Rie Ace ge?» 
` lately been engage 
the time, made an excursion by himself to 
North Syria, and formed a very valuable 
botanical collection. 
. M. Adr. de Jussieu is about to print his 
Memoir on the Malpighiacee, on which he 
has been some time engaged. 
Great improvements have been made 
lately in the Jardin des Plantes, under the 
able direction of M. Mirbel. Of the range 
of houses, there are to be two pavilions, 
(of which one is nearly completed,) for 
Palms, almost cubical, and forty feet in 
height, their whole sides, front, and roof, 
are of glass: thus giving them a very 
light appearance. The boxes in which the 
Palms are planted, are placed in a pit 
eight or nine feet deep, in which they are 
so raised that the top of the box is ona 
level with the floor of the house, which 
makes them look remarkably well. The £ 
houses are heated with steam. M. Mirbel, 
who is so zealous in furthering the interests 
of the garden, is also still much occupied 
with physiological researches, and has 
d in examining the 
Gingko in a state of germination, from 
seeds which ripened at Montpellier, where 
they have both sexes of the plant. 
D. Moore, Esq., who has been some time 
engaged in examining the botanical pro- 
ductions of the county of Londonderry, 
for a work which is to form part of the 
“Statistical Account of the Ordnance Sur- 
vey of Ireland,” has been rewarded by the 
discovery of many rarities, of which some 
are quite novel to the Flora of the sister 
kingdom, and one is altogether new to 
the British Isles, the Carex Buxbaumii of 
Wahlenberg, which was detected on an 
Island of Lough Neagh. The nearest affi- 
nity of this plant is with the very scarce 
C. tomentosa ; but Mr. Moore and Mr. 
àckay at once correctly distinguished it 
. from that species, by the less downy and 
longer fruit; the strongly mucronate scales, 
and above all, the absence of a wholly 
Me spikelet; the base of the upper female 
Spikelet being alone furnished with male 
han It will rank next to C. VaAllii, 
E indeed, together with it and C. atrata, 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION: 
307. 
should. form a separate section, distin- 
guished by the circumstance above men- 
tioned, of the upper spike being andro- 
gynous ;—male below, and stigmas three. 
The character may be thus rendered. 
Carex Buzbaumii; spicis sub 4 sessilibus 
approximatis oblongis, terminali andro- 
gyna, squamis ovato-lanceolatis longe 
(masculinis brevi) cuspidatis, capsulis 
ellipticis substipitatis leviter pubescenti- 
busobtusis bicuspidatis 1 teis foli i 
vix caulem superantibus, vaginis nullis. 
—C. Buzbaumii, Wahl. Act. Holm. f. 
803. p. 163. Fl. Lapp. p. 244. FT. 
Dau. t. 1406. Mackay, Fl. Hib. ined. 
—C. polygama, Schkuhr. Caric. tab. G. 
g. f. 76 
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Hab. One of the small Islands of 
Lough Neagh, County Derry, D. Moore, 
Sq. 
The HMieracia of our country need a 
thorough revision; though I fear that the 
many-leaved and many-flowered ones are 
so extremely variable, that it will be no easy 
task, with the best materials, to determine 
them satisfactorily.” I had, myself, been 
led to doubt if the real H. Sabaudum 
was a native of this country, from the cir- 
cumstance of the figure in English Botany 
not exactly according with my continental - 
specimens: but, in this opinion, I be- 
lieve, I am mistaken; for I have lately 
received many specimens, which I am 
satisfied are the true Sabaudum; as, for 
example, from near Leamington, Warwick- 
shire, Dr. Lloyd. County Derry, Ireland, 
Mr. D. Moore. Richmond, Yorkshire, 
Mr. J. Ward. Near Warrington, Mr. W: 
Wilson. Near Nottingham, Dr. Howitt, 
with more entire leaves; and elsewhere. 
But these specimens have, in several in- 
stances, been accompanied by others, which 
I have been quite unable to name satis- 
factorily. On a wall, by Leamington, 
Dr. Lloyd finds an Hieracium, with nar- 
row leaves, and more numerous flowers 
than in the true ZZ. Sabaudum; thus being 
identical with my Loch Rannoch specimens 
of what I have called H. denticulatum, 
in the British Flora, the very station of 
