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301. Note on Statlce rarijlora. Mr. Notcatt's Slatice (Phytol. 429 

 and 492) is, I perceive, regarded as a distinct species by some of the 

 continental botanists. Specimens have recently been published in 

 Reichenbach's 'Flora Germ. Exsic' No. 2200, as " Statice rariflora, 

 Drejer\ Fl. Hafn. Excurs. p. 121." I have not seen Drejer's work. 

 — William Borrer ; Hen field, April 23, 1843. 



[See also Mr. Henfrey's paper, Phytol. 561 ; and Mr. Babington's remarks in our 

 present No. p. 594. — EdJ] 



302. Note on Smilacina hifolia. I think it has not been noticed 

 in ' The Phytologist,' that Smilacina bifolia was long ago reckoned a 

 British plant, although the fact has been brought forward by Mr. E. 

 Forbes, in Taylor's ' Annals ' for February. Parkinson says, " It 

 groweth in moist shedowie and grassie places of woods, in many pla- 

 ces of the Realm," (Theatr. 505); and in Ger. Em. 409, it is stated to 

 grow " In Lancashire, in Dingley wood six miles from Preston in 

 Aundernesse ; and in Hai'wood neere to Blackeburne likewise." — Id. 



[The following is the Note referred to by Mr. Borrer. — " Maianthemum bifolium. 

 This very pretty plant, recorded as British in the ' Annals ' for January, is a rediscovery, 

 and not altogether new to the British Flora. It has been already figured and recorded 

 as English, but a long while ago. In Gerarde's ' Herbal,' 2nd book, 90th chap. p. 40c), 

 will be found a very characteristic portrait of it under the name of Monophyllum or 

 One blade. He classes it with his Wintergreenes (Pyrolae), and says " it groweth in 

 Lancashire in Dingley Wood, six miles from Preston in Auldirnesse, and in Harwood 

 near Blackburne likewise." " It floureth in May, and the fruit is ripe in September." 

 Let the Lancashire botanists look out for it next spring. It is strange that Gerarde's 

 notice of it should have escaped our older botanists ; and stranger still, that in the 

 Linnean Society's copy it is marked " Convallaria hifolia" in Sir James E. Smith's 

 own handwriting, apparently without his having noticed the localities given for it be- 

 low. In the south of Norway it is very abundant in pine-woods on a gneiss soil, and 

 should be looked for in similar situations in the north of Britain. — Edward Forbes." 

 — 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' February, 1843, p. 158. — Ed^ 



303. Dicranuni iaxifolimn and adiantoides. Besides the characters 

 given in ' Muscologia Britannica,' these two species are distinguished 

 by the following peculiarities. D. taxifolium has the stem constantly 

 unbranched, except perhaps at the very base ; leaves linear-lanceo- 

 late, the upper margin presenting a regular unbroken curve line ; pe- 

 ristome inserted considerably below the mouth of the capsule ; ca- 

 lyptra with an inflexed margin at the base. In all these particulars 

 D. adiantoides exhibits a perfect contrast, when not in a dwarf state : 

 sometimes indeed the latter has simple stems, but the outline of the 

 leaves would always be sufficient, of itself, to indicate the species. 

 Moreover, the teeth of the peristome, in D. taxifolium, are more sud- 

 denly contracted above into long slender points, and they are beset 



