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Art. VII. — Notice of- A Flora of Shropshire.'' By W. A. Leighton, 

 B.A., F.B.S.E. London : Van Voorst. 1841. 



(Concluded from page 16). 



We are sorry to find that in speaking of the published illustra- 

 tions of the Botany of Shropshire, in the former part of this Notice, 

 we so worded our remarks as to make it appear that the * Botanist's 

 Guide' by Turner and Dillwyn was the only work bearing that title 

 in which such illustrations had appeared, thus excluding the * New 

 Botanist's Guide ' by Mr. Watson. In Turner and Dillwyn's Guide 

 are recorded the stations of 91 species of flowering plants; in Mr. 

 Watson's New Botanist's Guide the number of species is raised to 

 157, the localities also being much more numerous, and chiefly deri- 

 ved from the previously unpublished notes of botanists of high repute. 



Galium cruciatum, With., (Valantia Cruciata, Linn.) In ' Mag. 

 Nat. Hist.' viii. 280, Mr. Leighton mentions two small, yellow, glan- 

 dular bodies, situated on the back of the leaves of Galium cruciatum, 

 immediately below their apex ; and asks if these bodies are peculiar to 

 the present species, and if any correspondent " can explain their pro- 

 bable use in the economy of the plant." We are not aware of any re- 

 ply to these enquiries having appeared : the glands are obvious even 

 in dried specimens of Galium cruciatum, but we have not observed 

 them in any other species. 



Anchusa officinalis, Linn. ; " Oakley Park meadows, near Ludlow. 

 Mr. H. Spare." We do not remember having before seen any other 

 habitat for this species, than the Links at Hartley Pans, Northumber- 

 land, where it was discovered by the Rev. Thomas Butt : see his letter 

 in 'Memoirs of Sir J. E, Smith,' i. 439. 



The three reputed species of Primula, namely, vulgaris, elatior and 

 veris, of ' English Flora,' i. 271, and other works, are, in the Shropshire 

 Flora, restored to the rank assigned them by Linnaeus, as varieties of 

 his Primula veris; a, officinalis, being described as the cowslip, /3, ela- 

 tior, as the oxlip, and y, acaulis, the primrose ; /3 and y being con- 

 nected by a subvariety of acaulis, the P. vulgaris ^ of ' Eng. Fl.' 1. c. 

 At p. 9 of the ' Phytologist' will be found the description of a new sub- 

 variety, forming another link in the chain of evidence on this question. 



Of Hedera Helix, Linn., Mr. Leighton observes, "the greatest 

 elevation at which I recollect to have seen this plant growing in 

 Shropshire, was near the summit -of the Caradoc Hill, where it most 



