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as the above, the only difference being in the greater size and num- 

 ber of spikes, the longer bractea, and in the more stunted growth of 

 S. Savii. 



It is worth mentioning that the nuts of these two plants are as 

 fully entitled to be termed trigonous, or at the least subtrigonous, as 

 those of S. setaceus, but Mr. Babington, in ' British Manual,' ed. 2, 

 says " nuts subglobose ;" these nuts are also longitudinally ribbed or 

 striated with the elevated points he mentions. 



Fig. 3. Scirpus setaceus {L.). 



a. Plant, natural size. 



b. Magnified glume, showing the brownish spots upon either side 

 (which spots often differ in size), and the greenish keel and margins. 



c. Magnified nut. 



d. „ section of ditto. 



Hab. Hampton bogs, Bath, Somerset ; Mr. T. Dutton, 1847. 

 Obs. This locality appears to me to afford plants with the spikes 

 more pedunculated than any I have ever before examined. 



R. Withers. 



Bath, February 6, 1850. 



Contents of the ' Botanical Gazette? No. 16, April, 1850. 



Abstract of Fries' s ' Symbolae ad Historiam Hieraciorum.' [Abridged 

 translation from the - Flora.'] 



Mr. Borrer's Notes on Plants mentioned in the * Cybele Britannica.' 



On the Duration of certain Herbaceous Plants. By T. Irmisch. 

 [Translation from the ' Botanische Zeitung.'] 



Literature : Muller's ' Synopsis Muscorum Frondosorum,' fasc. v. 

 Contents of various botanical journals. 



Proceedings of Societies : [Chiefly a long report of a Monthly 

 Meeting of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; in reference to 

 which we would observe on the unnecessary puerility of their report- 

 er, in reporting over again things that have been printed and re- 

 printed divers times in the last quarter or half century. It would 

 seem as if the reporter for that Society, if not himself a juvenile stu- 

 dent, was at least impressed with the notion that the appropriate pro- 

 ceedings and reports of scientific Societies were to be found in 

 repetitions for the use of students.] 



Miscellanea : Herbarium of Dr. Barneoud. Uses of the Borassus 

 goinutus. 



