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Art. LXXXII. — On the authority upon which several Plants have 

 been introduced into the ^Catalogue of British Plants' pub- 

 lished by the Botanical Society at Edinburgh. By Charles 

 C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



1. Alchimilla conjuncta, Bab. MSS. A. argentea, G. Don, MSS. 

 in Borr. Herb., Trevelyan in Edinb. New Philos. Journ. 1835, 

 not Lam. Enc. i. 77. 



Gathered by the late Mr. G. Don on the Clova Mountains, as I learn 

 from an original wild specimen in Mr. BoiTer's herbarium. As the 

 name originally applied to this plant by Mr. Don (but not published) 

 had been previously employed by Lamarck for another plant, it has 

 become necessary, in order to avoid confusion, to give a new name to 

 this species. 



Closely allied to A. alpina, but usually much larger in all its parts, 

 and distinguished by its leaflets not being separated down to their 

 base, broader, more silky on the under side, and so placed that in the 

 radical leaves the two external leaflets almost, if not quite, touch each 

 other. 



2. Alyssum calycinum has maintained itself for several years on 

 uncultivated spots in Scotland, and is therefore possibly a true native 

 of that country, although an introduced plant in England. See Eng. 

 Bot. Suppl. 



3. Betula glutinosa. This is the more common species in the 

 northern pai'ts of Scotland. 



4. Bunium Bulbocastanum. Plentiful in the chalky fields of Hert- 

 fordshire and Cambridgeshire. See Eng. Bot. Suppl. 



5. Carex irrigua. I have gathered this plant upon Muckle Moss, 

 Northumberland. It is distinguished from C. limosa by having flat 

 leaves, with their margins scabrous only near the end, usually three 

 female spikes, fruit without striae, and the scales of the catkins with- 

 out the longitudinal green band which is seen in that species. This 

 plant is well figured in Hoppe's 'Caricologia Germanica.' It was first 

 noticed in the above station by Mr. John Thompson, of Crow Hall 

 Mill, near Ridley Hall, Northumberland. 



6. Centranthus Calcitrapa. This has but slender claims to be con- 

 sidered as a British plant, as it has only been found in a naturalized 

 state at Eltham (?) in Kent. 



7. Echinospermum Lappula. In small quantity at South wold in 

 Suffolk, where it was discovered by the Rev. E. A. Holmes. 



