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Phalaris Canariensis, L. Road-side between Freiningtou and 

 Instow, pi'obably introduced, 

 Avenafatua, L. Arable fields in the neighbourood of Northam. 

 Glyceria rigida, Sm. Old walls, Northam. 



FesUica hromoides, L. Old wall, Burrough Farm, Northam ; old 

 wall, Torrington Common. 



Festuca pseudo-myurus. Old walls, Torrington Common. 

 Hordeum pratense, Huds. Southcott, &c. 



Ceierach officinarum, Willd. Old walls of Ford House, near Bide- 

 ford. 



Scolopendrium vulgare^ Sym., $. crispum^ Sm. Near Hartland. 

 y. multijidum, Sm. Common in the neighbourhood of Bide- 



ford, &c. 

 ^. ramosum, Sm. Road-side near Wear Gifford. I have a spe- 

 cimen, gathered at Hartland, in which the frond is deve- 

 loped as two barren, reniform lobes. 

 Osmmida regalis, L. Sea-coast near Hartland ; reported to grow 

 on the bank of the Torridge, above Bideford. 



George Maw. 



Barrat's-Hill House, Broseley, Salop, 

 December 14, 1852. 



Notices of New Books, Sfc. 



* Oh the Growth of Plants in Closely-glazed Cases. By N. B. Ward, 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. Second Edition. London : John Van Voorst. 

 1852.' 



It is with feelings of great pleasure that we welcome a second edi- 

 tion of Mr. Ward's interesting little volume. A period of ten years 

 has elapsed since the publication of the first edition, — a period, alas ! 

 that argues too forcibly, too irresistably, that in this country we are 

 not suflSciently alive to the combination of the useful and the orna- 

 mental, — a combination achieved by Mr. Ward, in the highest pos- 

 sible degree ; for, what can be more useful, what can be more con- 

 ducive to the well-being and comfort of man, than the safe transport 

 of those plants on which, under Divine Providence, his healthful 

 existence may be said to depend, from the country of their nativity 

 to the country of their consumption : — and what can be more orna- 



