330 GEOGRAPHICAL BOTANY. 



'English Botany/ his successor, J. D. C. Sowerby com- 

 menced a new series of the parts of this illustrated work, 

 of which, with the aid of Wilson, Berkeley, Babington, 

 and Borrer, up to 1844, the first three parts have ap- 

 peared (Supplement to English Botany, second series, 

 Nos. 1-3. London). The Botanical Society of London, 

 following the example of that of Edinburgh, have pub- 

 lished a catalogue of British plants (The London Catalogue 

 of British Plants, published under the direction of the 

 Botanical Society of London. London). Inconsequence 

 of critical elaboration, this catalogue contains considerably 

 fewer species (1305 indigenous, and 132 acclimated pha- 

 nerogamia) than the Edinburgh one, and is ascribed to 

 the pen of Watson. The ' Phytologist/ a journal which 

 was noticed in the yearly report for 1842, is still con- 

 tinued. I may refer to the list of contents given in the 

 ' Botanische Zeitung/ 



Watson has made some critical remarks upon individual 

 British plants (London Journal of Botany, iii, pp. 63-81). 

 Newman has issued a description of British Ferns (A 

 History of British Ferns and allied Plants. London, 

 1844). 'The Annals of Natural History' (vol. xiii, xiv) 

 contain the following contributions to the British Flora : 

 Ball, on (Enanthe ; Taylor, contributions to our know- 

 ledge of the Jungermannice ; Harvey, description of the 

 new Irish genus of Algae, Rhododermis ; Berkeley, con- 

 tributions to Mycology ; Dickie, critical catalogue of the 

 Marine Algae existing at Aberdeen ; Spruce, catalogue of 

 the Mosses and Hepaticae of Teesdale, in Yorkshire ; 

 Salwey, of the Lichens of Wales ; Graham, on the results 

 of his journey through Wales ; Babington, on the Irish 

 Saxifrages. 



Babington has shown that Neottia gemmipara Lm., 

 the rarest of all the European Orchidaceae, which was 

 discovered by Drummond near Cork, in 1810, and has 

 only recently been again found, is identical with the 

 Spiranthes cernua Rich, of North America (Proceed, of 

 the Linnaean Society, 1844). 



