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quired some reference to the periodical in which the plants grow- 

 ing about Perth were originally published. 



This new but not original list of the Perth plants is as remark- 

 able an illustration of the ancient Latin verse, 



"Hos ego versicalos feci, tulit alter honores," 



as can be supplied by the whole range of literary and scientific 

 productions. 



The honest and simple-minded author of the Perth Flora might 

 adopt the language of the poet when a brother poet claimed the 

 merit and reward of the famous distich which he did not write ; 

 and he would not be wrong in saying, 



" Has ego herbiculas legi, tulit alter honores ; 

 Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves." 



The sheep is shorn, and her fleece taken, without so much as say- 

 ing, '' With your leave.^' 



As the name of the original discoverer of the stations of these 

 rare plants is omitted in this new list, for reasons best known to 

 the compiler and publisher, it will not be entered here, not be- 

 cause we are ashamed of our correspondent, but because his name 

 is as familiar to most, if not to all of the readers of this periodical, 

 " as household words/' 



After all, it is satisfactory to be able to produce the authority 

 of the eminent Professor of Botany in the University of Edin- 

 burgh as a voucher for the authenticity of the plants already re- 

 corded in our pages, and also for the genuineness of the localities 

 where they grow. The ' Murray ' may henceforth be quoted as 

 a corroborative, though secondary evidence, in support of the 

 facts originally published in the ' Phytologist.' 



One point, not satisfactorily cleared up in reference to the 

 spontaneous Perth plants, has been omitted, and we (the Editor) 

 are sorry for this omission ; we mecn that in reference to Are- 

 naria balearica, about which some remarks, not altogether of a 

 friendly kind, though they may have been well intended, have 

 been made by a contemporary, who shall also be unnamed here : 

 some of our readers know to whom this allusion is made. 



We hope that the next time the amiable Professor of botany 

 above mentioned leads his pupils to the hills of Kinnoull and 

 Moncriefle, he will give us his opinion about the Arenaria bale- 

 arica, A. 



