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etc. Lathyrus Nissolia is not unfrequent in the hedges, and 

 Hottonia palustris was found last year in a pond in one of the 

 woods, but this habitat is now destroyed. 



4. On the 14th of April last, several specimens of Anemone 

 apennina, Corydalis solida, and Geum urbanum were received 

 from Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire. 



5. Polygonum Blstorta (see Phyt., June, 1862), occurs in 

 large patches on the south bank of the ditch which intersects Bat- 

 tersea Park, near the ornamental water. Saxifraga gramilata 

 abounds in its immediate vicinity. This is the only locality iu 

 the neighbourhood of London for these plants with which I am 

 acquainted. 



6. Teesdalia nudicauUs was found abundantly, in full blossom, 

 in its old habitat on Putney Heath, on the 22nd of April last. 



7. A white variety of Ranunculus bulbosus has occurred for the 

 last four years by the catacombs in Brompton Cemetery. Is this 

 a common form of the species ? I have never met with it else- 

 where. Geranium pyrenaicum, Fedia olitoria, and Tragopogon 

 pi'atensis are abundant in various parts of the grounds. 



8. Convallaria majalis and Vinca major are not now to be 

 found in Dulwich Wood. Sisymbrium tJmlianum abounds on a 

 wall in Lower Sydenham. 



James Britten. 



L'Ardenne. By FRAN901S Crepin, Professor of Botany in the 

 Horticultural College of Gendbrugge-lez-Gendbrugge. Brus- 

 sels : G. Mayolez, Rue de Tlmperatrice. 1863. 



Ardenne covers a considerable portion of the southern and 

 western part of the kingdom of Belgium. It is bounded on the 

 south by the department of Ardenne, in France, and on the east 

 by Luxembourg and E/henish Prussia. There is not room here 

 for even an epitome of M. Crepin's elaborate notice of the phy- 

 sical condition of this tract, the most hilly (? mountainous) of 

 this part of Europe. 



It may be briefly stated that it is watered by the Meuse, and by 

 many smaller and chiefly tributary streams to this the chief river. 



