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own perceptions with respect to the Southport plant. All my remarks were written 

 purely with a wish to excite enquiry into facts not yet fully established by evidence. 

 My friend Dr. J. B. Wood last year directed my attention to some very singular re- 

 marks on this plant by Monsieur Jaume St. Hilaire, in the ' Plantes de la France,' iii. 

 {] 809). At that period he says the plant was so little understood, that it was difficult 

 to ascertain " whether it was a distinct species or a monstrosity of another plant," (si 

 c'est une espece distinct, ou une monstruosite d'une autre plante) ; and that it was al- 

 ways found "adhering and parasitical upon the roots of elms &c., but never [after- 

 wards] in the same spot." So that here we have a plant at once migratory and para- 

 sitical, properties which would be very astonishing, thus united, in any but a plant of 

 such mysterious origin. — Id. 



163. Note on the second Bniish species of Monotropa. The smooth-petalled form 

 of Monotropa Hypopitys noticed by Mr. Gibson (Phytol. 201) will probably be found 

 in other localities now that attention is directed to it. I have a specimen in my pos- 

 session from Cholsey, Berks, gathered by Mr. Babei', and distributed by the Botanical 

 Society of liOndon in 1839, which differs from a Reigate specimen of the more usual 

 form, sent to me by the same Society, and agrees with the characters given by Mr. 

 Gibson. The plant or variety has, however, been recognized before by various foreign 

 botanists, and appears to be the same as the Hypopitys hypophegea of G. Don, ' Ge- 

 neral System of Gardening,' iii. 866. Tt is the H. glabra of DecandoUe (Prodr. vii. 

 780), who gives as its habitat the roots of beech-trees in various parts of Germany, and 

 suggests that it may be also found in France and England. A smooth form of Mono- 

 tropa Hypopitys is also mentioned by Koch, in his ' Syn. Flor. Germ, et Helv.' where 

 it is considered as being merely a variety, between which aud the hairy form this au- 

 thor finds many intermediate states. — Robert J. N. Streeten ; Worcester, 9tk May, 

 1842. 



164. Tnfolium incarnatum, (Phytol, 198). The only localities in which I have met 

 with Trifolium incarnatum are Snelsmore and Greenham Commons, near Newbury, 

 Berkshire ; where, in 1838, it grew on the turf, not far from the road-side, in many 

 parts of the commons, and by an inexperienced botanist, who was not aware of the 

 plant's being cultivated in the neighbourhood, would certainly have been supposed to 

 be wild ; indeed, I confess, that when I first saw its deep red flowers, I hoped that I 

 had found a prize. It grew in a scattered manner, and was always very starved and 

 stunted in its growth. — Anna Worsley ; Brislington, May 10, 1842. 



'i65. Potamogeton prtBlongus. In the ' Northern Flora' by Dr. Alexander Murray, 

 of Aberdeen, published in 1836, occur the following remarks respecting this plant. — 

 It " is one of the most recent additions to the British Flora. It is said, however, that 

 there are specimens of it in the herbarium of Mr. Brodie of Brodie,* 20 or 30 years 

 old ; and it is certain that the writer of these remarks, though then unable to deter- 

 mine the name, gathered this species in Cromar, Aberdeenshire, several years before it 

 was known to be a native of Britain, and showed the specimen, still in his possession, 

 upon the same day, as something remarkable, to his friend Mr. John Anderson, now 

 editor of a London daily paper." The readers of ' The Phy tologist ' are of course aware 

 that since the time at which these words were written, various localities, both in Eng- 



* Lochlee is on the Brodie property ; but few of the specimens in the Brodie her- 

 barium were gathered within the province of Moray. 



