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of opinion now pressing you on all sides. You must adopt me. You 

 may find an escape from Mr. Newman's name in calling me Fcenisecii, 

 Lowe or Lowi, Bah. or Walker- Arnott, Hook, or Hookeri, Walker- 

 Arnott. I care nothing for little indignities of that kind ; but to 

 adopt me under some name is inevitable. You must give each of us 

 our true status in society, whether you will or no. The working, 

 thinking, reading, cultivating botanists of the present day expect this 

 at your hands, and you will be too wise to withhold it. The sixth 

 edition of the ' British Flora' is a long step in advance of the fifth, 

 and the fifth a long step before the fourth. Further concession must 

 be made, and let me entreat you to make it gracefully and courteously. 

 Show your respect for all that is done well, and never mind by whom. 

 None of us think you have treated Mr. Newman with the courtesy or 

 kindness which his book deserves. You seem angry with him be- 

 cause he has done so much for us ; and we can't understand it : we 

 all exclaim with Nature's poet, — 



" Tantaene animis ccelestibus irae ? '' 



In doing good to us what harm has he done you ? He never 

 mentions either of you unless with that respect to which all agree 

 your talents and labours entitle you. In fact, in the ^British Ferns' 

 he often goes out of his own way to bring in the name of Sir William 

 Hooker, seemingly for the express purpose of testifying his respect 

 for so illustrious a botanist. 



Believe me, Reverend Signiors ! your devoted but aggrieved servant, 



Lastrea recdrva. 

 Killarney, December 25, 1850. 



South-Devon Locality for Adiantum Capillus- Veneris. 

 By T. B. Flower, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



I have sent you specimens of A. Capillus- Veneris from rocks in 

 Mewstone Bay, Berry Head, South Devon, as I am not aware of its 

 being recorded growing in the south of Devon before, it being inte- 

 resting in a geographical point of view. The specimens from Ilfra- 

 combe are merely sent to show that the station is not destroyed. 



T. B. Flower. 



Seend, MelksLain, Wilts. 



