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single plant in a pot has been the parent of sixteen such, three of 
which are now flowering. At present the heads of fruit are almost 
spindle-shaped, not cylindrical and truncated, as in the French 
specimens figured in the “ Journal of Botany ” for August last. I am 
looking for Juncus pygmeus.—Martin M. Butt. 
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Pants or Co. Corx.—During a trip last summer made to the 
neighbourhood of Kinsale, I noted the following plants, all of which 
possess some local if not general interest :— Carex punetata, which, as 
already noted in the Journal, was found by me growing by the shore 
at Oysterhaven, close to Kinsale, a station which greatly extends the 
rare in thi 
dentata. Sclerochloa distans, a grass noted as rare in the “ Cybele,” 
though perhaps not so in South Cork, grows freely in one spot by 
. ALLIN. 
On THe Frurr or Lysrptcr Rnopostrcta.—Having been so fortunate, 
in July last year, as to gather on the banks of the West River, in the 
Sam yeung Pass, opposite the village of Tai seung, about ninety miles 
above Canton, specimens with nearly ripe fruit of this very interesting 
plant, described by me six years ago (Seem. Journ. Bot. v., 298), I 
am now enabled to complete the generic character, thus :—Legumen 
stipitatum, rectum, plano-compressum, coriaceo-lignosum, bivalve, 
apice rigide uncinato-acuminatum, sutura inferiore Vix, superiore 
paululum incrassata. Semina 9—12, transversa, isthmis incompletis 
Spongioso-cellulosis separata, oblique ovalia, valde compressa, margine 
i i exarillata ; me 
Norz on Gtocurpion? crverascens, DMig.—This plant ssed 
through my hands when lately examining my Burmese Phyllanthi. 
The strange habit and different arrangement of foliage made it at once 
a very suspicious member of the Huphorbiacee, and an examination o' 
its fruits only confirmed my view. Dr. J. Mueller, in the second part 
of ey xv. vol. of DC. Prodromus, p. 314, takes in the species as 
