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take in relying too implicitly on Sclikuliv's figures, I must again say, without reference 

 to those figures, that I am much surprized to find that after Sir W. J. Hooker has gi- 

 ven us a description of C. teuella (which is verbatim from Smith), differing in every 

 point from C. remota, that he should ever say " may it not be, &c." But I will just 

 see what Sir J. E. Smith says on the subject. He first tells us that his plant is the C. 

 tenella of Schk. Car. 23. t. P, p. f. 104, exclusive of i. k. I : he then tells us Willde- 

 now and Wahlenberg refer the same plant of Schkuhr to C. loliacea, which he says 

 differs in having a ribbed fniit, flat on one side, &c., this he also tells us is Schkuhr's 

 C. gracilis, 48. t. E. f. 24. Then he goes on to say that it appears to him that Schkuhr 

 has drawn the ripe fruit of his C. tenella, fig. i. k. 1, from a starved specimen of C. lo- 

 liacea, (Eng. Fl. i. [iv.] 83). I shall now refer to the three figures of Schkuhr, viz. 

 i.k.l. and see how far they represent a n66«i fruit, which is^a« on one side. The figures 

 i. k. 1. I find, as I expected, to represent a smooth fruit, cquallt/ com^cx on each side : 

 here again I am under the painful necessity of either becoming a critic, or, what ap- 

 pears to me to be much worse, of believing that the starving of C. loliacea would change 

 its ribbed plano-convex fruit into fruit which is smooth, and equally convex on both 

 sides. For my own part I can no more believe that the starving of a plant will cause 

 all these changes in the character, than that the starving of the soil in which they grow 

 would make it produce new plants altogether. — Id. 



181. Note on Sat/ina maritima. Perhaps it may not be out of place here to say 

 where my Sagina maritima was gathered, so fiir as Warrington is concerned, (Phytol. 

 179 and 234). My first specimens are from the late Mr. E Hobson, gathered at Cu- 

 redly Marsh, in July, 1824. I have the plant from the same locality, gathered in 1840 

 and 1841 by two different persons. Again, I have Sagina maritima gathered by Mr. 

 G. Crozeir, three and a half miles from Runcorn Gap, nearer to Warrington. Curedly 

 Marsh, if I am rightly informed, is three and a half miles from Warrington ; Run- 

 corn Gap is eight miles from Warrington. — Id. 



182. Lotus amjustissimus. I take the liberty of sending you some (I am afraid ra- 

 ther poor) specimens of Lotus angustissimus. I found them near this place in rather 

 a rocky soil a short time ago ; they were rather scarce, I found only three. — Robert 

 Jordan ; West Teignmouth, Devon, June 21, 1842. 



183. Monograph of the British Roses. I wish some one of your more able corre- 

 spondents would kindly publish in your admirable work ' The Phytologist,' a monograph 

 of the genus Rosa, with the varieties ; I think, to a beginner, it is one of the most puz- 

 zling genera that can be. — Id. 



184. Trifolium filiforme. Having for several years past narrowly watched this 

 plant, I send for insertion in your periodical, the result of my enquiries, which will not 

 be thought superfluous, when, even in so late a work as Leighton's ' Flora of Shrop- 

 shire,' this truly distinct species is passed by as a mere variety of T. minus, and tlie fi- 

 gure in ' English Botany,' t.l257, which is sufficiently expressive, is not at all alluded to. 

 I can confirm the account of this plant given in the ' English Flora ' by Sir J. E. Smith, 

 as very faithful. The racemose inflorescence is an unfailing character, and there are 

 not wanting other peculiarities by which it may be known from T. minus, Eng. Bot. 

 t. 1256. The two plants grow together near Warrington in several places, and I am 

 quite satisfied that the view taken of T. filiforme in Hooker's ' British Flora,' and es- 

 pecially in Leighton's work, is erroneous. It may easily be recognized by its more 

 truly procumbent or prostrate habit, its deep yellow almost fulvous flowers and its dark 

 green foliage. The common stalk of the leaves is always very short, about half as long 



