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27. Lycopodium clavatum grows freely with us iu a peat bed in a shaded situation, 

 and appears as manageable as many other plants. Those who intend to cultivate it 

 should, upon obtaining plants from their native habitat on the moors, put them into 

 light sandy peat, and place the pots in a shaded situation until well rooted, when they 

 may be turned out, with the balls entire, into a favourable situation, where they will 

 require little further care or attention, except putting a little peat over some of the 

 running stems to encourage them to make fresh roots. — Id. 



28. Lycopodmm Selayo may also be grown in the same way as Lye. clavatum, but 

 does better in pots kept in a cool frame, or under a hand-glass, during the winter at 

 least; it is also a plant well adapted for growing in the house, in a glass jar or glass 

 case. Slugs are very fond of this species, and when once they commence will soon de- 

 vour the whole plant if not sought out and destroyed. — Id. 



29. Dianthus plumarius and Dia. Cai-yophylhis. The Dianthus plumarius from 

 Ludlow Castle and D. Caryophyllus from Rochester Castle, cultivated together, be- 

 sides the very satisfactory specific distinction presented by the different division of the 

 petals and the serratures on the margins of the leaves, &c., have a different period for 

 flowering ; the flowers of D. plumarius appearing in June, while D. Caryophyllus 

 only commences flowering at the latter end of July, and is now, in the middle of Au- 

 gust, in perfection ; the first corresponds iu time of flowering with the garden pink, 

 while the latter agrees with that of the carnation. — Id. 



30. Cibotium Baromez, J. Smith. This interesting fern, which produced one fer- 

 tile frond in the autumn of 1839, and of which a description by Mr. Westcott was read 

 before the Linnean Society, February 18, 1840, has one fertile frond upon it this sea- 

 son. By some means or other a mistake has crept into the report of Mr. Westcott's 

 description of this fern in the ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Feb. 18, 1840, 

 which perhaps had better be corrected. The passage I allude to is the following. — 

 " Mr. Westcott is however in possession of a specimen of a fern collected in Mexico 

 by Mr. Ross, which closely resembles the plant of the gardens, and should they prove 

 to be identical, all doubt will be removed as to the claims of the present plant to be 

 regarded as the Baromez of Linnaeus, which is a native of China." The true state of 

 the case is this. For want of a work containing the description of Cibotium, Mr. 

 Westcott thought that in our fern he had detected a new genus ; and he also found, 

 among a lot of dried ferns from Mexico, a mutilated frond of a fern which would 

 belong to the same genus, (this has since been tolerably well ascertained to be Cibo- 

 tium Scheidei, Chamisso) ; and it was the genus he meant that had a wide range, ex- 

 tending from China to Mexico, but not the species, C. Baromez. Whether our plant 

 really be the Baromez of Linnaeus cannot be cleared up, as we are unable to trace out 

 its native country ; we however never had any reason for supposing it to be from Ame- 

 rica. — Id. 



31. Impatiens fulva. From what I have heard of the circumstances under which 

 Impatiens fulva occurs in the localities given in the last No. of the Phytologist (p. 40), 

 I should hardly consider it entitled to a place in the British Flora. I have not 

 visited the spot myself, but I learn from my friend Mr. Jenner, who is pretty well ac- 

 quainted with the neighbourhood, that the plant is scarcely to be found on the banks 

 of the stream above Albury. It is cultivated in the Albury gardens, whence the seeds 

 are most probably carried down by the stream and deposited on its banks, where they 

 vegetate, and the plant soon becomes established, its range being extended still 

 lower in the same manner : it even occurs on the banks of the Thames, below the con- 



