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Cartmell §- Furness.—Aiton in Jopling’s Sketch. 
Mr. J. G. Baker, of Kew, is preparing a Flora of the Lake Dis- 
trict. Miss Hodgson is preparing a Flora of Lake Lancashire. 
Compertann.—[70. Pr. Lakes.] Drained by Eden into Solway Firth 
and other streams into Irish Sea. Small part of 8.W. in Tyne 
asin. 
1.—No complete Flora. 
2.—Gibs., 846.—Gough, iii., 206.—B. G., 143.—New B. G., 310, 
661.—Robinson’s Nat. Hist. of Westmoreland & C., 1709. 
—W. Richardson, in Hutchinson’s Hist. of C., 1794. vol. 1, 
tributions to Flora of C., 1833.--J. Woods, Bot. Excursion to 
N. of England in Companion to Bot. Mag., i., 288 (1535).— 
Lynn Linton’s Guide to Lakes, 1861; good list. —Black’s Guide 
to Lakes, 1868. 
Gosforth.—J. Robson in Phyt. v., 1 (1854). = 
Carlisle—J. Nicholson’s Hist. of Westmoreland & C., vol. i1., 
p. 591, 1777. 
Istz oF eet .. 
1.—No complete Flora. 
2.—New B. G., 407.—Winch, Contrib. to Flora of Cumberland, 
1833.—E, Forbes, in Cumming’s Isle of Man, 1848, pp. 360- 
364.—Phyt., N.S., iv., 161; list of rarer species.—Mosses, 
Davies, i ., NS., ii, 20, 109. 
. J. F. Robinson, of Frodsham, Cheshire, is preparing a Flora. 
(To be continued.) 
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Native Counrry or Sertssa. — In his elaborate revision of 
Rubiacee, in the last instalment of the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum,” 
Hooker writes, under Serissa: “Species unica, in hortis Indiz, 
Chine, et J aponie culta, nullibi indigena hactenus reperta.”” Iam 
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cutting and twisting about, when delivered to the tormentors, the 
Plant is a great favourite in the gardens of the Chinese, with whom 
like topiarium is a passion. 1 know of no native Rubiacea at all 
in : Serissa, with the exception of Leptodermés oblonga, Bge., which— 
5u. € dried state at least, for I have not seen it owing—has some 
rs vficial resemblance, though readily distinguishable by its larger 
and ctly veined leaves, entire stipules, inflorescence, larger flowers, 
five stigmas ; and which appears besides to be exc usively con- 
to the extreme north of China.—H. F. Hance. 
