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plant considerably recurved at the edges, "which makes them look 

 even narrower in comparison than they are in reality. In drying, 

 uliginosum preserves its colour, whilst debile, like palustre and 

 saxatile, inevitably turns black, Lloyd marks it as ' assez com- 

 mune^ in La Vendee, and 'peu commune' in the Loire-Inferieure. 

 In all probability, when the attention of collectors is directed to- 

 wards it, the plant will be found in other localities in different 

 parts of Britain. 



" Hypochoeris maculata. — Dr. Windsor sends an example of 

 this from Humphry Head, near Cartmell, a promontory on the 

 coast of the lake portion of Lancashire. Carnarvonshire stands 

 in the ' Cybele ' as the north limit of the species. 



"Hie7'acmm gothicum, Mid-west Yorkshire. — Mr. Hardy sends 

 an example of this from Wensleydale. 



" Species introduced into West Yorkshire with foreign wool. — 

 In addition to the species of which specimens from Mr. Hobkirk 

 were exhibited at our November meeting, Mr. Ingle also sends 

 Amaranthus retroflexus and Setaria verticillata, both from the 

 vicinity of Huddersfield. The name of the village near which 

 some of these introductions have been found is Whitley, not 

 Whitby, as printed in the December number of the ' Phytolo- 

 gist/ " 



Mr. J. H. Davies exhibited fine fruiting specimens of Hypnum 

 speciosum in a fresh state, from stumps by the railway-side, near 

 Thirsk station, a second Yorkshire locality. He this evening 

 took his leave of the resident members, prior to a change of his 

 place of abode. He intends still to continue the curatorship of 

 the Muscological department of the Exchange Club, and his ad- 

 dress, until further notice, will be Glenraore Green, near Lis- 

 burn, county Antrim. 



Tobacco and its Adulterations ; with illustrations drawn and 

 etched. By Henry P. Prescott. London : John Van Voorst, 

 Paternoster Row. 



Not very many months ago the press groaned, or teemed, as 

 some say, with treatises on the ill effects of smoking. The 



