BOTANICAL 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
( Continued from p. 86. ) 
Erica Mackait. 
Mag. p. This supposed species is of 
each interest to Botanists, as uniting two, 
apparently very distinct plants, Æ. Tetraliz 
Hook. Comp. to Bot. 
= in some they are so minute as to be 
E.- difficulty. The objection to three 
ermedium does to G. rivale and G. ur- 
. H.C. Watson. 
Eriophorum angustifolium and pubes- 
cens. Can we count more species than 
these two? Winch says, in the Flora of 
Northumberland and Durham, “ I suspect 
slender specimens of both Eriophorum 
ustifolium and Eriophorum pubescens 
3 under the name of E. gracile.” lam 
> that large specimens of each pass un- 
T the name of Æ, polystachion. Wah- 
in his Flora Lapponica, has de- 
ibed E. pomo * pedunculis scabris." 
s ne Some of the Not- 
shire specimens must be referred 
C. speciosus, as described in the British 
I received them from Mr. Cooper. 
Watson. 
tuca loliacea. How is this to be 
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INFORMATION. 
distinguished from Lolium? Withering 
observes, that there is sometimes a minute 
inner valve to the calyx in the genus Lo- 
lium. Smith says that the inner valve of 
the calyx is sometimes wanting in Festuca 
loliacea ; examples of which occur in my 
Herbarium. H. C. Watson. 
Trifolium filiforme. I have a specimen 
of this (or, possibly, 7. procumbens,) in 
which the corolla is not persistent. There 
are no seeds in the pods. Sent from Not- 
tingham by Mr. Cooper. 
Salix Meyeriana must be struck out 
from the British list, unless new evidence 
prove it British. . I have convinced myself 
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Anderson’s garden, a dwarf shrub, differing 
from both S. Meyeriana and S. pentandra. 
W. Borrer. 
We are happy to be able to announce 
that the 5th and last volume of Sir James 
Smith’s English Flora, (or the 2nd and 
last of Hooker’s British Flora,) is at length 
sens with the 2nd part of that volume, 
which is entirely occupied with the Fungi. 
Of the merits of this part, the writer of 
the present article is entitled to express his 
opinion, because, feeling his own incompe- 
tency to do justice to that obscure and diffi- 
cult family of plants, he has procured the 
assistance of his valued friend, the Rev. J. 
Berkeley, who has long studied the Fungi 
with great attention, and who is now actually 
preparing (as already announced in this 
work) for publication a series of specimens 
illustrative of the British species. To this 
gentleman we are indebted for the whole of 
this portion of the Flora, and we are sure 
that in no Flora of any part of the world 
has the subject to which it relates been 
treated with more care and skill than have 
sa here displayed in Mr. Berkeley: 
ssess now, what has long been a 
fei ausa in this country, a comple 
Flora, including all the discoveries that 
have been made down to the period of its 
publication, and these arranged according 
to the latest improvements in the Ordeni 
and Genera. 
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