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PI. Mullerianum , and probably in other dioicous Plagiothecia. 

 PI. Borrerianum is further interesting as furnishing another proof 

 that the so-called paraphyses are in reality imperfectly-developed 

 or, if you will, degenerated — leaves, or bracts ; for the outer para- 

 lyses, instead of being capillary throughout their length, like the 

 inner ones, are often two or more cells wide below, and thus 

 indicate a transition to the subjacent leafy bracts. The transition 

 from capillary paraphyses to broad leafy bracts is much more 

 gradual and unmistakable in certain tropical Xeckeree of the sub- 

 genus Pantphy smith us (Spruce), e. g., in X disticha, X. undulata, &c. 

 Lindberg has removed PL Borrerianum and its nearest relatives 

 to Isopterygium, Mitt., which, to me, is scarcely even a subgenus of 

 Plagiotkeciwn ; for I cannot make out where the one ends and the 

 other begins. Moreover, about half the species, both European 

 and Tropical- American, do not answer to Mitten's character of the 

 genus, especially as to the " operculum longirostre," seeing that 

 the lid is very short and conical in leucophyllum, Hpe., Borrerianum, 



Spruce, elegans, Hook., &c. ; and even in tenerum, Sw., which, from 



leaves that spring from the upper and under faces of the stem, the 

 lateral leaves (constituting the mass of the foliage) being unequal- 

 sided at the base in every species. Nor are the leaves (as he 

 asserts) " enema," except in very rare cases, but often very 

 distinctly (and in a few cases strongly) 2-nerved ; and instead of 

 being, as he says, " laxissime areolata," in a great majority of 

 the species they would be more correctly termed "densissinie et 



angustissime areolata." 



(To be continued.) 



UNRECORDED STATIONS FOR SOME PLANTS NEAR 



BODMIN, E. CORNWALL. 



By T. R. Akcher Briggs, F.L.S. 



Whilst spending recently a few days with a friend in the parish 

 of Blisland, situated about five miles to the north-east of the town 

 of Bodmin, an opportunity was afforded me to note some of the 

 plants growing in that and the contiguous parishes of St. Breward, 

 ?t. Tiuly, St. Mabyn, Cardinham, St. Neots, &c. The tract has 

 been but little explored by botanists, if we may judge by the few 

 records to be found concerning its plants. As a small contribution 

 towards a list of the rarer and critical species of this part of 

 Cornwall, I give the following notes. The tract forms part of 

 vice-county 2 (E. Cornwall) of Watson's ' Topographical Botany.' 



Ranunculus Lmormandi, F. Schultz. Moor near St. Breward. 



Aquihaia vulgaris, L. Hedge-bank near Tresarrat Bridge, on 



the Camel River. , . , ax _, . 



Chelidonium majus, L. Near houses at Kea Budge ; bt. Mabyn. 



