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scientific offspring of an older branch of this eminent family. 

 This species or variety is said to be distinguished from S. pro- 

 cumhens and ^. apetala by the close application of the sepals on 

 the capsular valves, after the dissemination of the seed, i.e. not 

 spreading out horizontally in a cross-form position, as in the 

 other two previously named species ; it is worth looking for. 

 Most of the Belgian plants are also British plants ; and there is 

 consequently a greater probability of its presence than of the 

 certainty of its absence in these our islands. 



Oxalis striata is one of the rejected species of England, and 

 one of the indigenous plants of Belgium. On the other hand, 

 0. corniculata is rejected in Belgium as an introduced subspon- 

 taneous straggler, while in our country it generally passes muster 

 as an unchallenged native. lirijuu" 



The Belgian native has in our experience a widjer range in 

 England than the genuine English one; but we have never seen 

 it in an unsuspicious locality. This may be the case with many 

 of our unsuspected natives, viz. all that are confined to , cultivated 

 places, wastes, rubbish heaps, and similar localities, rno^'t s.ioiit^tyfi 



On pages 43, 43, and 44, there is an important note on Epi- 

 lobium lanceolatum, a species recently detected at Plymouth by 

 our indefatigable and observant correspondent, Mr. Briggs. We 

 have carefully compared the ample supply of living plants kindly 

 sent from Devon, with M. Crepin's description, and they ac- 

 cord generally pretty well. Some of the Plymouth specimens 

 are rather bushy, but the characters derived from the stem, the 

 leaves, and the flowers are constant in all the specimens ex- 

 amined, and are amply sufficient to distinguish this species from 

 E. montanumi '■'■ ^ '■- •-'^l^''^' --'■ i- uukiu^ aiuiUiGii oii/ :...; i>:v. 



Several years ago (foui't'een'oi* fiftfe'eri) a'fdfm.' of E'lvh6ntanum, 

 supposed to be E. lanceolatum, was sent through the Botanical 

 Society of London to the Natural History Society of Guildford. 

 This form had, indeed, long and lanceolate leaves, and was at 

 least a yard high. It was found at Stapleton, near Bristol, and 

 probably grows there still. Will some Bristol reader be so 

 obliging as to look for this form of E. montanum, and send an 

 example of it to the office of the ' Phytologist,' or to A, L, 

 28, Upper Manor Street, Chelsea, S.W., near London. 



Here, with reluctance, we are compelled to stop. Our'i space 

 will not admit of any more extracts from this publicatiqn, which 

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