_ easterly station being at Knowle, Isle 
of Wight: Mr. Borrer also finds it in 
Devonshire, Miss Warren in Corn- 
wall, Mr. W. Wilson, Mr. Babington, 
and Mr. Borrer in Wales; in the Isle of 
Man, Mr. J. E. Bowman ; Coast of Gal- 
- loway, Scotland, Dr. Graham and a 
party of his pupils. In Ireland, like the 
Bponcuis just mentioned, this Scripus 
is, perhap lly distributed; since, 
in dition to looalities 3 in the West and 
South of that island, it has been gathered 
at Howth and Oughterara, West of Gal- 
way, by Mr. Babington. 
Elymus geniculatus.—May this not be a 
diseased state of E. arenarius? An 
Elymus, which I cannot distinguish from 
= it, was sent to me some time ago, b 
= Dr. Murray, of Aberdeen, from Fife- 
; _ Shire, and again lately from the same 
=, locality, by Mr. Gilbert Macnab. 
Eriophorum gracile, Auct. Brit.—* I am 
. Convinced that our Scotch and Welsh 
i 1 plant, which I find also in Sussex and 
: in Surrey (whether distinct or not from 
E. angust Yolium), is not the E. gracile 
- Of foreign botanists. I have a Lapland 
Specimen of the latter from Swartz. It 
has a taller culm, and rough spike-stalks, 
: and the spikes have shorter leaves, as in 
E. pubescens" — Borrer in litt. —I shall 
be thankful if any competent Botanist 
will furnish characters, and clear up the 
Synonyms which belong to our many- 
Spiked Eriophora. 
Eleocharis multicaulis. — Sheaths of the 
. Stem oblique, with a small point, which 
is wanting in E. palustris. Spike often 
Proliferous. Borrer in litt. 
Mr. Wilson observes, that the pale 
Spikelets distinguish it, at first sight, 
from E setaceus, with which it often 
_ Brows in company, and that the stamens 
. are always three. 
Viola suavis, M. Bieb.—This is introduced 
into Professor Lindley's Flora, on the 
uthority of Mr. Leighton, as found on 
Shakespeare’ s Hills, in Shropshire, “but 
With the remark, that “it is a white var. 
des » without hairiness on the 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Lobelia urens. The Ottery St. Mary sta- 
tion, we are assured on the authority of 
Mrs. 
her garden. In the station near Axmin- 
ster, it is confined within very narrow 
bounds. 
Daucus maritimus, With. (not Lam.)— 
Mr. Borrer considers the D. Hispani- 
cus, De Cand. and D. gummifer, Lam., 
to be synonymous to this. 
Herniaria g/abra.—The ciliated almost spa- 
thulate leaves distinguish the Cornish 
plant from the Suffolk one, which is the 
true H. glabra. I have never seen the 
supposed British M. hirsuta. The fo- 
reign one is satisfactorily distinct. Mr. 
Babington is directing his attention to 
this subject, and it is expected will give 
a paper upon it to the Linnean Society. 
Borrer. 
Polygonum maritimum, Linn.—Mr. Bor- 
rer has found this plant, new to the Bri- 
tish Flora, on the sandy shore, near 
Christchurch, Hants, “ with the leaves 
indeed, less acute, and the nerves of the 
stipules less numerous than in my fo- 
reign specimens."—The same accurate 
Botanist agrees with me in the opinion 
I expressed (Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 185.) that 
my maritime var. B. of P. aviculare is 
truly a distinct species. ** [t comes near 
to P. aviculare in 
agrees with the true P. ma 
the fruit. I have found it this year in 
Lhwd’s Anglesea station, and the Rev. 
T. Salway had sent it me from Bar- 
mouth. Mr. Babington has found it on 
the sands at Killiney, Ireland. Dille- 
nius’s Sussex habitat, is long since gone 
into the sea.” 
Rosa Wilsoni, Borr. in Br. Fl. ed. 3. p. 
231, and Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2723.— 
Professor Lindley’s remark on this, is 
worthy of attention. ‘‘ This seems one of 
the endless varieties of R. mollis, ap- 
proaching R. Doniana, in the presence 
of sete on its branches; and proving 
among other things, that R. involuta, 
Doniana, ‘Sabiniana, &c. are aloe 3 
species.” 
and the same natural 
Orobanche D aiim, Br. £k E 
189 
Griffiths, is a mere escape from 
the er ; but 
timum in 
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