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by Gaudichaud, which contends, contrary to the views of Mirbel and other 
eminent physiological botanists, that all woody fibres proceed from the 
nascent leaf-buds, and thence descend to the radicular extremity of plants. 
Dr. Allemao states that his observations in no way tend to support that 
theory. 
Memoir on New Species of Proteacee, by Dr. Meisner.—In his prefatory 
remarks, the Doctor states that since the publication of Dr. Brown’s 
* Prodromus,’ in 1810, upwards of 400 species have been added to the 
204 Australian species of that work, viz. 163 by Dr. Brown, 48 by Dr. 
Lindley, and 195 by himself. The number of new species described or 
noticed in this paper was 66, including 12 of which characters drawn up 
from specimens in the Society’s herbarium had been forwarded to the 
author by Mr. Kippist, the Society’s Librarian. 
What did John Bunyan mean by the “ Pilgrim’s Weed”? The passage 
alluded to is in the second part of the ‘ Pilgrim’s Progress,’ and runs thus : 
“Then said Mr. Dare-not-lie, It is true, they neither have the pilgrim’s 
weed nor the pilgrim’s courage,” etc. etc. There is another herb or plant 
mentioned in an earlier part of the same pleasing allegory, when, in speak- 
ing about the Valley of Humiliation, one of the sojourners there is repre- 
sented as, though “ clothed in mean attire, to live a merrier life, and to 
wear more of the herb called Heart’s-ease in his bosom, than many who are 
clad in silks and velvets.” Is it known at all at what period this favourite 
plant first took the name Heart’s-ease ? J. B. (Sé. Alban’s.) 
We should be glad to see a specimen of Fumaria confusa, Jordan, an 
intermediate form between JL’. officinalis and F. copreolata. F. confusa is 
surely a South European species or form; but is there any notice taken of 
it in Grenier and Godron’s work, which might be expected to contain every 
plant spontaneous in the South of France? We would thank our learned 
correspondent for a synonym, as we have not Jordan’s work at hand. 
Botanical Notes from South Devon, by Rev. T. F. Ravenshaw, M.4A.—The 
following is a list of plants I found during a sojourn at Torquay and Teign- 
mouth in 1852. As I did not arrive till August, my catalogue contains 
several not met with by Mr. Gissing; and I have omitted any mentioned 
in his Paper in No. II. of the ‘ Phytologist.’ Cakile maritima, Shaldon 
Point ; Dianthus prolifer, Bishop's Teignton ; Saponaria off., var. hybrida, 
near Teignmouth, on the Newton Road ; Silene Armeria, Teigngrace ; Sper= 
gularia marina, Teignmouth; Linum usitatissimum, New Cut, Torquay; 
Geranium dissectum, Daddyhole Plain; Erodium cicutarium, var. album, 
Dawlish Warren; Trifolium arvense, Shaldon; Tamaria gallica, Paignton ; 
Cotyledon Umbilicus, Plymley ; Feniculum vulgare, near the bridge, Teign- 
mouth ; Scandix Pecten-Veneris, Daddyhole Plain; Daucus Carota, Austis 
Cove; D. maritima, Teignmouth ; Sherardia arvensis, New Cut, Torquay ; 
Fedia Auricula, near Dawlish; Gnaphalium uliginosum, ditto; Inula Hele- 
nium, Shaldon Will; Serratula tinctoria, ditto; Pyrethrum inodorum, Teign- 
mouth; Artemisia Absinthium, Bishop’s Teignton; Tanacetum vulgare, 
Newton St. Cyre’s; Salvia Verbenaca, Plymouth ; Calamintha Acinos, Daw- 
lish; C. off., frequent in hedges and walls; Galeopsis Ladanum, New Cut ; 
Antirrhinum Orontium, Dawlish ; Solanum nigrum, Dawlish Warren ; Da- 
tura Stramonium, New Cut ; Anagallis carnea, var., New Cut ; Samolus Va- 
