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from Connemara, aan true Tetralix, EH. Mackayi, and E. Stuarti, 
and referred to the new find of E. Crawfordi, at the same time 
pointing out that a well} known garden form—T7’. Lawsoni [F. Law- 
soniana] —had, so far as he could discover, no history, and that it 
probably ma be found in Connemara along with the others. He 
desired to direct the attention of Irish botanists to this last form, 
and also to controvert the statement of Linton in a recent number 
[July, 1902] of the Annals of Scottish Natural History, where he, 
unaware, as since has been found out, of the careful account by 
Dr. J. Muir ——o Macfarlane in the Transactions of the Botanical 
Society of Edinburgh many years ago [xvii. 63, 18922], describes 
as he thinks for the first time the form Stuarti, and makes it out to 
be a *appetie of mediterranea. The question of its being a hybrid was 
discussed by Macfarlane, and by his observations as well as his 
iacledian Balfour’s) own, he is convinced that there is no medi- 
terranea blood in Stuarti, although, as may be seen in rs cro 
Society’s Transactions, he was qinpoed at first to look for som 
relationship with mediterranea.” We find no cestaation in Ds 
Macfarlane’s paper of his ss bee disposition to consider EF. Stua 
related to . mediterranea: he says: ‘‘I must conclude that this j is 
& very pronounced type of divengetie from E. Tetralia:, though the 
points of divergence do not lead to any other British form”; and 
he does not mention having held any other opinion. 
We welcome a fresh instalment of the Flora of China published 
tains the completion of the Salicacee by Mr. I. H. Burkill; the 
Conifere by Dr. Masters; and the Cycad dacee by Sir W. T. Thiselton- 
Dyer. It has been said that the delay in publishing this instalment 
—the preceding appeared in December, 1899—was due : oat 
hardly have been the case, as the order occupies little more liad 
two pages, and includes ‘ely four well-known species. We are gla 
to learn that the.conclusion of the work is not likely to be long 
delayed ; the present volume has taken thirteen years to produce 
and the work began in 1886, so that it cannot present crticins like 
a consistent representation of the Chinese flora at any one period. 
It is to be regretted that the name of the author of each portion 
does not appear at the head of the page. 
Ar the meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 
Society on Oct. 21st, the President, Mr. Charles Bailey, read a paper 
**On the Adventitious Vegetation of the Sandhills of St. Anne’s-on- 
whi 
fully established on many a the 8 san 
lants to appear on the sides oi ne 
it j is an finarloat plant which has been established on other parts 
of the Lancashire coast for the last seventy or eighty years. The 
second is an annual belongs age ao tn 
to the country between Western Asia 
nonicum, It 15 frequent on the sandhills and roadsides, and is 
