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to know the two plants apart. Dr. Withering gives no other, except 

 size ; and, if I remember rightly. Sir J. E. Smith is equally obscure 

 on this point. When it is borne in mind that pubescence varies much 

 with situation, the above character seems but a frail one to depend on, 

 especially as there appears to me to be a far more striking distinction 

 by which F. elatior may at once be recognised. In F. vesca, the 

 petals are white ^ both in the liml) and claw, and their length and 

 hreadth are about equal, the limb has two slight notches, and the 

 claw is very indistinct. The petals in F. elatior are in length only 

 equal to two thirds of the hreadth ; the limb is white and perfectly 

 entire, the claw is quite distinct, and bright yellow. I found the two 

 species growing together in Earl Bathurst's park, in this neighbour- 

 hood, and was much struck with the difference between them ; the 

 flowers of F. elatior are far handsomer than those of vesca. — Alfred 

 Knight; Cirencester, June 13, 1843. 



332. Anemone Apennina found in Yorkshire. I send you a spe- 

 cimen of Anemone Apennina, collected this spring in a wood near 

 Otley, Yorkshire, by Miss Gamett. I am not aware of its having been 

 found in this county before. — JVm. Ainley ; Bingley, June 20, 1843. 



333. Note on Carex hoenninghausiana, Weihe. I have for some 

 time past had in my herbarium two specimens of a Carex labelled C. 

 axillaris, from Crichton Castle, Scotland. I had long felt considera- 

 ble doubt whether they were properly referred to that species ; though 

 I was pretty certain they did not belong to C. remota, to which the 

 Crichton Castle plants are referred by Mr. Edmonston, (Phytol. 407 

 and 522). A few weeks ago I had occasion to send my Carices to 

 Mr. Gibson, of Hebden Bridge, for his examination, but without ex- 

 pressing my doubts of this species' being correctly named, as 1 did in 

 several other instances. On their return, I found that Mr. Gibson had 

 pointed out the differences between my plants and the descriptions 

 of C. axillaris as given by Hooker, in the ' British Flora,' and by Mr. 

 Wilson and Dr. Wood, (Phytol. 299 and 300) as well as Mr. Leighton's 

 figure of the fruit of C. axillaris. I now find that my plants are the 

 C. hoenninghausiana of Weihe, a species introduced to the notice of 

 British botanists by Mr. Babington, in his lately published Manual. It 

 has the habit of C. axillaris, but differs from that species chiefly in 

 the nearly entire beak of the fruit being " serrated from below the mid- 

 dle," in the glumes about equalling the fruit, their midrib "not reach- 

 ing the point," and in the bracts not being auricled at the base, but 

 having a narrow brown ligule passing round the rachis. — Geo. Lux- 

 ford; 65, Balcliff Highway, June 21, 1843. 



