeton fluitans, Roth, and Ulex Gallii, Planch. 

 By F. J. A. Hort, Esq. 



On the genus Bromus, Sect. Serrafalcus, Parlatore. By Dr. F. 

 Schultz. [Translation from the ' Flora ' of April 21, 1849.] 



On extensive Fissures observed in the Stems of two living and 

 healthy Trees of the Spruce Fir. By Ralph Carr, Esq. [From the 

 ' Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club.'] 



Remarks resulting from a perusal of Mr. Watson's ' Cybele Britan- 

 nica,' vol. ii. By C. C. Babington. [Notes in explanation or cor- 

 rection of points in the ' Cybele,' chiefly where the name of Mr. Ba- 

 bington is mentioned as the authority for statements, &c] 



Literature. Proceedings of Societies. Miscellanea. [Among the 

 latter is an extract from the ' Botanische Zeitung,' " On the plan to 

 be pursued in teaching Botany in schools," that is highly deserving 



