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the elucidation and completion of the flora of Bath since the publi- 
cation (in 1839) of the ‘Supplement to the Flora Bathoniensis.’ 
He points out the errors to be found in that book, and corrects 
them, and adds a considerable number of species to the list. 
Unfortunately, we cannot greatly praise Mr. Trimmer’s ‘ Flora of 
Norfolk.’ As a list of plants found in the county, it is doubtless 
very correct; but as a flora of the county it is very imperfect. 
There is no attempt to show the distribution of the plants by local 
divisions. It is an old-fashioned flora, such as might have been 
published fifty years since, except that its nomenclature and the 
view taken of species are those of the present day. Whole districts of 
the county seem not to have been examined, or only in a very super- 
ficial manner. If the author had made known his intention of pub- 
lishing a flora of the county, we know that he might have obtained 
lists of plants for some of these neglected tracts. Let us hope that 
a new edition will supply the wants of this one. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
On the actual state of our Information relative to the ‘ Leporide,’ 
or Hybrid between Hare and Rabbit. By Dr. Pigraux. 
Are there any sexual relations between the hare and rabbit in a 
state of nature to which it would be possible to attribute the crea- 
tion of a mixed or intermediate species, to be named, on account of 
external configuration, Leporide? The ancients, and indeed some of 
the moderns, deceived by the colours and special forms of certain 
varieties of rabbits common in the south of Europe and very abun- 
dant in Asia Minor, have believed this to be the case. Such varie- 
ties are found in some departments of the east of France and along 
the banks of the Rhone. These are, after all, merely rabbits which 
burrow, and are born without fur and with the eyes closed. Such 
are the Léporides of M. Roux, and those also which have been and 
are perhaps still called ‘ Leporides’ at the Jardin d’ Acclimatation in 
Paris. These rabbits pair voluntarily, and are productive either 
amongst themselves or in conjunction with the ordinary domestic 
rabbit. .I have had in my possession some of them which, from 
their appearance, might almost have been mistaken for hares, having 
the tip of the ears black and the inferior surface of the belly and of 
the thighs tawny ; nevertheless, by all characters distinctive of the 
species, they were never anything but rabbits. Thus I am able to 
negative the pretentions of M. Roux to having created a race of 
fertile hybrids begotten through a male hare and several female 
rabbits. 
It is, however, by no means difficult to bring about a connexion 
between the hare and rabbit in a state of domestication; but for 
success we must not persist in uniting adult individuals unaccus- 
tomed to living together previously. In such a case the female 
_ nearly always kills the male, bleeding him at the jugular, or, unless 
the hutch be very securely fastened, succeeds in dislodging him. 
