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occupied by the revenue-service, I believe. From what has been 

 written and said respecting this Carex and its alHes, it is, doubt- 

 less, known that unusual caution is requisite when it is under con- 

 sideration. I may say, however, that, in the present case, I feel 

 perhaps no doubt but that this is the C. punctata of those English 

 botanists who know the Guernsey plant, and of Scandinavian collec- 

 tions, as I judge from a Norwegian example, which I possess, from 

 Southern Norway, from Prof Blytt, and the figure in Andersen's 

 Plantse Scand., which, so far as I have seen, agree well enough. 

 Wm. Borrer and C. C. Babington confirm my name. I was not 

 aware that any doubt attached to the Menai-Straits station, mentioned 

 in our Manuals ; but, from what W. Borrer tells me, in a letter, I find 

 it must be received with a degree of dubiety (this may, however, 

 apply to but one locality by the Straits, if there be two). The station 

 near Dingle is, so far as I know, the only satisfactory locality for the 

 plant in Ireland, if not in the British Islands, exclusive of the Sar- 

 nian group. (See H. C. Watson's remark, in ' Cybele,' on the Cor- 

 nish habitat). It seems, I may add, to differ at Jirst sight from the 

 nearly alhed Carex distans, and may, perhaps, admit of a clear and 

 specific distinction, in the longer exserted peduncles of the cylindri- 

 cal fertile spikes of patent, pale fruit." — D. Oliver, jun. ; Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne, September 23, 1853. 



Agrimonia odorata in Kerry. 



" Another interesting plant, which I gathered in Kerry, new to the 

 South of Ireland, is what I consider to be Agrimonia odorata, Ait. 

 I collected but two examples, I think, stopping the conveyance for 

 the purpose, by the roadside to the north of Dingle Bay. C. C. 

 Babington, to whom I sent a small specimen, and W, W. Newbould, 

 confirm my opinion, without speaking positively ; the example not 

 being, I think, in fruit, when its more apparent distinction presents 

 itself."— /(Z. 



Notes on a few Devonshire Plants. 



" Perhaps it may be worth while to mention a few Devonshire 

 plants which I gathered in June, during a visit to Harpford, a coun- 

 try village, situated about three miles and a half from Sidmouth, and 

 the same from Ottery St. Mary. They have all been enumerated in 

 the ' New Botanist's Guide,' in the list for Devon ; but, with the 

 exception of Ruscus aculcatus and Lathyrus Aphaca, the localities, 

 so far as I am aware, have not been reported before for that part of 



