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Chronicle, p. 662, that this pretty little plant " has been re-discovered in a new situa- 

 tion, about two miles from Dumlanrig Castle." We suspect that this should be 

 Drumlanrig, in Dumfriesshire ; if so it is about 90 miles South of the " bog of Reste- 

 nat, near Forfar," hitherto the only authentic British station for this species, but where 

 for many years it has not been found, in consequence of the bog having been drained. 

 In preparing for publication the second edition of ' English Botany,' it is a pity that 

 the figure of the young Carex dioica should not have been erased from the otherwise 

 characlerislic portrait of this Eriophorum, (E. B. 31 1, and I. 71 of the new edition); 

 at all events we think it ought to have been mentioned in the text, for it is obvious 

 that the figure as it now appears, must mislead those who have not seen the plant it- 

 self, unless they have access to Smith's ' English Flora,' where alone, we believe, has 

 the error been noticed, — Ed. 



74. Death of M. De CandoUe. Our readers will doubtless have seen numerous 

 notices of the decease of this eminent botanist, which took place at Geneva on the 9th 

 of September; we nevertheless deem it our duty to record an event in which all bo- 

 tanists must leel deeply interested. Seven volumes of M. De Candolle's great work, 

 the ' Prodromus Systematis Regni Vegetabilis,' have already appeared, wherein are 

 described the whole of the Thalamifloroe and Calyciflorae. We may conclude by 

 trusting, with a contemporary, that the eighth volume of the Prodromus " is in so 

 advanced state as to enable his relatives to publish it; but after that, however much 

 there may be to hope, there is more to fear." — Ed. 



75. Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants, arranged according to the Natural Or- 

 ders. We are glad to see a work bearing the above title announced by Mr. C. E. 

 Sowerby. It is to be published in monthly numbers, each containing 8 plates, or 48 

 coloured figures, with letterpress. — Ed. 



Art. XXXIV. — Proceedimjs of Societies. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Octofter l. — HewettC. Watson, Esq. F.L.S., vice-president, in the chair. Mr. Baxter, of the Botanic 

 Garden, Oxford, exhibited specimens of Blechnum boreale, collected by Miss Mary Beever, in which the 

 margins of the pinnie were crenate. Mr. B. D. Wardale exhibited specimens of Carex hinervis and distans, 

 and other interesting plants. Mr. Watson exhibited specimens of the following plants : — 



1. Mimulus luteus, found by him apparently wild and gi-owing abundantly in marshy ground along the 

 north side of tlie Tay, fjom half a mile to a mile below Perth ; and also from a rill by the roadside, in front 

 of Daenacardock Inn, forest of Athol, Perthshire. 



2. A laud variety of CallUriche pcdunculala, from Mr. W.'s garden, supposed to have originally come 

 from Esher Common, and inadvertently made in the fourth edition of Hooker's 'British Flora' a variety of 

 C. autumualis instead of C. pedunculata, a species with which it perfectly agrees in the elongated peduncle 

 and keeled fruit, the latter being only half the size of the fruit of C autumnalis. 



3. A series of five specimens of Fvstitca pratensis and loUacea, showing the intermediate states of the 

 supposed two species. The first was the common fonn of F. loliacea of British authors, bearing eleven 

 nearly sessile spikelets disposed alternately along the common stalk or rachis, so as to constitute a simple 

 spike or raceme The second differed by having the peduncles of the spikelets slightly longer, and two of 

 them divided The third, still a spiked raceme of Festuca luliacca, but in the place of the two lower spike- 

 lets there were two branches bearing respectively four and sLx nearly sessile spikelets. In the foui-th the form 

 of the panicle was more developed, there being seven principal branches bearing from two to five spikelets 

 each, on very short stalks. In the fifth the spikelets were more decidedly stalked and disposed into a panicle, 

 which had the ordiuai-y appearance of that of Festuca pratensis in luxuriant growth. All five specimens 



