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hypoleuca, Champ., Crotalaria brevipes, C//«w/?., Indigofera vennlosa, 

 Champ., Desniodium reticulatum, Champ., and Lespedeza viatoruni, 

 Champ. 



From Sir William Hooker's account we learn that the rice-paper- 

 plant is one of the Araliaceae, and has provisionally, until the flowers 

 and fruit shall have become known, been called Aralia ? papyrifera, Hook. 



In another article Sir William Hooker describes a new species of 

 Deparia — D. Moorii, Hook., a plant discovered by Mr. Charles 

 Moore, in New Caledonia. 



The letter of Professor Parlatore details a tour through the Scandi- 

 navian Peninsula. It is evident that the Professor, whatever he may 

 be as a botanist, is not much of a traveller. Such passages as the 

 following, in which he complains of the cold &c., are quite amusing ; 

 and his friends would have acted more wisely had they suppressed 

 them. If all those enterprising men who venture into the wilds of 

 Australia and the virgin forests of the tropics, where not one but 

 thousands of dangers are staring them in the face, were as cir- 

 cumstantial in narrating the sufferings they are almost daily under- 

 going, we should have nothing else to listen to. " From the river 

 Torneo T passed into the province of Muonio, and found myself in 

 Russian Lapland, passing by Muonioniska, Karesuando, and Tu- 

 bateky. Thence I penetrated into the midst of the deserts, suffei'ing 

 greatly from the cold, and deprived of food, or nearly so, for the plen- 

 tiful supplies which I had brought with me from Stockholm had been 

 entirely spoilt by the continual and copious rains and storms. I was 

 ita want even of bread, — exposed too, as I was, day and night to the 

 open air without a bed, without a roof. Ah ! my good friend, it is 

 impossible for you to imagine the wretched plight I was in, the cruel 

 privations 1 suffered." 



Occurrence of Care.x montana, L., in Gloucestershire. 

 By F. J. A. HoRT, Esq. 



I HAD the pleasure, a few days ago, of finding Carex montana, L., 



growing abundantly, intermixed with C. digitata, L., under Penmoyle 



Rocks, near Chepstow, on the Gloucestershire side of the Wye. It 



was then just coming into full flower. 



F. J. A. HoRT. 



April 21, 1852. 



