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Proceedings of Societies, 8fc. 



The Phytologist Club. 



One Hundred and Forty-ninth Sitting. — Saturday, September 24, 

 1853. — Mr. Newman, President, in the chair. 



The following communications, received during the last few weeks, 

 were read : — 



Rosa hihernica in Cumberland. 



" I believe there is no pubhshed report of Rosa hibemica growing 

 wild in England. I observed a single bush of it in 1845, by the road 

 above Crummock Water, Cumberland, in the way from Butterraere to 

 Scale Hill. I had the pleasure of confirming the discovery in June 

 last, by finding several bushes in a hedge near Lorton, in the same 

 neighbourhood ; and Mr. Robinson, of Whinfell Hall, has since found 

 the species in many places in the Vale of Lorton, and towards Scale 

 Hill."— ^F. Borrer; Henjield, September 20, 1853. 



New Station for Teucrium Botrys. 



" Teucrium Botrys was shown me about a fortnight since, by its 

 discoverer there, Mr. Arthur Stedman, on Bagley Hill, Bookham, 

 Surrey, about three miles, ' as the crow flies,' from the place where it 

 was originally discovered, between Betchworth and Headley. Mr. 

 Stedman has observed it in three spots, some growing on cultivated 

 land, but most of it among thin grass on bushy hill-sides. Surely the 

 discovery of this additional station tends to remove all doubt of the 

 species being truly indigenous. 1 wish some one would seek for it 

 about Saunderstead, as Mr. Anderson, late Curator of Chelsea Gar- 

 den, showed me, many years ago, some plants in the Garden said to 

 have been brought from that neighbourhood." — Id. 



Carex punctata in Ireland. 



"It may interest some readers of the ' Phytologist' to know that 

 Carex punctata, Gaudin, grows in Co. Kerry, Ireland. It is one of 

 the most interesting of the many interesting plants which I brought 

 home, last month, from the Dingle peninsula. It occurred near the 

 mouth of the harbour, about a mile or so from Dingle, near a tower 



