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BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
LINN AN SOCIETY. 
On Hypericum anglicum, by Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.R.S.—In 
this paper, the author states that he is disposed to look upon the Hype- 
ricum found by Dr. Balfour on the banks of the Glanmire river, [reland, 
as identical with H. hircinum. He also mentioned that Mr. Isaac Carrol, 
of Cork, looked upon the plant as having been introduced in the locality 
mentioned. Mr. B. is disposed to thik that the true H. anglicum of 
Bertoloni still exists in Britain: a specimen agreeing with it in character 
was found by Mr. T. Polwhele, about Falmouth harbour, Cornwall; and 
specimens of the same kind are in Dr. Balfour’s herbarium, gathered by 
him on the banks of the Crinan Canal, in Galway, Ireland, and near Cul- 
ross. H. anglicum is represented in ‘ English Botany,’ t. 1225, under the 
name of H. Androsemum. Mt is distinguished chiefly by its much branched 
stem, two-winged peduncles, subcordate-ovate rather acute leaves, few- 
flowered cymes, ovate, rather acute and unequal sepals, and by the styles 
exceeding the stamens. 
List of Plants not in the London Catalogue sent out to the Members of Bot. 
Soc. Lond. 1855.—The species worthy of notice which the B. 8. L. has 
this year received are few, though some of them are highly interesting. 
Symphytum tauricum is sent by Mr. T. Kirk, as naturalized at Allesley, 
Warwickshire. Salix acutifolia, Willd. (see ‘ Phytologist’ for 1854, page 
38): Mr. Baker sends a plentiful supply of the leaves of this interesting 
addition to the British Flora. Mr. Baker also sends a Bromus he considers 
as B. Billiotti, Schultz, from Cleveland, Yorkshire : it seems a slight variety 
of B. commutatus, differmg in its separation of the florets when in fruit. 
But the plant which will be most prized is the long lost Hierochloe borealis : 
for this the society is indebted to Mr. Notcutt, who received the species from | 
Mr. Dick, its discoverer, near Thurso. Mr. Dick has known the plant in 
this station for twenty years, but was not aware that it had been lost in 
the original station found by Mr. G. Don. Flowering early in the year, 
it is no wonder that it has passed unnoticed by botanists, who make ex- 
cursions in autumn, when nothing but the leaves of the plant are visible. 
It may be expected to occur in other places, if looked for in the end of 
May or beginning of June. J. T. Syme. 
Note on Fumaria agraria, Lag., noticed in description of British Plants, 
under Fumaria.—A correspondent has obligingly informed us that the 
Fumaria agraria of British botanists is only aform.of £. capreolata. When 
the Fmnarias were described we did not know this, never having seen the 
Cumbrian plant noticed in ‘Botanical Gazette,’ vol. ii. p. 54, and the descrip- 
tion supplied to the readers of the ‘Phytologist’ is condensed from Grenier 
and Godron, Flore de France. Since that time, however, the Fumaria in 
question has appeared at Wandsworth (the one described in the supplement 
to the ‘Phytologist;’ we do not know the Westmoreland plant, and only took 
for granted that it was what its name declared it to be), it has been compared 
with Grenier’s description and with Reichenbach’s figure, and it certainly 
agrees with the agraria of the former and with the major of the latter in 
every respect (Ff. major, Reich., is F. agraria, Lag.). That it is specifically 
