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year; and I know that this liberality has been justly appreciated. 

 May every success attend all my brother journalists ; and may their 

 numbers increase, year after year, and their coffers be abundantly 

 replenished by their success. I shall continue to give, in each conse- 

 cutive number, a full account of the contents of all botanical journals 

 during the current month. 



Of the papers which treat so pleasantly of the botany of the field, 

 which are so redolent of the sweet breath of wild flowers, 1 need say 

 nothing : they always find delighted readers, and I only wish they 

 were more abundant. Those by Mr. Lees, the Rev. Mr. Bree, the 

 Rev. Mr. Hore, Mr. Varenne, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Bennett, &c., are 

 remarkably agreeable contributions, but do not require that synoptical 

 arrangement which appears necessary for those which contain facts 

 that are to be permanently preserved. These I have attempted to 

 arrange under four heads: — I. Proposed Additions to the British 

 Flora ; II. Additional or Rediscovered Localities of Rare Plants ; 

 III. Critical Remarks on Disputed or Doubtful Species; and IV. 

 Observations on Structure, Physiology, and System. 



I. Proposed Additions to the British Flora. 



Rubus imbricatus. — In a report of the Proceedings of the Botani- 

 cal Society of Edinburgh (iv. 156), Mi*. Hort describes a sup- 

 posed new species under this name. 



Lastrea glandulosa. — I fear this plant, which I have noticed as 

 possibly distinct (iv. 266), is not sufficiently so to warrant its 

 adoption as a species. A succession of careful observations 

 is required before the point can be determined. 



Luzula Borreri. — Since the publication of the late Dr. Bromfield's 

 admirable and elaborate description of a new Luzula (iii. 

 985), Mr. Babington has described the same plant, under the 

 name of L. Borreri, in the third edition of his Manual ; and 

 Mr. Purchas has found it pretty generally distributed about 

 the neighbourhood of Ross, in Herefordshire, and always in 

 company with its allies, L. pilosa and L. Forsteri (iv. 307). 



