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- Narcissus lobularis. — In a report of the Proceedings of the Botani- 

 cal Society of Edinburgh (iv. 157), Mr. J. T, Sjme gives a 

 notice of this plant, and remarks that it differs from N. 

 Pseudo-narcissus, in having the cup divided into six distinct 

 lobes, and of the same colour as the segments, which are 

 broadly ovate, and rather sharply acuminate. 



Species of Salicornia. — At p. 208 appears a valuable and compre- 

 hensive abstract of a paper by Mr. Joseph Woods, on the 

 vaiious British forms of the genus Salicornia, as observed by 

 himself, principally on the coasts of Hampshire and Sussex. 

 The author considers S. procumbens a distinct species ; S. 

 radicans and S. lignosa certainly distinct from S. herbacea ; 

 but whether they are so from each other, and whether, if that 

 be the case, S. lignosa ought not to be considered as a variety 

 of S. fruticosa, i., and the plant with tubercled seeds to be 

 called S. megastachya, he does not feel competent to decide. 

 The other forms of S. pusilla, S. intermedia, and S. ramo- 

 sissima may, perhaps, be varieties of S. herbacea ; but this 

 also is a subject for further investigation. 



Euphorbia stricta and E. platyphylla. — Some admirable remarks 

 on these species, from the pen of Mr. Hort, are extracted 

 fi-om No. 26 of the ' Botanical Gazette.' Hooker & Arnott 

 (Brit. Flor. 367) have only one species, E. platyphylla, but 

 remark that " a plant agreeing with Reichenbach's figure of 

 E. stricta, and differing, by the leaves being narrowed above 

 the base instead of narrowed gradually to the base, from the 

 common form of E. platyphylla, occurs between Tintern 

 and the Wyndcliff." This, however, does not meet the case, 

 as will be seen by a reference to Mr. Hort's paper. Babing- 

 ton (Man. 281) gives the species as distinct. 



IV. Observations on Structure, Physiology, and System. 



Mr. Heufrey (iv. 23) has some observations, extracted from the 

 * Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' on the develeopment of the 

 spores and elaters of Marchantia polymorpha. 



