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to leave Kton the next day. Shortly before my departure I expect 
to be able to visit Goodenough agai n. 
I meet Dickson every Sunda in Banks’s library and spend 
tatio ou know him to be homo literatus, but he possesses 
extraotainaty acumen in this line of plants, and differentiates them 
most accurately. He has discovered too that the much discussed 
a tomckicn is nothing more than E surculus bulbiferus of the well- 
nown Mnium annotinon (Linn.). He ound ripe a aang presen 
Lin 
Withering, 
Splachum ear ate and quotes in this connection Hedwig’s 
description and delineation of Tae moss. Dickson found the moss 
Os 
variety, to which he lente ae ene the name succulentum.* You 
have a Saeenen of this 
at the hoes Sainte the day before yesterday. A very 
ea Bien on the genus Hhrharta was read by Swartz; he 
enumerated nine species of it. The accompanying drawings were 
admirable. The treatise appears in the 5th volume of the Society’s 
eerpone. I also et a short visit to George Hibbert Esq. 
r of the Murray Her m. The best things in the collection 
“i : fone of Siberian separ (Pallas’s), and a “small collection of 
ferns from Canada. 
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Suprosep Hysrip Grass.—After having watched mes —o. 
season the development of the grass which I reported (p. 41) as 
probable hybrid between Lolium - enne L. and Bromus PB ccihc hata 
Schrad., I believe that Mr. Druce is right in his contention that it 
is a form of Lolium perenne, in whieh as Dr. Masters observed 
(Journ. Bot. 1863 , p. 9), the stamens and pistils are replaced by 
scales; and that the utter sterility of the plant is due, not to 
hybridity, but to a distortion of nar sexual organs.—E. F. Linton. 
ODYERA REPENS In Norro.x.—1 found this in poor condition 
*|[Oedipodium Gr rifithianum Sloliwacgr. 7 
