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Natural History,' June, 1851. 'Hooker's Journal of Botany,' June, 

 1851. 'The Phytologist; June, 1851. ' Botanische Zeitung,' 1850. 

 ' The Flora; 1850. 



' Proceedings of Societies :' — Botanical Society of Edinburgh. Bo- 

 tanical Society of London. 



' Miscellanea :' — ' Botanical Memoranda, by W. Borrer, Esq.' In 

 this paper Mr. Borrer corrects certain errors of habitats reported last 

 year in the Gazette and other works. Euphorbia pilosa and Vero- 

 nica verna, said to grow wild near Battle and Hastings^ were found to 

 be E. platyphylla and V. arvensis. Of the fact no doubt exists, since 

 the gentleman who reported these stations accouipanied Mr. Borrer 

 to the spots where the supposed rarities were growing. In Hors- 

 field's ' History of Sussex,' Cuscuta Europaea is reported, on Mr. 

 Borrer's authority, as growing abundantly on furze in Thorney -Island, 

 and occasionally in fields of vetches. The plant on furze is C. Epi- 

 thymum ; that on vetches is what is now called C. Trifolii. " Erio- 

 pliorum gracile, 'Bot. of Sussex,' is the slender state of E. polystachion, 

 the E. gracile of Smith, not of Koch." Mr, Borrer considers the 

 Matlock Thlaspi, given in Eng. Bot. as alpestre, to be the T. virens 

 of Jordan, as suggested by Mr. Babington. 



Notice of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History^ No. 43, 



July, 1851. 



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The only botanical paper, intituled ' Some Remarks on Mosses, 

 with a proposed new Arrangement of the Genera, by William Mitten, 

 A.L.S.,' is one of great interest. Without attempting to express any 

 opinion as to the value of the new combinations here introduced, it 

 cannot be questioned that they are the result of much study, and are 

 therefore to be commended to the careful and attentive perusal of all 

 bryologists. 



" It was in 1847," says Mr. Mitten, " whilst examining Phascum 

 multicapsulare of Smith, that the author's attention was first arrested 

 by the fact that all the Cleistocarpous mosses might bo distributed 

 among the Stegocarpous genera; since which the subject has been 

 neglected, and he now publishes his ideas from seeing in the most 

 recent works on bryology the continued adhesion to the old plan of 

 keeping up a class of Cleistocarpous genera and sj)ecies." 



