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for this tree in the county of Hants ; but he remarks 

 (Phytologist, iii. 885) that it " abounds in some parts of 

 Sussex." 



991. Corylus Avellana, vol. ii. p. 379. 



The question respecting its nativity in the Hebrides, 

 would seem to be satisfactorily answered in the affirma- 

 tive, by a Report of proceedings at a meeting of the Bo- 

 tanical Society of Edinburgh (Phytol. iv. 533), in which 

 Mr. Macphail is said to have found some hazel-nuts in a 

 large moss drain in the island of Lewis, at a depth of nine 

 feet from the surface, where, we are informed, " there is 

 no native hazel to be seen now in the locality, except one 

 small bush, which is cut down by the natives whenever it 

 ventures to push out a sprout, striving for existence in 

 the summer." 



992. Alnus glutinosa, vol. ii. p. 380. 



By some error the word ' Midagrarian ' has been sub- 

 stituted for ' Superagrarian,' in giving the zonal range of 

 this shrub or tree ; though the observation in the text 

 underneath the usual formula, would show that indication 

 to be an erroneously restricted one. 



994. Betula nana, vol. ii. p. 381. 



In the third edition of Babington's Manual, the fancy 

 about two species of Dwarf Birch in Britain, is tacitly 

 abandoned, and nothing is there said about the supposed 

 B. intermedia. 



995. Populus alba, vol. ii. p. 382. 



In Phytologist, iii. p. 841, Dr. Bromfield has penned 

 some good remarks, historical and critical, on this tree. 

 My belief is, that the names are frequently crossed, and 

 that the localities and reported distribution of neither of 

 the alleged species can be relied upon, if taken apart from 

 those of the other. The tree found in the south of 



