404 



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" Perennial. Fl. July — Sept. In lakes and still water, more abun- 

 dant in the North ?" 



The following is the " Record of Localities :" — 



" Bromus diandrus, Curt. On the top of the wall by the bridge at 

 Causeway Mill, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire, 1851. C. C. Babington. 



" Triticiim lax^um, Fr. Sauudersfoot and Penally Sands, also on 

 Gilter Head, all near Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Aug. 1851. I could not 

 tind it on any of the similar sandy places to the west of these. C. C. 

 Babington. 



" Potamogeton plantagineus, Ducr. Castle Martin Corse, Pem- 

 brokeshire, Sept. 1851. C. C. Babington. 



" Fumaria micrantha, Lag. Between Gallows Hill and Burnham, 

 Norfolk, May 30, 1851. Rev. W. W. Newbould. 



" Cicendia Jiliformis, Griseb. Penally Warren, Pembrokeshire, 

 1851. C. C. Babington." 



The following notice appears on the wi'apper of this month's num- 

 ber : — 



" Discontinuation oftlte ' Botanical Gazette.^ 



" It is with considerable regret that the Editor has to inform the 

 correspondents and subscribers to the ' Botanical Gazette,' that his 

 efforts to establish this Journal on a self-supporting basis have been 

 unsuccessful ; and since the experiments appear to have been perse- 

 vered in long enough to place the character of the periodical fully 

 before the botanical public, there seems little to be expected from a 

 further continuation. The present number is therefore the last that 

 will appear ; and in relinquishing his post the Editor has simply to 

 offer his warm thanks to those who have co-operated with him in the 

 undertaking, and to add, that in thus breaking the bond that has held 

 them around him during the last three years, he quits a task which has 

 been the cause of much pleasure to him during its progress, and which, 

 notwithstanding the variety of opinions expressed in the pages of the 

 Journal, he can look back upon without having to regret one word 

 calculated to disturb the peaceful progress or lower the dignity of 

 science." 



In the concluding paragraph every reader of the Gazette will sym- 

 pathize. It is impossible for a journalist to have abstained from 

 giving offence, even to the most sensitive, more rigidly than Mr. Hen- 

 frey has done. No periodical could be conducted in a better spirit, 

 or with more perfect fairness, openness, and impartiality. Although 



