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giving one of my names to a species with which I was unacquainted ; 

 I still believe my elatior to be nothing more than a hybrid, or a ca- 

 sual variety, yours is a distinct species, and must not be confounded 

 with mine.'''' I suggest therefore that it should bear the name of Jac- 

 quin, if that author was the first to point out its distinctness as a spe- 

 cies, and that it should henceforth be called Primula Jacquinii. — 

 Edward Newman ; PeckJiam, May, 1844. 



485. Note on Liinularia vulgaris fruiting under glass. About this 

 time last year I received from J. Ralfs, of Penzance, some living spe- 

 cimens of Lunularia vulgaris, with young female receptacles covered 

 by the indusium, being informed by him that they never attain to 

 greater perfection in that neighbourhood. I placed them in a box 

 under glass, with other Hepaticee, and in two or three months had 

 the pleasure of seeing the peduncle gradually rise, and the fruit fully 

 matured, with its cruciform tubulose processes. As the circumstance 

 of Lunularia fruiting under glass is mentioned in ' Flora Hibernica,' 1 

 thought it might be interesting to some of the readers of 'The Phyto- 

 logist.' — Isaac Broivn ; Hitcliin, I5th 5th Mo. 1844. 



486. New locality for Barkhausia setosa. On carefully examining 

 some plants which I gathered last summer in a clover-field, on a chalk 

 soil, near Hitchin, I find that they perfectly agree with the descrip- 

 tion of Barkhausia setosa in Koch's Spiopsis, and have no doubt that 

 they were introduced with the clover-seed. This makes the third sta- 

 tion, if I mistake not, for this plant. — Wm. Dawson ; Hitchin, May 

 15, 1844. 



487. Note on Agaricus macrorhizus. Since I sent you the list of 

 Agarics found in the neighbourhood of Hitchin (Phytol. 968), Mr. I. 

 Brown met with a fine crop of Agaricus macrorhizus, growing plen- 

 tifully in a cucumber-bed, some having a pileus an inch and a half 

 broad, and a root five or six inches long. Agaricus domesticus was 

 also found growing on damp wood in a wash-house. — Id. 



488. List of Mosses found near Penzance. A list of Algae, many 

 of them peculiar to this district, from the pen of Mr. Ralfs (Phytol. 

 193), and one of the Hepaticae of Penzance by Mr. Curnow (Id. 609) 

 having already appeared in the pages of ' The Phytologist,' I venture 

 to add also a list of the mosses of the neighbourhood, presuming it will 

 not be altogether devoid of interest, as it contains several rather rare 

 species. Although many additions have been made during the last 

 winter, and the list at present is by no means a short one, still I be- 

 lieve that much remains to be done in investigating the mosses of this 

 western limit of England, the greater portion of the north, and some 



