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of Cornwall. I am indebted to the discoverer for a supply of living 
and dried specimens.” 
Devonshire Station for Lythrum hyssopifolium. 
“T donot know whether any Devonshire station is recorded for 
Lythrum hyssopifolium; and it may be therefore worth while to 
mention that I met with it early last October, growing, for the space 
of a few yards, on the lower and moister part of a carriage-drive lead- 
ing to Park House, Budleigh Saltern, South Devon. The plants were 
mostly small, and either had never flowered, or had lost all trace of 
having done so; they were confined to the left-hand side of the road. 
I had for years earnestly, but vainly, desired to meet with this Lyth- 
rum, and now stumbled upon it by the purest accident. If the ground, 
which has, I believe, passed into new hands, should not have been 
seriously disturbed before next summer, some botanist visiting the 
locality earlier in the season may chance to find it in blossom.” {See 
Cyb. Brit. iii. 430.] — Anna Russell ; Clarendon Villa, Kenilworth, 
February 17, 1854. 
Bifid Ferns. 
“1 would also mention, with reference to two notices of bifid ferns, 
by Messrs. Piquet and Gissing, which have appeared in the late 
numbers of the ‘ Phytologist, that on crossing the Grampians, last 
June, between Glen Shee and Braemar, I found a most luxuriant plant 
of Aspidium Lonchitis with one bifid frond, and one only, though 
there must have been at least from twenty to thirty others on the 
same root. The specimens were larger than any I had ever seen, 
many fronds, and the divided one among the number, being seventeen 
inches in length. The cleft was about two inches deep.”—/d. 
Laminaria longicruris. 
“ A notice of the occurrence here of this plant appeared in one of 
the numbers of the ‘ Phytologist’ for 1851. It appears from the date 
attached to my specimen, that in place of being the third in order 
found upon the British coast, as I then supposed, it must stand as the 
second, and in one sense as the first ; which, though in some respects 
of no great moment, is yet of some importance as a matter of accu- 
racy. The following I believe to be the order of dates :—Orkney, 
1838; Gamrie, May, 1850; Ayrshire, July, 1850; Ireland, August 
1850.”—George Harris ; Gamrie, Banffshire. 
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