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ton ; and Mimulus luteus is also spreading itself along the streams 
and over the swampy places behind the town. He adds that he is very 
desirous of introducing some of the British plants which would pro- 
bably thrive, such as Stellaria holostea and Antirrhinum Cymbalaria ; 
and states that he brought out with him from England Vallisneria 
spiralis, of which he has specimens intended for the Botanic Garden 
at Melbourne, from whence it may perhaps make its way to Sydney 
and Hobart Town. Mr. Ralph concludes his sketch by mentioning a 
species of Nitella (N. translucens ?) found in a rapid stream about 
five-and-twenty miles from Wellington. 
Notes &c. of the late Mr. Griffith. 
Read also a Letter from John McClelland, Esq., F.L.S., to R. 
Brown, Esq., V.P.L.S., dated Calcutta, 15th of January, 1853, and 
accompanying a large packet of notes and sketches by the late Wil- 
liam Griffith, Esq., F.L.S.; on the development of the ovulum in San- 
talum, Osyris, Loranthus and Viscum, as well as in several other 
genera belonging to different families of plants. These papers having 
been carefully examined, and compared with Mr. Griffith’s memoirs 
published in the ‘ Linnean Transactions, it was found that the bulk 
of them consisted of the materials from which he had constructed his 
memoir ‘ On Santalum, Osyris, Loranthus and Viscum,’ printed in the 
nineteenth volume of the Society’s ‘ Transactions.’ In that paper he 
has given from these materials, in greater or less detail, all that he 
himself considered necessary to the elucidation of his subject ; and it 
does not appear (as might indeed be expected) that anything could 
be advantageously added to what he himself communicated to the 
Society. There are, however, some notes on the genus Modeccop- 
sis, of which the characters only have appeared in our ‘ Proceedings’ 
(vol. i. p. 171), and which in some of the sketches is named Dacty- 
lium vagum ; on another plant presumed by Mr. Griffith to belong to 
Santalaceze ; and on various Cucurbitaceous plants, affording some 
new and unpublished facts on the development of their several ovula, 
which it was thought desirable to lay before the Society, as supple- 
mentary to Mr. Griffith’s communications on that important subject. 
