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may be hereafter discovered indigenous to 
Great Britain.” The first Fasciculus will 
appear in March, and each Number will 
contain, at least, fifty species, with their 
names and references to the Flora now 
mentioned. The number of copies, owing 
to the difficulty of procuring specimens of 
many of the rarer kinds, will necessarily 
be limited. The publishers are Messrs. 
Longmans and Rees, and the work will 
appear half-yearly. 
ANOTHER HEATH FOUND IN IRELAND. 
It is not many years since we had the 
pleasure of announcing the discovery, by 
our valued friend, J. T. Mackay, Esq., of 
the Erica Mediterranea, or, at least, a 
variety of that species, in Cunnamara. 
Anxious that the Flora Hibernica, which 
Mr. Mackay has now in the press, should 
contain as complete a list of Irish Plants 
as possible, the author has not only zea- 
lously investigated different parts of the 
country himself, but successfully encou- 
raged others to do the same, and among 
them the son of the innkeeper (Macalla) 
at Roundstone, Cunnamara, who was a 
school-boy when Mr. Mackay detected the 
E. Mediterranea, in his neighbourhood, 
in 1829. Since that period, he has become 
much attached to Botany and Natural His- 
tory in ral, and has rewarded the en- 
couragement bestowed on him, by com- 
municating to Mr. Mackay an Erica, found 
within a few miles of the station of the 
E. Mediterranea. “The plant I send 
you,” says Mr. Mackay, in his letter to me, 
“resembles most, in size, mode of growth, 
and form of its leaves, which have glandu- 
lar hairs, Erica ciliaris: in the disposi- 
tion of its foliage and flowers, however, it 
is quite different; the former being ar- 
ranged pretty generally i in fours, or occa- 
sionally in fives, in a whorl, and in the 
flowers which are in terminal small um- 
bels. The corolla, which is shorter than 
that of E. ciliaris, is not" (I should rather 
soy, is less) “ ‘contracted at the limb.” All | 
these are are certainly 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
fore proves a most interesting addition to . 
the Flora of that country. "E. 
This same plant, however, or one vary- - 
ing only so slightly from it as to be almost 
identical with it, has been found by H.C: | 
Watson, Esq. on Downs near Truro, while — 
gathering the Erica ciliaris; and I confess — 
I am disposed to concur in the opinion of — 
that intelligent Botanist, that it is a hybrid — 
between Æ. ciliaris and our cross-leaved 
Heath, Æ. Tetraliz : it does seem so com- 
= intermediate in character between 
ould this idea be correct, we 
may expect that the true state of E. cilia- 
ris will also be found in Cunnamara, and 
we have already requested that it may be 
searched for. Should Æ. ciliaris not prove 
to be an inhabitant of that country, then 
the plant in question may, with the more 
propriety, be deemed a distinct species. 
In this case, we think every Botanist will — 
agree with us in saying, it ought to bear — 
the name of E. Mackaii, in compliment to 
a most meritorious Botanist of long-stand- — 
ing, who has pre-eminently advanced the — 
Botany and Horticulture of Ireland. 
VIOLA LUTEA. Huds. Sm. 
We wish some Botanist, resident in Lon- — 
don, would compare specimens of the well- — 
known Viola lutea of our mountain-pas- | 
tures of the North, with the V. pec s 
long-disputed point as to their identity. . 
Smith says, in the last opinion he gave 0n 
the subject, (Eng. Flora, v. 1. p. 306) - 
under V. lutea, “ Great confusion has eX — 
isted between this very distinct species — 
and the Linnean V. grandiflora, whose | 
flowers are twice as large, and the spur 
of the Linnean Herbarium, and settle 
twice as long as the posterior lobes of the 
calyx; whereas in V. /utea those parts are 
of the same length.” On sending speci- 
mens of our V. lutea to M. Gay, of — : 
at that gentleman's particular request, € — 
- - E ntical —— 
has pronounced them to be “ ide 
by M. Gay, in the twenty-sixth viu 
MR NE SEAS hee 
with y. Sudetica, — is the true K 1 
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