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tioned." J. G. Baker, Esq., of Thirsk, and J. Emraet, Esq., of 

 Thorp Arch, are most cordially thanked for suggestions, correc- 

 tions, and co-operations. 



The excellent author of the Phsenogamous part of the work is 

 most respectfully reminded or informed, if it may be assumed 

 that he never heard of the following fact, that Giggleswick Tarn 

 has been drained, and is now cultivated ; and probably this is no 

 recent change. In 1852, just eleven years ago, the place where 

 Lobelia Dortmanna used to grow was a meadow, somewhat de- 

 pressed, but bore no traces of having been recently submerged. 

 See p. 26. 



On p. 18 there is a novelty of orthography, viz. Shignell, which 

 used to be Spignel; and loco in eodem men pro meu. On p. 4, 

 Mithridate is printed Mithradate. Attermire is invariably printed 

 Attermine. Which is right, — the supplement to the ' Yorkshire 

 Flora,' where this once-celebrated locality is invariably printed 

 "Attermire," or that of the work under review, where the name of 

 these rocks is invariably printed " Attermine" ? 



Some botanists — the writer of these remarks is one — might 

 think Lysimachia thyrsiflora sufficiently rare or local to have, 

 in the West Riding, a more precise description of its places of 

 growth than the very general one of marshy heaths, of which 

 there are thousands of acres not more than six or seven miles 

 from Settle. L. Nummularia has nine stations entered ! L. thyr- 

 siflora is a much more uncommon or unfrequent or rare plant than 

 Moneywort. It is localized " wet moors," as if it were as common 

 as the Heaths, Erica Tetralix, etc. These plants grow generally 

 on damp moorish places, where the subsoil is gritty or gravelly, 

 and where the underlying rock is some kind of gritstone. Lysi- 

 machia thyrsiflora doubtless grows in such soils and situations, 

 but how seldom is it found ! — so unfrequent, that it was over- 

 looked for many centuries, — not exactly overlooked, but not de- 

 tected. 



We hope Mr. Miall, in the next edition of his very useful and 

 well-compiled Flora, will tell us where this species of Loosestrife 

 grows ; on what heath}^ moors, and near what town or village it 

 is to be found. 



Quercus sessifiora is probably another typographical error, 

 Betula, or its varieties, are rendered unintelligible by confound- 

 ing Alnus with Betula, or Betula with Alnus, or substituting the 



