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times called “ Lord Macartney’s tea’’—no doubt from some sup- 
posed connection with Macartney’s embassy to China in 1792.— 
JAMES BRITTEN. 
effort made by the elms in 1909.-Auveustin Ley. 
e have received other communications on this subject, but 
the phenomenon seems to have been so general that it is un- 
necessary to publish them.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
ote. 
I clearly recollect gathering it in one place only on the sandhills, 
and that at a point not very near the sea, in company with the 
needless v 
successful, though LH. littoralis Fr. was unusually abundant and 
e. The plant was in full flower, and evidently native in this 
locality.—J. Cosmo MELVILL. 
Devon Puants: A Correotion.—Mr. Hiern has shown me 
that in my paper in this year’s Journal, pp. 172-177, I have made 
a mistake in assigning the southern slopes of the Okehampton 
ridge of hills to the Watsonian vice-county 3, South Devon. He 
