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lata has a stem about a foot high, bipinnatipartite radical leaves, 

 with linear-lanceolate lobes rolled at the edges; small, solitary 

 heads of flowers, forming a lax, elongated, spreading, much- 

 branched panicle; the appendages of the phyllaries with a thick, 

 adpressed terminal spine, short, but yet exceeding the lateral 

 ciliations. C. leucophoea closely resembles paniculata, but may 

 be known from that species by its flat-lobed leaves ; pappus one- 

 half shorter in proportion to the length of the seed, and by hav- 

 ing the terminal spines of the phyllaries shorter than the flexuose 

 lateral ciliations. 



''All the three species are plants of France, but they are all 

 confined in that country to the shores of the Mediterranean, and 

 the southern part of the basin of the Rhone to Dauphine, Pro- 

 vence, Languedoc, and the eastern Pyrenees ; and none of them 

 penetrate so far into the interior as to claim a place in Boreau's 

 ' Flora of the Central Departments,' still less in Lloyd's ' Flore 

 de I'Ouest.' The Microlonchus has only occurred in Jersey in 

 small quantity, and has not been seen since 1855, at which date 

 the example on the table was gathered. Of the fifty {vide Ny- 

 man's ' Sylloge ') real or supposed species of Acrolophus which 

 inhabit southern Europe, C. maculosa of Lamarck (which has 

 often been confounded with the true paniculata, and labelled 

 and described under that name, as, for instance, in the first edi- 

 tion of Koch's ' Synopsis ') is the commonest, and the one which 

 has an area that reaches furthest towards the north and west. 

 It occurs at Orleans and Blois, carried down, say Grenier and 

 Godron, by the Loire, from the mountains of Auvergne and 

 Lyonnois. C. paniculata, and perhaps leucophcea also (they were 

 both sent to me under the name of paniculata), has been met 

 with in tolerable plenty on the shores of St. Ouen's Bay, and 

 also in the Quenvais, the sandy tract of country which stretches 

 from the bay for some distance inland. Mr. Piquet seems to 

 hold paniculata an indigenous Sarnian, but I can call to mind 

 only one plant {Allium triquetrum) which has its Continental 

 distribution, that grows wild in the Channel Islands; and under 

 the circumstances of the case, should prefer to wait for more 

 complete information before receiving it as such. 



" Species introduced with wool into West Yorkshire. — He exhi- 

 bited a series of specimens, sent by Mr. Hobkirk, of Hudders- 

 field, of plants found near Whitby, in that neighbourhood, the 



