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western poe Pere and Western ac saegghice It delights in strong 
‘damp pasture-land, and is rapidly possession of such fields. 
blown on the surface of our winter ice and snow to great _ 
and seeding in a settler’s yard, it would come up in any damp fe 
corners where the seed would lodge. It is a new-comer here, uae is 
twice as abundant as it was twenty-five years ago. Our old men 
known in some towns, it is a the worst plant we have in Berk- 
shire and Litchfield counties 
Roumex sytvesrris.—After being cite tought by Mr. Warren to know 
Rumex ayes at Paving, I find it to be plentiful along the bend of 
the Thames on the Surrey scr between Kew and Richmond, mixed 
at Pinay with abundance of conglomeratus and the true obtusi- 
adual stages of transition. I have seen this year a ar 
st. ricta i in fine condition on the Middlesex nit of the Phasrils on the 
wall beneath the ferry, close by > Church,—J. G. Baker. 
ScaBrlosa ATROPURPUREA, J., NATURALISED IN tecccareesreay — 
plant, the sweet-scented Scabious of gardens, is growing ap- 
parently wild state, and in great abundance, upon Dial Hill, eve 
don. Itis to be found on a limestone cliff, beneath which a path 
time, but since the new road has been made has disappeared ; at Si 
I failed, after diligent search, to find it last autumn. —J. Cos 
Mavi. 
Extracts and Abstracts. 
REVIEW OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO FOSSIL BOTANY 
PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN IN 18 
By Wii11am Carrvruers, F.R.S. 
Tux following papers have been published :— 
Busy, E. W. On Stauropteris Oldham mia, Sp. iss. Monthly 
Microsc. Journ., vol. vii., March, 1872, pp. 138 
This name is col for a “fossil from Oldham resembling Psayo- . 
