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tat for Pamassia palustris was pointed out, where it had been in tole- 

 rable abundance last season. — David Cameron ; Botanic Garden, 

 Birmingham, March 5, 1843. 



276. Repli/ to Mr. Watson\<i Enquiry respecting Mr. S. Gibson. 

 As your correspondent Mr. Watson appears to have some doubts as to 

 the identity of the S. Gibson mentioned by Mr. Francis in his ' Ana- 

 lysis of British Ferns,' in connection with Polypodium calcareum, and 

 again in Mr. Watson's ' New Botanist's Guide, — (Phytol. 524) ; per- 

 haps you will allow me to make a few remarks, which will, I think, 

 set the question at rest. In 1830—33 I sent several parcels of dried 

 plants to Mr. R. B. Bowman ; in these parcels there was every plant 

 mentioned in Watson's Guide, with the name of Gibson connected 

 with them, with the exception of Geranium nodosum, and that I never 

 sent to any correspondent, since T never had more than one specimen 

 of the plant, and that specimen is still in my possession. If the Ge- 

 ranium in question be any Geranium which I sent to Mr. Bowman, it 

 will be Geranium pyrenaicum, and the locality would be Washerlane, 

 near Halifax : and the labels for Polypodium calcareum would be 

 written Sheden Clough, near Burnley, Lancashire. If Mr, Bowman 

 sent Mr. Waison fragmentary and ill-dried specimens, I cannot help 

 that ; but I must say that 1 think Mr. B. might have sent a few good 

 ones out of the two or three hundred specimens of P. calcareum which 

 I sent him. The locality for Meum Athamanticum should have been 

 Ripponden, not Ripon, as in the 'Botanist's Guide,' p. 284. If Mr. 

 Watson or any of his friends should happen to be in this neighbour- 

 hood, and should wish to see the plants growing, I shall be happy to 

 go with them to all or any of the localities given on my authority, the 

 Geranium nodosum and Asarum europaeum excepted. In 1830 I 

 could have gathered five hundred specimens of Asarum, and have left 

 perhaps twice that number; in 1842 I visited the locaUty in company 

 with Mr. Borrer, and we sought for some time before we could find a 

 single specimen, but at length we found a few, perhaps six or seven, 

 some of which we gathered, and the rest we left. If it do appear this 

 season, I expect it will be the last; and then the Yorkshire Flora will 

 lose Asarum europaeum, since we have no other authentic locality for it 

 in the county. — Samuel Gibson ; Hebden Bridge, March 15, 1843. 



277. Note on Polypodium Dryopteris. I am informed by my rela- 

 tive, the Rev. T. Gisborne, that this fern was not introduced at Yoxall 

 Lodge, as suggested in a former No. (Phytol. 509). It exists in ex- 

 tremely small quantity, and the spot has not been altered since the enclo- 

 sure of Needwood Forest.— C. C.Babington; Cambridge, March 1843. 



