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Brandon, Kerry, and on Ben Bulben in Sligo. It oceurs in nits ti 
discovered site in some profusion. As another contribution 
se 7a botany, i may mention the occurrence of Gnaphalium lipid 
a sho Mountain, at f upwards of 
2000 feet, ahs ma from Clevaun Lake, where it grows in a small and 
Cybele Britannica.” Hymenophyllum Wilsoni grows on cliffs above 
Clevaun Lake, on the side of afullaghelevaun Mountain, at an altitude 
of over 2400 feet.—H. C. Harr 
N THE PERENNIAL DURATION oF STELLARIA ULIGINosA, Durr 
For some time past I have suspected our leading British Botanists to 
be in error in describing this species as an annual, and ¢ 
duration, Ee eae that Boswell Syme in “ English Botany, 
Hooker in his ‘‘ Student’s Flora, ” Bentham i in his ‘‘ Handbook,” Babing- 
ton in the * "Mame ” and Lindle ey in his “‘ Synopsis,” all speak of it as 
The i i 
originated from the ends of the old stems now buried in the mud 
below and fast decaying, since all the nutriment required can be 
obtained by the roots that have Eg out from lowest joints of 
the younger portion beyond.—T. R. Arcuzer Bar 
F GatancaL.—Whilst engaged lately in looking 
Neha 2 duplicates for “distribution, I found, amongst Mr. 
Taintor’ s original specimens of my A/pinia officinarum, a plant with 
ble 
tenuiter longitrorsus lineolato repre 5 sco cori race seminibus 
plurimis mucoso-arillatis obtuse angulatis arcte inter se cohwrentibus 
testa atrofusca lucida. The seeds have very much the flavour of the 
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or ar Cardamom, but in a less degree. The fruit of 
Alpinia calcarata, Rose., is, if I mistake not, still undescribed; the 
plant is, however, cultivated in many gardens, and I should feel 
po = tos : 
oblong, flat tubercles, arranged in interrupted longitudinal ridges, by 
which it is marked. Its seeds - excessively bitter, and their myrrh- 
like flavour is very peculiar. Hanbury’s Hairy China Car — of 
* Journ. Linn. Soe. Bot. xiii., 3. 
+ Pharm. Journ. xiv., 418, fig. 8. 
t Op. cit. 354, fig. 4-5. 
