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within twelve miles of Plymouth, as the station of the former is little more 

 than three miles thence, and that of the latter about eight. The habitat 

 of FoIygo)tatur!i is a hedge-bank near Stoney Bridge, where it occurs in 

 considerable quantity, and has to all appearance grown there for years ; 

 notwithstanding this, however, the fact that the hedge bounds an or- 

 chard will, I dare say, be sufficient to cause some to regard its claim to 

 be considered indigenous here open to doubt. The Viburnum Lantaua 

 grows plentifully in some hedgerows near Sparkewell, and a person 

 must be indeed sceptical to cpiestion its being a true native there. I 

 have not seen any other station of this species in this neighbourhood. 

 Plymouth, May, 1862. E. B. 



CoNVALLARiA {Malantkemum) bifolia. 



Query. — Has this plant, one of the rarest of the British species, ever 

 been collected in fruit, or seen in England to bear fruit ? The Couvallaria 

 majalis does sometimes occur with berries, but this is in England rather 

 the exception than the rule. 



Note. — There is a good description of C. bifuUa in Wahlenberg's ' Flora 

 Upsaliensis,' p. 111. See Park, 505 ; Ger. 409. In El. Lap. there is a 

 long dissertation which explains, or proposes to explain, why this plant 

 has a tetrapetalous flower and four stamens and a bilocular berry. Com p. 

 Fl. Lap. Smith 85-88. 



BuTNER, a botanist, about contemporary with Hudson (author of the 

 ' Flora Anglica ') as I suppose, — can you inform me if anything is known of 

 him ? I do not remember to have ever met with the name elsewhere. I 

 find him mentioned thus in an interleaved and extensively annotated copy 

 of Hudson's first edition, and Plantago montana, at p. 53, — "habitat in 

 monte Snowdon, Wallife, ubi D. Butner coUegit et mihi dedit." His 

 name occurs here and there among the manuscrijjt notes in other parts of 

 the same copy. W. P. 



British Alg^e. 



Sir, — In reply to the inquiries in the May number of the ' Phytologist,' 

 p. 156, I beg to mention that Enteromorpha Hopkirkii and Laminaria 

 fascia are natives of this country as well as of North-eastern America ; 

 that L. longicruris is also included in the list of British species ; but, 

 according to Dr. Harvey, all the specimens which have been found on the 

 British coasts have been merely the stipes, covered with barnacles, and 

 deprived both of root and leaf. Fucus fnrcatus and Delesseria denticulata 

 have not, I believe, been found in the British seas. M, P. M. 



Comviunications have been received from 

 C. J. Ashfield; W. Pamplin; Hampden G. Glasspoole; Sidney Beisley ; 

 T. E. A. Briggs ; John Sim ; Eev. G. E. Beaumont ; W. G. E. P ; J. W. 

 Chapman ; John Peers ; J. S. M. ; Thomas Eogers ; John Lloyd ; Wil- 

 liam Whale; Mary Walker; Dr. Windsor; H. C. ; M. A. Atwood, etc. 



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