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in the Channel Islands, and should therefore be included in the 
British Flora with Cynosurus echinatus, Lagurus ovatus, and Bromus 
h 
hardly needed emphasizing—viz. that the Channel Islands are, 
geologically and botanically, a part of France, and not of Britain. 
TAXODIUM AND GLYPTOSTROBUS. 
By Maxwett T. Masters, M.D., F.R.S. 
are two Coniferous plants, one a species generally so 
considered, from China, and the other a variety of a North American 
i i plant. The 
ne genus by so 
and is placed in anata genus by others, so that, if we look to 
books o 8 i i 
The two deen I outer e e the ‘‘ Chinese Water Pine,” the 
Glyptostrobus heterophyllus of Endlicher, Synops. 70 Grae ees 
regarding the synonyms); and a variety of the Swamp Cypre 
or deciduous Cypress of Florida, Taxodium distichum Duin There 
are in cultivation forms of the latter which are hardy enough to 
Pihstaua our climate, but it is doubtful whether the Ohinade plant 
can re Without adequate shelter. It seems probable that it might 
survive in mild winters, but that it would be destroyed in more 
» as to i Brongniart, in Ann. Se. Nat. 1 Ser 
Xxx. p. 1 833), included the Cupressus sinensis of the Paris 
Garden ae Taxod er (l.¢. p. 69) proposed (lypto- 
having ‘ squamis itidultien pares . ++. Squamarum stipite e 
basi tenuissima sursum incrassato dilatato, oe convexo; centro 
are aa margine superiore leviter toroso, longitudinaliter sul- 
c 
hg seeds of Glyptostrobus he thus describes :—‘t Semina sub 
quavis squama 2, _ejusdem | foveolis immersa, erecta , ovata, com- 
pressa ; ; anguste alatum, 
bead ¥ 
