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Notice of the ' Botanical Gazette,' No. 32, August, 1851. 



The papers in the August number are intituled : — 



' On Luzula Borreri. By W. H. Purchas, Esq.' 



' Literature :' — ' Manual of British Botany. By C. C. Babington, 

 M.A., F.L.S. 3rd Edition.' ' Annals of Natural History,' July, 1851. 

 'Hooker's Journal of Botany,' July,1851. 'ThePhytologist,' July, 1851. 



' Proceedings of Societies :' — 'British Association' (see ante, p. 288). 

 ' Botanical Society of London.' 



' Miscellanea:' — 'Record of Localities.' Mr. Hort communicates 

 that a specimen of Hieracium which he received some time ago 

 through the Botanical Society of London, gathered at St. Vincent's 

 Rocks, near Bristol, by Mr. Stephens, and labelled as H. sylvaticum, 

 is named H. gothicum of Fries by Mr. Babington. 



Since the publication of Dr. Bromfield's admirable and elaborate 

 description of a new form of Luzula (Phytol. iii. 985), Mr. Babington 

 has described it as a species — L. Borreri — in the third edition of his 

 Manual. Mr. Purchas has found the species pretty generally distri- 

 buted around the neighbourhood of Ross, in Herefordshire, always in 

 company with its allies, L. pilosa and L. Forsteri. In one instance 

 he discovered ripe seeds, which were wanting in all Dr. Bromfield's 

 specimens ; these seeds were as large as those of L. Forsteri, and, 

 like them, were furnished with a straight blunt crest. Mr. Purchas 

 does not find L. Borreri invariably to exceed its congeners in size, as 

 was found by Dr. Bromfield to be the case in the Isle of Wight, but 

 this is generally the case ; the leaves also are proportionally narrower 

 than those of L. pilosa, and the leafy shoots turn upwards to the sur- 

 face of the soil more quickly after leaving their point of origin than in 

 that species; hence L. Borreri has not the loose half-creeping cha- 

 racter of L. pilosa, while, on the other hand, it is much less tufted than 

 L. Forsteri. Mr. Purchas inclines to regard this plant as a distinct 

 species. 



Notice of ' Fasciculi of British Mosses. Collected, arranged, and 

 published by F. Y. Brocas, at Mr. R. S. Hill's, Basingstoke, Hants.' 



I have much pleasure in inviting the attention ftf my readers to this 

 little work. The specimens are neatly prepared, and the colours ad- 

 mirably preserved by Bentall's botanical paper. Great attention has 

 also been paid to accuracy in naming the specimens in the first fasci- 



