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ral and local Floras should be burdened with stations actually more than suspicious, 

 yet passed currently for truly wild localities, without allusion to or comment on their 

 disputable character. The practice is one subversive of all progress in Vegetable Ge- 

 ography, a most interesting and delightful department of botanical science. — Id. 



103. Additions and corrections in the Scottish localities of Lycopodium inundatum, 

 (Phytol. 49). From the careful manner in which Mr. Newman is drawing up his in- 

 teresting papers on the British Lycopodia in 'The Phytologist,' I presume he will ex- 

 cuse my pointing out a slight inaccuracy in that on Lye. inundatum. He mentions 

 two localities in this country, but they are really but one and the same station, and 

 that a very circumscribed one, hardly two yards square, first observed by myself. Dr. 

 Balfour, I know, never saw this Lycopodium growing in Nairnshire, and Dr. Greville 

 I believe never was there ; they have furnished him I suppose with copies of the tal- 

 lies which accompanied the specimens they received from the station, so that it is not 

 unlikely the mistake ai'ose with myself; I shall give below the station more correctly 

 described. This correction is so unimportant that I should not have troubled you 

 about it, but that I can give you at the same time three other Scotch stations for this 

 plant. Beginning at the most South-easterly station and going N.W., they would 

 stand in the following order, which is also, I rather think, the order of their discovery, 



Scotland. — Morayshire; at Hatton, on the confines of the parishes of Alves and 

 Kinloss, 3fr. Geo. Wilson. Nairnshire ; near Lochlee, to the east of Nairn, 

 Mr. Jos. B. Brichan : on moist heathy ground (now planted) between Bud- 

 gate and Inchgettle, near Cawdor, Mr. W. A. Stables. Ross-shire ; by the 

 side of the path leading from Craigdarroch Cottage towards the Falls of Re- 

 gie, beyond Strathpefi"er, Mr. Geo. Wilson. — Win. Alex. Stables ; Cawdor 

 Castle, Nairn, Nov. 18, 1841. 



104. Lycopodium annotinum, Selago and Selaginoides. The stations for Lycopo- 

 dium annotinum may also be caried more to the northward, for I have a specimen of 

 it from Ross-shire, given me by Mr. Geo. C. Smith ; and I myself have gathered it 

 (Aug. 3, [833) on Freewater, a mountain in Sutherlandshire. In giving the stations for 

 this species, you give Ben na Mac dhui,i. e. the Mountain of the Black Son, instead 

 of Ben na Muic dhui — the Mountain of the Black Boar. I cannot however vouch for 

 my Gaelic orthography, though it is nearer what it should be than yours. I shall give 

 the stations whence I have specimens of Lye. Selago and Selaginoides, though I fear 

 too late for the papers on these species, at any rate for one. Lycopodium Selago. — 

 Pennyghent Hill, Yorkshire ; and Widdybank, Teesdale, Durham ; Mr. R. B. Bow. 

 man. And I have gathered it myself in Glen Callader, and on Ben na Muic dhui, 

 in Aberdeenshire. Lycopodium Selaginoides. — Coilmore, west of Ireland ; Mr. R. I. 

 Shuttleworth. High Force of Tees, Durham; Mr. R. B. Bowman. Hills round 

 UUeswater. And I have picked it in Glen Dole, Forfarshire. — Id. 



105. Notes on the Genus Tilia. Notwithstanding the repeated discussion of the 

 claims of our three species or fonns of Tilia to be considered indigenous to Britain, 

 and the adduction of many facts pro and con, no definite conclusion appears as yet to 

 have been arrived at. In this undecided state of the question it becomes the duty of 

 botanists to accumulate all the facts and observations within their power, bearing up- 

 on the subject at issue. With this view I forward the following statement of the ap- 

 pearance and occurrence of the genus in the Forest of Wyre, as communicated to me 

 by Mr. George Jorden, of Bewdley. I should however premise that the present Fo- 

 rest of Wyre, which comprises an area of about fifteen or isixteen square miles, one 



