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F. muralis, in Fries's Summa Veget. Scand., p. 146, also occur- 

 ring at Hamburg (Koch, ' Synopsis^) . 



Blechnum alpinum. Surely it is time the mystery about this 

 Fern were explained. It is hardly to be expected that British 

 botanists will accept it as an indigenous species. Will not its 

 finder or possessor kindly inform us whether any mistake is pos- 

 sible about its identity ? At any rate the occurrence of a single 

 root should not be held as very conclusive of its wildness ; and 

 mistakes have so often arisen from mixing specimens, that it 

 would not be a matter of any great surprise if something of the 

 kind had occurred in this instance. Besides, there are several 

 singular varieties of Blechnum Spicant, which might deceive an 

 inexperienced eye, though not that of Mr. Wollaston. 



Delphinium Ajacis. May not this prove to be the commoner 

 of the two in Britain, and the more northern or western 

 species ? 



Muscari racemosum is not, I surmise, any recent discovery in 

 Cambridgeshire. This county is expressly mentioned in the second 

 volume of the ' Cybele Britannica / and when I was at Trinity, 

 the plant was spoken of as occiirring near Cambridge, but its 

 nativity there is quite another question. 



P. 7. Would it not be well to know something more of the 

 conditions under which those four plants occur, before assuming 

 the range of Cynoglossum sylv., Helleb., Lonicera Xyl., and Stra- 

 tiotes, to have been extended so far at one leap ? In ' Cybele 

 Britannica,' ii. 284, Cynoglossum sylvaticum is noticed as reported 

 from Perth ; but mistakes seem often to have occurred about this 

 plant. Yet it may be urged the Perthshire habitat can hardly 

 belong to C. officinale?, as both species are included in Mr. Sim's 

 list. Helleb. fcetidus, Lonic. Xyl., and Stratiotes, are also reported 

 jfrom Province 15, but under circumstances more or less sus- 

 pected by the author of the Cybele. The occurrence too of seve- 

 ral foreign plants in the neighbourhood of Perth would seem to 

 render caution aU the more necessary in the present instance, 

 especially in the case of plants which have been all three in turn 

 questioned as natives even in the south of England. 



