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smooth, its base wide obconical, a little narrower than the tip of 

 the pedicel ; bracts of the raceme when in flower equalling the 

 pedicels, but shorter than the erect, spreading pedicels of the 

 fruited plant ; racemes (as in all of the preceding) loose, short, 

 few-flowered. 



Plant more lax than its allies ; corolla smaller than in F. con- 

 fusa, tipped with dark blackish-purple or black. Fleshy base 

 not nearly so broad as the fruit, narrowing conspicuously from 

 above downwards to the pedicel, of which the tip is a little 

 broader than the base itself. The fruit has thus a nearly pyri- 

 form outline. It is equally rounded at the top as elsewhere, and 

 neither pointed nor retuse. The apical pits are very slightly im- 

 pressed, scarcely visible ; bracts often not more than half as long 

 as the fruit-stalks. 

 *' Surrey, Shropshire, Denbigh, Yorkshire. 



[We have ventured to omit some of the characters relating to 

 the petals only, as being less observable in the dried plant, and of 

 less importance ; but those of our readers who wish to obtain a 

 complete knowledge of those four species, must necessarily have 

 recourse to Mr. Babington^s admirable paper, from which we 

 will only quote one more remark.] 



" The only British plant which can be confounded with these 

 cajjreolatce is the difi'use state of F, officinalis. This rampant 

 form of F. officinalis agrees in nearly all respects with the erect 

 and typical form of that species. Its spikes of fruit are very 

 long and lax ; its fruits are obovate-retuse, with a very faintly 

 marked base, and decidedly rugose surface. Its lower petal is 

 spathulate, being linear, with the exception of a round dilatation 

 at the end. The fruits of the capreolat(S are never retuse, have 

 always a marked base and a surface which is not rugose, but 

 sometimes slightly rough when dry. Their lower petal is not 

 spathulate, but widens gradually throughout its upper half" 

 {I.e. p. 161). 



THE FLOEA OF HARKOW AND ITS VICINITY. 



The following has been received from a Correspondent. It is 

 a verbatim extract from the ' Harrow Gazette ' of January 16th, 

 1860, and of February 3rd, of the same year. 



^' Tliere is no district of our native country that cannot boast of 



