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This latter plant, however, remained unknown, excepting by a brief 

 diagnosis, until Buchinger communicated to the herbarium of Loyer 

 Villemet well - authenticated examples of this plant, gathered by 

 Bceckler, in Norderney. A comparison of these specimens with 

 those of our Yorkshire Pyrola, abundantly confirmed the previously 

 presumed identity of the two ; but it has at the same time, he says, 

 modified his ideas as to the specific value of each of them, in proving 

 to us that the unusual number of bracts, always constant in the Eng- 

 lish plant, is sometimes reduced to two, as in the normal type. This 

 proved, the type rotundifolia seems, from actual observation, suffi- 

 cient to include as a variety this form arenaria, which Planchon has 

 long regarded as a species. 



The object of this notice was merely to direct the attention of bota- 

 nists to a remarkable form, which will be found, no doubt, on various 

 shores of temperate Europe. Moreover, it is desirable carefully to 

 follow through its possible variations a species which we find not 

 only over Europe, but also in Siberia, and even, it may be, in the 

 pine-forests of Mexico, 



In conclusion, he adds that the P. rotundifolia of Gouan (Flora 

 Monsp.), which grows in the Cevennes, with P. secunda, P. minor, 

 and P. uniflora, is no other than the P. chlorantha of Swartz, — an 

 opinion already established by the authors of the ' Nouvelle Flore de 

 France,' but without any mention of Gouan's synonyme. 



Daniel Oliver, jun. 



Newcastle, October 10, 1853. 



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(Concluded from page 1090). 



Gardiner, ' Flora of Forfarshire,' p. 44, and several of our Scottish 

 correspondents, appear to confound the furze and the broom, as far 



