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Messrs. Brown, Davidson, and himself, at Cawton Heights, near 

 Hovingham, in the summer of the present year. New to the 

 county. 



" Galium insubricum, Gaud. — Mr. T. I. Foggitt has communi- 

 cated, from the vicinity of Sandhutton, near Thirsk, a supply of 

 a Galium differing from the ordinary form of Mollugo by its 

 slender stem, narrower leaves, more erect panicle, branches and 

 pedicels as long and erect as those of erectum. It would appear 

 to be identical with the plant of Gaudin, and not distinct from 

 Mollugo specifically. 



"Gladiolus i7nbricatas, L. — To the courtesy of Mr. J. T. 

 Syme we are indebted for a specimen of this interesting novelty, 

 collected in the June of the present year, in one of the previ- 

 ously registered stations in the vicinity of Lyndhurst, in Hamp- 

 shire. Upon the Continent it is a plant of Eussia, Austria, and 

 Germany proper, but not of France or Switzerland. It much 

 resembles the Gladiolus commonly cultivated in gardens (G. 

 communis, L.), but is distinguished by its smaller size, closer 

 flowers, and rounded seeds. 



" Athyi'iwn Filix-fosmina, plumosum, Moore. — The Messrs. 

 Stansfield, of Todmorden, send from the vicinity of Whitby a 

 very curious and interesting Fern. In the example forwarded 

 the sori are non-indusiate, and placed upon the edge of the pin- 

 nules, as in Davallia, so that it looks very different to the ordi- 

 nary forms of the Lady-Fern; but in a communication with 

 which we have been favoured from Mr. Moore, of Chelsea, he 

 expresses an opinion that it is a variety, or rather, condition, of 

 that species." 



Mr. J. H. Davies exhibited specimens from Mr. Nowell and 

 others, in illustration of the bryology of the coast sandhills in 

 the neighbourhood of Southport, in Lancashire. The series in- 

 cluded Catoscopium nigritum, Bryum uliginosum, B. calophyllum, 

 B, Marratii, and B. loarneum, Meesia uliginosa, Hypnum sale- 

 brosum, H. elodes, and H.polygamum. Also Campylopus hrevijpilus, 

 B. and S., East Yorkshire, Skipwith Common, between York 

 and Selby, 1858, John Nowell : the third British station. 



Brachytliecium glaciale, Bryol. Eur., and B. micropus, Bryol. 

 Eur., two new British species, allied to Hypnum reflexum, found 

 by Mr. Wilson on Ben Lawers in 1855, sent by Miss Atwood. 



