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species are not mentioned in Dr. Greville's, which however contains about twenty not 

 included in the above list. — John Ralfs ; Penzance, March 23, 1842. 



142. Reappearance of Gelidiumrostratumin Scotland. Having seen in the notice of 

 Harvey's ' Manual of British Algae,' in ' The Phytologist' (Phytol. 124) that an obser- 

 vation is made on the long-disputed plant Gelidium rostratum, that it has not been 

 found for thirty years ; I think it will be interesting to your readers to learn that it has 

 again made its appearance. By the kindness of Mi*. Dickie of Aberdeen, I have re- 

 ceived very fine specimens, gathered by him at intervals from December 1841 to March 

 of the present year, the latter fresh, and with ripe fruit of both kinds, some of them 

 eight inches long; Mr. D. had one measuring twelve, I have again examined these 

 beautiful plants, and have requested a friend to submit them to higher powers of the 

 microscope than I possess, and the result of both is a full confirmation of my former 

 opinion, that it is decidedly a distinct species, differing in structure from Delesseria 

 alata, and that its nearest generic affinity is Gelidium. Mr. Dickie informs me that 

 some fragments were found two years since, and that he has received it lately from 

 Montrose ; and as Mr. Brodie originally discovered it at Lossiemouth, it has a consi- 

 derable range of coast. Mr. Dickie also infonns me that it is a deep-water plant — 

 gi'owing on the old stems of Laminaria digitata, together with Delesseria alata and 

 Ptilota plumosa, cast up after storms. — Amelia W. Griffiths ; Torquay, April, 1842. 



143. Note on Trichonema Columnte. In my paper on the Botany of Devon and 

 Cornwall (Phytol. 160), I have stated that no plants of Trichonema Columns were 

 found during the spring of last year on the Warren at Exmouth, the habitat referred 

 to in the British Flora. I was induced to make this statement on the authority of a 

 botanical friend well acquainted with the plant. From the nature of this interesting 

 species I was induced to think that some ruthless collector had extirpated it from the 

 Warren, as it did not appear to me probable that flowering bidbs could be in existence 

 without disclosing their charms at the proper season. This, and to supply the wants 

 of our Botanical Societies, led me, on Tuesday last, to visit Exmouth for the express 

 purpose of seeking out the truth relative to it. Although rather early for it, I was gra- 

 tified in finding it scattered over the waste of sand in several places, but not in abun- 

 dance. It grew amongst the grass (that is, where the grass foimed a kind of turf) at 

 the western end of the Warren. Cladouia rangiferina is in abundance in its neigh- 

 bourhood, and seems to confine it within certain limits, as I did not find a single spe- 

 cimen protruding from amongst this Lichen where it prevailed in large quantities. — 

 W. S. Hare ; Stoke, Devonport, April 7, 1 842. 



144. Narcissus poeticus. I am informed by Miss A. Griffiths, that Narcissus poe- 

 ticus has been found on the Warren by Mrs. Wyatt, the publisher of the beautiful 

 volumes of Devonian Algae. — Id. 



145. Note on Primula elatior. During a recent excursion upon the continent, 

 whilst botanizing near Spa, in Belgium, I found, growing under some nut-bushes up- 

 on the banks of one of the numerous mountain streams in the neighbourhood, three 

 young plants of Primula elatior in flower. Throughout the whole of my walk I did 

 not observe a single specimen of the other two species, — P. vulgaris and veris. The 

 plants in question appeared to be about three years old. — James Edivard Mo.von ; Ley- 

 ion, Essex, April 13, 1842. 



146. Bupleurum tenuissimum. About the middle of last August in walking through 

 some fields on the north of Highgate (I am unable to describe the place, as I was ne- 

 ver there before or since), in one field I observed a quantity of Polygonum Aviculare 



