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by Dr. Balfour ? Surely that would have been a greater wrong to Dr. 

 Balfour than the conferring on him the authorship of a few obvious 

 improvements. Every one, unacquainted with the circumstances of 

 the case, will give Dr. Balfour the unearned reputation of producing a 

 better and more perfect book than he has hitherto either written or 

 edited ; in fact, he actually enjoys the reputation, among the casual 

 purchasers of the second edition, of being a better botanist than he is. 

 Advice is the abundant raw produce of fools, the rare and highly- 

 finished manufacture of the wise. Our advice is rarely given ; but 

 the inundation of documents on this subject would imply that here it 

 is required. It is this: — Shake hands and be friends. Let Mr. 

 Griffin retain the copyright : he has bought it, and is entitled to it. 

 Let Dr. Balfour edit every edition hereafter published, and let him 

 receive one shilling for every copy sold : he is entitled to it. Let him 

 never think of disavowing his own book because another has improved 

 it : to do so were ungenerous. Let him never think of remodelling and 

 making another market of that which he has sold : this were — some- 

 thing worse than ungenerous. The Manual must always be sold as 

 Dr. Balfour's : it was his originally, and must remain his, so far as the 

 public is concerned, for ever. ^iTM^drii. 



Note on some further Stations for Leersia oryzoides. 

 By A. W. Bennett, Esq. 



I HAVE the satisfaction of being able to i-eport that this rare and 

 interesting gi'ass is not confined to one spot in this immediate neigh- 

 bourhood. Since it was first noticed at Brockham Bridge we have 

 detected it in two other spots, one lower down the stream, beneath the 

 ruins of Bete h worth Castle, the other considerably higher up, not far 

 firora Betchworth Bridge. In both these stations it occurs in small 

 tufts, compared with its abundance where first observed at Brockham 

 Bridge. It has there, as, we suppose, is usual at this season, been 

 cut down along with the rushes with which it was growing, and 

 nothing is now to be seen of it. These additional stations are suffi- 

 cient, however, to establish its range, and, in connexion with H. C. 

 Watson's discovery of it near Moulsey (see Preface to Phytol. for 1851, 

 p. xix), render it probable that it is to be found in the still, muddy 

 basins of the Mole, all the way from above Reigate to its mouth. 



A. W. Bennett. 



Brockham Lodge, 



16th of 12th mo., 1851. 



