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of your readers say if the Fern spoken of resembles in any way any Eng- 
lish species? if so, it would prove a great boon to the table of the cot- 
tagers in England. WEE 
GroGRaPHY oF PrLants.—De Candolle’s System of Botanical Geo- 
graphy.—Sir,—In the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ of September 15th, there is 
a notice of the above work, and in this notice it is stated that, with the ex- 
ception ‘‘ of Humboldt’s ‘ Essai sur la Géographie des Plantes,’ published 
in 1805, and Brown’s ‘Appendix to Flinders’ Voyage to Australia,’ and 
Tuckey’s ‘ Voyage to the Congo,’ little had been done up to Schouw’s time 
towards combining all into a general whole,” ete. This is partly correct 
and partly defective. Humboldt published, on this subject, another treatise 
in Latin, in 1817, entitled ‘De Distributione geographica Plantarum cceli 
temperiem et altitudinem montium, Prolegomena,’ ete. Since Schouw’s 
time independently of Watson and Forbes’ efforts in this line, there is an 
elaborate work by another German botanist, published several years pos- 
terior to Schouw’s ‘ Pflanzen Geographie’ (Geography of Plants), which 
deserves honourable mention. This work of Meyen’s was translated by 
Miss Austin (?), and published by the Ray Society some seven or eight 
years ago. Mr. Watson’s work on the Geographical Distribution of Plants 
is limited to the range of the British Species. Does the reviewer mean this 
gentleman’s earlier works on the Geography of Plants, or the more elabo- 
rate work entitled ‘Cybele’? The Hditor of the ‘ Phytologist ’ will doubt- 
less supply the omission of the ‘ Chronicle,’ and inform the botanical public 
that Meyen’s ‘Geography of Plants’ is to be had, both in the original 
German and in the English translation, as published by the Ray Society 
for distribution to members only. Other works on this branch of botanical 
science have been published in Germany, but Meyen’s is the only treatise 
on the general subject which is accessible to the mere English reader. 
Humboldt’s works are, it is apprehended, but little known: this may be 
inferred from the fact of a reviewer in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ ignoring 
Humboldt’s more recent and concise work. Boranica. 
Lecanora rubra, Ach. (p. 159).—The Rev. T. Salwey, in his “ List of 
scarcer Tichens found in the neighbourhood of Oswestry and Ludlow,” 
Shropshire, in Trans. Edin. Bot. Boc., 2209, states that the only two ha- 
bitats he knew for it are ‘‘ upon the saallis of Wigmore Castle, in Hereford- 
shire, and at Craig-y-Rhu, in the parish of Oswestry. In both habitats 
the plant grows upon patches of decayed Hypna hanging loose from the 
stone.” From the former locality I have a specimen given me by Mr. 
Salwey. On 18th July, 1850, he and I searched Craig-y-Rhu for it, but 
without success; nevertheless, as this place is only a portion of a long 
extended range of limestone rocks, it doubtless exists there still, and its 
discovery may probably reward some future researches. 
Shrewsbury, Nov. 16th, 1855. W. A. LEIGHTON. 

Neottia (Spiranthes) estivalis.—Since I wrote to you I have visited the 
habitat of Neottia estivalis in the New Forest; it is mdeed very rare. 
Last year it did not appear in Jersey in Babington’ s habitat, and I am 
expecting to hear shortly whether it has shown “itself this year. I have 
always found the re-appearance of Orchids so very uncertain, that it is im- 
