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catch anywhere, except on the west of Wales, etc. ; Trifolium 

 ornithopodioides. But what think you, courteous reader, of 

 Herniaria hirsuta on the shore of the estuary of the Clyde ? It 

 is a rare find ! Sedum dasyphyllum is not a very unlikely plant, 

 and has been already registered as a flower of Scotland ; S, re- 

 flexum is very problematical ; Petroselinum segetum, another of 

 the same kidney ! Galium spurium, Asperula cynanchica, Gna- 

 phalium supinum, Senecio viscosus, Orchis ustulata, Iris fcetidis- 

 sima, Alisma natans, etc., are some discoveries which it would 

 be satisfactory to have rediscovered, or to receive further au- 

 thentication. 



The other paper on the flora of C umbrae is well worth read- 

 ing ; and we should like to visit this islet, in company with its 

 author. 



Finally, we have the pleasure of congratulating our Glasgow 

 correspondents and friends on the success of their manuscript 

 magazine, and we do thank them very cordially for their kind- 

 ness in sending it to Chelsea. It is not a bond fide publication, 

 and therefore cannot be perused by many of our readers ; con- 

 sequently, criticism of its contents would be unfair, and scarcely 

 intelligible. But even if it were committed to the public, it 

 would be our aim to judge it with leniency, to cherish it as an 

 example of a genuine love of science among the industrious 

 population of the western emporium, which appears to be as 

 celebrated for science as for commerce and manufactorial pur- 

 suits. 



If the manuscript magazine of the Glasgow society were fairly 

 amenable to literary opinion, we should be inclined, like the 

 poet, to " be to its merits rather kind, and to its faults be rather 

 blind." 



It is confidently believed that our Glasgow brethren are fully 

 aware of our sincere desire for the prosperity of their society, 

 and of our good feeling to the authors of these papers especi- 

 ally ; otherwise we would not venture to offer them good advice. 



Not a single word will appear here to intimate that less poetry 

 and fewer flights of imagination would be agreeable to sober 

 Southrons. These writers are young, and full of the natural 

 energy of youth and mental vivacity. Long may they enjoy their 

 exuberant, healthy excitement ! They will pardon the old man 

 who has practised the craft of criticism for above half a century, 



