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of the three has anything to do with the Swede, of which specimens may 
often be seen in flower in spring, in fields that have had a crop of the 
plant drawn from them the preceding autumn or winter. n examina- 
tion, the flowering stems will be found to arise from poor or injured roots 
that were not considered worth removal with the bulk of the crop. 
I have secured specimens of this Torpoint Brassica for distribution 
through the Botanical Exchange Club next winter. 
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hoped that many other plants supposed to be extinct in the county ar 
not really so ; but that either they have not been noticed, or are awaiting the 
happy combination of circumstances requisite to their reappeara e? 
sylvestris, L., were found in last May in d t Roxeth by 7 
arr, of Harrow.—W. M. Hiyo. T dier dao 
Parr, 
Feet his Eng. Bot. (xi. 8) Mr. Syme quotes me as using 
renum as à generic name when Zappa is older, and gives 
bor 
ser. 2, xvii. 370) :-—* Tt is pro hich have 
; s proper to state here the reasons WEITE 7, 7 00 
led me to retain the nameo Arctium for this genus instead of followmg —— 
