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consequently very acute angles of the stem, will always suffice to dis- 

 tinguish the former, without any other characters. I am not at all 

 surprised that C. axillaris and divulsa have sometimes been confound- 

 ed, which might very easily happen if the botanist were guided solely 

 by the very meager descriptions in Hooker's Flora ; and the two spe- 

 cies really differ very little in external aspect. Mr. Borrer tells me 

 that our C. axillaris, at least, is not C. boenninghausiana. — Id. 



423. Note on Veronica triphyllos. This interesting little plant was 

 discovered in the spring of 1842, by Mr. Weatherill of this city, near 

 the village of Nether Poppleton, and it is perhaps generally distributed 

 over the sandy district which extends to a considerable distance west- 

 ward of York, as 1 have observed it during the past spring and sum- 

 mer in three or four stations some miles distant from each other. Near 

 Poppleton it grew abundantly in a stubble-field, as well as in an ad- 

 joining sandy lane amongst Allium oleraceum ; but the place where I 

 have seen it in the greatest luxuriance, is in the lane leading from 

 Acombe to Ascham, where a quantity of brambles and briers had been 

 cut away. Alyssum calycinum has also been discovered by the same 

 gentleman, growing with the Veronica, but in very small quantity. — Id. 



424. Veronica Buxhamnii has been found in several places near 

 York during the last three years, but only by two or three plants at a 

 time, and as I have not heard of its being observed in the same sta- 

 tion for two consecutive seasons, I conclude that it is an introduced 

 plant. — Id. 



425. Note on the Manchester Carex. I am led to believe from the 

 following circumstances, that the statement of Mr. Gibson, wherein 

 he regrets that the locality of his Carex pseudo-paradoxa is a secret 

 (Phytol. 778), has reference to a conversation between Mr. Gibson and 

 myself; may I therefore be allowed, through the medium of your va- 

 luable journal, to vindicate myself from such an imputation ? Mr. 

 Gibson called on me to enquire if I would go w^ith him to gather the 

 plant ; but at the time I was so engaged in business that it was not 

 in my power to do so. He then asked of me the locality, and if I 

 could give him particular directions ? Now, as he was a stranger to 

 that part of the country, and the plant by no means easily to be found, 

 I said I feared I could not, and told him the reason ; but said I could 

 give him a number of specimens, as I had gathered it largely. After 

 some conversation on the subject, he said if I had given him the lo- 

 cality, so that he could have found the plant, it was his intention to 

 have cut it all down, if possible. On this ground I felt myself justi- 

 fied in withholding all further information ; for although no locality 



