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Fries, which has never been employed otherwise than to designate the 

 true H. denticulatum of the three editions of Babington's Manual, 

 and is therefore definite, and easily understood. 



" Though most probably a permanent species, this is too little 

 known by the botanists of this country for any sketch of its distribu- 

 tion to be attempted. Most likely it will be found, like many others 

 of the same genus, geographically allied to its natural associate, H. 

 prenanthoides, and, like that species, attain its southern limit in super- 

 agrarian Yorkshire. It has been so much mixed up with other species, 

 that it is impossible to speak with certainty ; but I believe this is the 

 first notice of its occurrence in England." 



Correction of a previous Error. 



" I am kindly informed by Mr. H. C. Watson, that the Sesrafalcus 

 so plentiful, last autumn, on the Middlesbro' ballast-hills, as men- 

 tioned in a former number (Phytol. iv. 721), is probably rather arven- 

 sis than patulus. The two species are very nearly allied in habit ; 

 but the latter is described as distinguished by its broader spikelets, 

 unequal paleae, and shorter anthers. It is practically known to few 

 botanists as a plant of Britain. Another species, closely resembling 

 that which I collected, is reported to occur occasionally on ballast at 

 the same locality. Perhaps that may be true patulus : also Digitaria 

 humifusa ; but I have not been able to find either of them. I may 

 also take this opportunity of mentioning, that, upon receiving speci- 

 mens of the mosses, collected with Cyperus fuscus at the Codhill 

 locality, I find the Hypnum named nitens is really rufescens, a spe- 

 cies more boreal in its localities." 



Effects of the Mildness of the present Season. 



The President read the following note, from Mr. John Lloyd, dated 

 Wandsworth, January 24, 1853 : — 



" The annexed list of British plants have all of them been observed 

 in bloom, by myself, since the 1st of the present January, and, with 

 very few exceptions, in the neighbourhood of Clapham and Wands- 

 worth, where the soil is light, and the subsoil gravel. Some of them 

 are cultivated ; but they will be found to be such as have their habi- 

 tats in warm, sheltered situations, where we may reasonably expect 

 that they are in bloom at the present time. I have rejected all culti- 

 vated alpines, for, although many of them are in bloom here, we can- 

 not expect that they are so in their mountain homes, where the surface 

 of the ground is probably covered with snow. It will be seen that it 



