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now are descended from the wild stock must always remain doubt- 
ful.””’ Not so, to anyone who is familiar with the Highlands. I 
have been told that the donate were mainly destroyed by fire in the 
course of tribal or clan fights; and the burnt ends of many trunks 
and roots still standing in the bo ogs confirm this theory. In any 
case there are plenty of native trees left in Scotland. 
Sisyr reeds angustifolium Miller. Clearly indigenous in Ire- 
land. Several new stations have been detected recently, some of 
them quite “Sik of the beaten track. 
Galanthus nivalis LL. More often truly wild than has been 
supposed, especially westwards. It is clearly native in Monmouth- 
shire ; and I should so class it in two Somerset stations ranged to 
me, as well as one in West Suss 
ucojum e@stivum L. By the mbstied and some of its tributaries, 
and probabee elsewhere in the South of England, this is indigenous. 
It has lately been found peahesh ret in West Ireland, growing under 
quite satisfactory conditi 
Arum italieum L. The ¢ cu ultivated form is different from that of 
our southern coasts, which is identical with the plant of West 
France 
Apera interrupta Beauv. I possess specimens from Culford 
Heath, Su - and one or two of its other stations would seem to 
sin the or of A. Spica-venti. But I have no first-hand know- 
Toth abou 
Gastiian inet ale Beauv. My first ot peat with this 
grass was as a plant of wood- borders i in North Somerset. It may 
be really alive in a ie spots, though usually a corn-field weed 
Several Home osreb points are purposely left untouched ; as 
it is, this r has rown my intended limits, and ca n only be 
justified by the ‘fact that I have long paid attention to such ei A 
Mr. Dunn’s book should be bought and studied. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
XXXVIII.—Joun Barrram’s TRAVELS. 
Tue copy of John Bartram’s — Ca in the library 
attached to the National Herbarium belo to Peter Co llinson, 
and contains numerous cewianiipng: 3 
prefatory note preciaes the history of the work. The preface—which 
an 
eae’ s knowledge, at the — of several gentlemen, who were 
te ‘More in number than could conveniently peruse the manuscri 
» . . The friend to whom he ait it thought himself not at liberty = 
