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Notes on some of the British Plants for Distribution to the Members 

 of the Botanical Society of London in 1852. By John T. Syme, 

 Esq.* 



The readers of the ' Phytologist ' will remember with pleasure Mr. 

 H. C. Watson's valuable annual notes on the novelties and critical 

 species of plants sent to the Botanical Society of London. These 

 notes contained so many useful remarks on the distinctions of doubt- 

 ful species, that they possessed quite as much interest for botanists 

 in genera], as for the members of the Society who were to receive the 

 specimens commented upon. I regret that this year the task has 

 fallen into hands so incompetent as mine ; but as there are many 

 plants which require more information to be given with them than can 

 be done on the labels, 1 have been obliged to draw up some notice of 

 them. 



I have much pleasure in mentioning the attention that has gene- 

 rally been paid to the regulations for drying and labelling the speci- 

 .mens, as well as the paucity of misnomei's ; and I find that many 

 plants, at present amongst the duplicates, are marked in the greater 

 number of the members' lists of desiderata. 



I have to express my obligations to Mr, Watson for his opinion on 

 several plants about the names of which I was in some doubt, and to 

 Mr. T. Moore for his on some of the ferns. 



In accordance with Mr. Babington's views (Bot. Gaz. i. 24), I have 

 labelled the Thlaspi from Settle " T. occitanum, Jord.^"" and that from 

 Matlock, " T. virens, Jordr 



There is a plentiful supply of Fumaria parviflora, Lam., and F. 

 Vaillantii, Lois., Ulex Galii, Plan., and Atriplex erecta, Huds. ; also 

 of a Lastrea from Bawsey Heath, which appears to be L. uliginosa, 

 Newm. Of Polygonum laxum, E. B., Medicago sylvestris, Fr., and 

 M. falcata, L., Atriplex deltoidea, Bab., and Glyceria Borreri, E. B. S., 

 a more limited number of specimens have been sent. 



I do not intend to mention more than the name of any species 

 included in the third edition of the ' London Catalogue,' but will now 

 consider those which are not included in it, and which will be sent 

 out in the members' parcels, as far as the supply will allow. 



L Thaiictrtim Jiexuosum, " Rch." Fr. — I collected about fifty spe- 

 cimens of this at North Qiieeusferry, Fifcshire, where it has been long 

 known under the name of T. majus. It is a large plant, often four feet 



* Read before ihe Botanical Society of London, Feliiuary 0, 1852. 



