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Albany, N.Y. (C. H. P. n. 206) and on Ranunculus acris, Albany, N.Y - 
(C. H. P 
.n. 205). Dr. Curtis also refers to this species the Ærysiphe 
Verbene of Schweinitz, but ourspecimens are too old for satisfactory 
determination. 
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Carex DAVALLIANA, Smith—Some of our more recent writers on 
the British flora have stated, either in so many words or inferentially, 
that this plant was C. dioica. In the Botanical Department of the 
British Museum the original specimens collected by the late Mr. Edw. 
Forster *on Lansdown in a oggy place on the south side of a hill, in 
place is just above the Wesleyan College on the Lansdown Road. I think 
that we are not justified in saying that C. dioica was the plant intended 
by Forster and Smith, unless we are prepared with Bentham to consider 
C dioica and C. Davalliana as forms of one species. What authority Mr. 
Watson has for saying that the locality near Bath is “not quite satisfac- 
tory,” I do not know. a plant is stated to have become “lost by 
drainage,” some of our botanists are ready at once to stigmatize it as 
a “ mistake" even although, as in this case, the original specimens are 
easily accessible for examination, and the authority on which their history 
rests indisputable.—C. C. BABINGTON. : . 
is plant has been alleged to grow in Aberdeenshire, and in the neigh- 
bourhood of Belfast, Treland, as well as near Bath. Indeed the species 
appears to have been founded by Sir J. E. Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc., Y 
p. 266 (1799) on specimens sent from the first locality by Dr. Beattie. 
Although this would seem decisive as to the occurrence of the plant there, 
from Swiss specimens. Besides the drawing for this figure, is i 
unpublished one on which Sowerby has written ** C. Davalliana, Temp*e- 
ton, Jan. 1802, Ireland,” and “ Prof. Beattie, Scotland, 1800 or 1801 3 
one sheet and intermingled, whilst the Scotch, Irish, and English oe 
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