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Vase. de Genéve, ed. 2, 272). It agrees very well with the descrip- 
tion given at the place nore and with a specimen received as the 
suthentic plant from apin, one of its discoverers near Geneva. 
It also agrees with = description given by Genevier " “* Les Rubus du 
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placing it close to B. hirtus, from which alone and R. saxicolus he 
thinks it nevnene’ to distinguish it. R. ee Miill. (Wirtg. Herb. 
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Rub., ed. 1,no. 151, and ed. 2, no. 79 9) is very near R. Giintheri 
as stated by M. Genevier. He says that be Ss received 2. Reutert 
m Mr. Baker, gathered at Thirsk, and I a specimen from the 
locality and collector which I name R. j ee, with some slight doubt. 
It was gathered between Thirsk and Topcliff in 1851. I think that 
I have seen R. Reuter’ near Bettws-y-Coed, in North Wales, but 
have not got a specimen, and so may very probably be wrong 
in that idea. I place R. Reuteri as a thi rimary variety 
of FR. a pep defined as follows :—Leaves quinate, coarsely and 
rather doubly dentate-serrate, with a few hairs on the veins beneath ; 
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branches short, subcorymbose, few-flowered ; upper branches nearly 
simple, 1—3 flowered, very aciculate, ot and hairy ; rachis nearly 
straight. Some of the prickles on stem much stronger and de- 
clining or deflexed. Pe Nea + Sellack Marsh, a Herefordshire ; , 
Rey Purchas. It is ——e to that we are by 
degrees adding more wc more of the Courtiiestak forms to our 
catalogue.—C. C. Banr 
APPLICATION OF FIBRE OF Aoava. —One of the most recent appli- 
cations of Agave fibre scems to be in the manufacture of a kind of 
principal part being of its natural colour, but a portion is dyed 
black and worked in with it. Whether the fibre is prepared in this 
country into the fine strong cord of which these bags are made, 
answer. There isin the Kew museum a bag made of New Zealand Flax 
which is sim sat os in shape and size to those asia sold, but the 
material is not so closely worked.—Joun R. Jack 
ALARIS PARADOXA.—This has been noticed near Swanage 
amongst Wheat and Oats, and just as I have seen it in the neighbour- 
of Florence.—Jamzs each in litt. to Dr. Hooker 
Panroou capritane ‘in Essex. My friend Mr. F. Bond has 
lately eget me some specimens of Panicum capillare, L., which 
he gathered a few gees ago in Essex. This Grass is a n native of 
No America, and in Europe has been found lye near 
Toulon, at Nice, near Sie and in Belgium, so that it will 
