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appearance of the Flora Azorica, Watson published a list 

 of the plants which he collected in the Azores (Lond. 

 Journ. of Botany, 1844, pp. 582-617); and thus increased 

 the number of the Phanerogamia of these islands, which 

 have as yet been made known, to about sixty species. 

 As the plants belonging to the south of Europe found 

 there are of less interest, we shall confine ourselves to 

 his contributions to our knowledge of the endemic flora. 

 He has admitted the following of Seubert's species into 

 this category : Plantago Azorica Hochst. as a variety of 

 P. lanceolata, and Juncus lucidus Hochst. as a synonyme 

 of J. tenuis W. ; also Luzula purpureo-splendens S., ac- 

 cording to an older syn. L. purpurea Watson; and 

 Bettis Azorica as a distinct genus, denominated Seubertia. 

 Lastly, he has described five new endemic forms : Hype- 

 ricum decipiens (H. perforatum S. ?), Petroselinum tri- 

 foliatum y Campanula Vidalii, Myosotis Azorica, and 

 Euphrasia Azorica (E. grandiflora Hochst.?) Vaccinium 

 cylmdraceum Sm. appears different to him from V. 

 Maderense Lk. ; but Erica Azorica Hochst. only a var. 

 of E. Scoparia. The following may be mentioned as 

 interesting discoveries of the plants of Madeira, and other 

 adjacent floras in the Azores : Melanoselinum decipiens 

 Hoffm., Tolpis macrorrhiza D. C., Mirabilis divaricata 

 Lour., and Per sea Tndica Spr. 



Seventy-five parts of the work of Webb and Berthollet 

 on the Canary Islands are out. They carry the systematic 

 part as far as the Synantheraceae. 



Reid has communicated some reports upon the cedar of 

 the Bermuda Archipelago (Lond. Journ. of Bot., 1844, 

 p. 266, and 1843, p. 1). The inhabitants erroneously 

 consider this Coniferous plant (Juniperus Bermudiana) 

 to be the same as the Virginian cedar (Juniperus Fir- 

 giniand}. Even the climate of these islands is very 

 different from that of the opposite coasts of the American 

 continent, as water never freezes in the Bermudas. The 

 most magnificent oranges are produced there, being pro- 

 tected from the winds of the Atlantic by the large forests 



