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only one seed usually comes to perfection. He will also observe a 

 curious change of the dissepiment into a funiculus. At first the ova- 

 ry has two cells, with one ovule in each ; afterwards, as one of the 

 ovules outgrows the other, the dissepiment gradually disappears, only 

 a sufficient portion of it remaining to act as a funiculus, springing 

 from the bottom of the cell and suspending the seed. No doubt oc- 

 casionally two seeds are perfected, which will account for the discre- 

 pancy pointed out by Mr. Gibson. — Charles C. Bahington ; St. Johti's 

 College, Cambridge, January 27, 1843. 



262. Correction of an error in Mr. Edmonston^s List of Edinburgh 

 Plants. I shall be obliged by the insertion of the following correc- 

 tion of an error which somehow or other crept into my MS. on Edin- 

 burgh plants, (Phytol. 407). It is " Crichton castle," not " Craigmillar," 

 which is the reputed station for Carex axillaris. — Thos. Ednionston ; 

 Baltasound, Shetland, January 28, 1843. 



263. Note on the supposed new British Cuscuta. Having seen a 

 notice (Phytol. 466) of the discovery of a supposed new British Cus- 

 cuta, by Mr. C. C. Babington, of Cambridge, it may be interesting to 

 the discoverer to know that while on a visit at Ramsgate in August 

 last, 1 detected a Cuscuta in one or two places in a clover-field on the 

 right hand side of the road leading from St. Peter's to Broadstairs, 

 and which appeared to me at the time to be a variety of C. Epithy- 

 mum. I am now however inclined to think, fi:om Mr. Babington's 

 description, that it may turn out to be the same plant as that describ- 

 ed by him under the name of C. Trifolii. It was by no means abun- 

 dant, and it occurred in patches. I subsequently detected it in small 

 quantity in one or two other places in the Isle of Thanet, where it ap- 

 peared to have greatly injured the crops of clover. I shall take the 

 earliest opportunity of further investigating the subject, and commu- 

 cating the result in ' The Phytologist.' — T. B. Flower ; Surrey St., 

 February 1, 1843. 



264. 'List of a few Plaiits observed in Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire 

 presents one of the most attractive and prolific fields for the botanist 

 in the east of England. The richness and variety of the soil, added 

 to its wide extent, combine in rendering it well worthy the attention 

 and careful investigation of every lover of Natural History. It is un- 

 der this impression that I think the following list of some of the more 

 uncommon plants observed by me during the last few years in the 

 neighbouihood of Gainsborough, may not prove altogether unaccept- 

 able. The district to which I have confined my researches, oflfers 

 perhaps a greater variety than any other part of the county ; the rich 



