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occur ill this country, is easily distinguished from H. rutabulum; if 

 a branchlet be examined under the microscope, the leaves as viewed 

 laterally are seen to be remarkably convex, the apex appearing 

 almost piliferous ; but if a single leaf be examined, it becomes 

 flattened out under pressure, the convexity is lost sight of, and the 

 leaf seems to differ from that of II. rutabulum only by its longer 

 point. In the field some regard should evidently be paid to 

 habitat, H. salebrosum preferring decaying wood, rotten sticks in 

 fir plantations, &c. ; H. glareosum, grassy banks and margins of 

 woods, especially if the soil be slightly calcareous ; and H. 

 Mildeanum, damp sandy places, near gutters by road-sides, or on 

 commons. The following characters will probably serve as a rough 

 guide to recognise these plants in the field : — In H. glanomm the 

 densely imbricated leaves, giving the stem a more cylindrical 

 character, the long points of the leaves and the prostrate pinnate 

 branching ; in II. Mildeanum the erect, rigid-looking leaves, 

 slightly compressed habit of the plant, usually semi-erect growth, 

 and the leaves frequently more densely imbricated near the point, 

 giving the tops of the branches an appearance slightly resembling 

 that of H. cuspidatum or H. sarmentosum ; and in H. salebrosum the 

 spreading leaves like those of H. rutabulum , and the smooth 

 fruit stalk. 



SHOET NOTES. 



Is ASAKUM EUROPIUM, L. } A HAMPSHIRE PLANT ? Possibly 



Mr. Townsend may be helped to answer this question by the 

 following note:— In May, 1874, the late Mr. J. Hussey (of 

 Salisbury) took me to what he considered the only South England 

 station for this plant— a lane in S. Wilts, a mile or more N.N.E. 

 from Redlynch, and between two and three miles from the Hants 

 border. He had before found it there in great quantity, and so far 

 hack as 1840. This year it was only after a long close search that 

 we discovered it, nearly overpowered by ivy, &c, but still extending 

 some twenty or thirty yards along the east bank of the lane. He 

 said there was some reason to suppose that the plant had been 

 introduced by (if I remember aright) Dr. Maton. There surely 

 ought not to be any great difficulty in ascertaining whether this 

 S. Wilts station is the one referred to "in the ' New Forest Hand- 



[A specimen of Asanun 



Lyiiclhurst." — W. Moyle Rogeks. 



~ Wilts. 



not far from the Hampshire border, was presented by Miss F. H. 

 King to the British Museum herbarium.— Ed. ' Journ. Bot.'] 



Bees's Cyclopedia.— In 'Journ. Bot.' for 1877 (pp. 107-8) 

 I gave the approximate dates of the volumes of Bees's Cyclopedia, 

 so far as I then knew. I have recently met with some additional 

 information, contained in * Aikin's Annual Review,' a work which 

 professed to review all important publications of each year. I 



