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species from the neighbourhood of Dartford^ in Kent ; and Mr. 

 John Barton a couple of examples from a ' hedge-bank at Cherry 

 Hinton, two miles and a half from Bambridge^ possibly an escape 

 from the Botanic Gardens.^ 



" Trifolium elegans, Savi. Last year I met with a patch of this 

 alien Trefoil upon the side of the railway embankment, about half 

 a mile north of Thirsk station, and Mr. John Tatham has shown 

 a specimen gathered by himself in the neighbourhood of Settle. 



" Trifolium resupinatum is sent by Dr. Windsor from rubbish- 

 heaps at Fendleton near Manchester, where it was gathered by 

 Mr. Buxton. 



" Setaria viridis. A few plants were found this autumn by Mr 

 T. W. Gissing, in a cultivated field near Wakefield.^^ 



The Natural History Review and Quarterly Journal of Science. 

 London : Williams and Norgate. April, ISSO."^ 



{From a Correspondent^ 



Three new species of South African plants were communicated 

 to the Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association 

 by Professor Harvey, M.D., on the 21st of May, 1858. A 

 memoir, or history, and also a description of these botanical 

 novelties are siipplied by the Doctor, and are reprinted in the 

 Review, pp. 95-99. They are also figured in the January part 

 of the same periodical, plates 1, 2, 3, 4. 



The first of these plants is a small tree or shrub with light 

 porous wood, leafy branches, petioled roundish scalloped leaves, 

 with resinous glandular dots, and without stipules. The flowers 

 are in clusters, having persistent, glabrous, dotted sepals, and 

 broadly linear-oblong, thick, glossy, bright-crimson petals. The 

 structural peculiarities of the ovary point it out, the Doctor writes, 

 " as probably the type of a new Order." It will be a desirable 

 acquisition to our greenhouses and conservatories. It is proposed 

 to name the genus Greyia, in compliment to his excellency the 

 Governor of the Colony, and this species Sutherlandi, to com- 

 memorate its discoverer. It grows in exposed places, near Port 

 Natal, and its elevation is from 2000 feet to 6000. A note warns 



* This an-ived too late to appear at the proper time, and hence it was overlooked. 

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