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lay down the volume instructed and improved by its perusal, and, 

 however distant such an end may have been from the real object of 

 his journey, the scientific world must acknowledge having received 

 at the hands of James Backhouse an invaluable contribution towards 

 the Natural History of Australia. 



Art. CLXXI. — Varieties. 



365. New locality for Saxifraga Hirculus. I have taken the liber- 

 ty of sending you a few specimens of the rare Saxifraga Hirculus from 

 a new locality, which I discovered in September, 1840, on the West- 

 moreland mountains. The place where I found it growing very plen- 

 tifully, is a marshy piece of ground about three and a half miles S.E. 

 from Crossfell mountain, about five miles N.W. from Caldron Snout, 

 a waterfall already mentioned in your pages (Phytol. 74 and 113), and 

 about a mile and a quarter S.W. from a shooting-box erected last year 

 by the Earl of Thanet, at a place called Netherhearth. The speci- 

 mens enclosed were gathered in August, 1842, when I paid a second 

 visit to the spot : at the same time, and about 200 or 250 yards to the 

 north of it, I discovered Polemonium caeruleum growing upon a lime- 

 stone rock. I was very much surprised at meeting with the latter 

 plant in such a wild and elevated situation, never having heard of its 

 being found growing wild, even in more sheltered places, in this part 

 of the country, but there cannot be the slightest doubt of its being in- 

 digenous. — John Bell; Middleton in Teesdale, August 19, 1843. 



366. New locality for Melittis grandijlora. The readers of your 

 valuable periodical may be pleased to know that Melittis grandiflora 

 has been found in a wood on the Cotswolds, four miles from Chelten- 

 ham : this, I believe, is the most northern habitat yet known for this 

 handsome plant. It was found last year for the first time, in a wood 

 called Puckham Scrubs, by Mr. Gordon, of this town : it occurs in 

 several spots in the same wood. In a boggy meadow near this, hun- 

 dreds of the beautiful Parnassia palustris are now in bloom. — J. 

 Buckman ; Cheltenham, September 2, 1843. 



367. Note on an apparently utidescrihed Hieracium. The plant 

 I now enclose is not described by any writer on British plants. I 

 have it under the MS. name of Hieracium Hypochoeroides. The 

 plant grows at Malham Cove, and other places in the neighbourhood 

 of Settle (in Yorkshire). You will find the plant mentioned by Smith 



