80 ON SOME CHINESE SPECIES oF oaks. 
Erodium moschatum. Potamogeton preelongus. 
Trifolium ochroleucum. ifolius. ~ 
Vicia lathyroides. Orchis hircina. 
Callitriche vernalis, O. purpurea. 
Parnassia palustris. O. Simia. 
ium anglicum. Ophrys arachnites. 
Carduus eriophorus. O. aranifera. 
Erica ciliaris. _ Seirpus pauciflorus. 
Mentha gentilis. Carex strigosa. 
Rumex maximus. Calamagrostis lanceolata. 
Salix ambigua. Briza minor (as a wild plant). 
An outline map, showing the districts and subdistricts, is in 
preparation, and I shall be ha to send a copy of the same, 
together with any further information that may be desired, on 
application to me at my address, 14, Ridinghouse Street, London, — 
ON SOME CHINESE SPECIES OF OAKS. 
By Francois Buackwett Forszs, F.L.S. 
British Museum and Kew, and erating other publishe 
names and localities, I have had occasion to study certain Chinese 
te) ch are imperfectly kno results of xaml- 
s. 
In 1818 Dr. Clarke Abel published a very interesting account* — 
of the journey of Lord Amherst’s embassy through the interior | 
of China, from Peking to Canton. Dr. Abel was attached to the 
surgeon and naturalist, and his book contains maDy 
‘ Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and a Voyage to and : 
from that Country in 1816 and 1817, by Clarke Abel, F.L.S.’ London : 1818. : 
+ “The cabins, in which but two days before we had reposed in comfort 2 
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hearing that the cases had been emptied of the seed collections by one of the 
rar to make room for some of the linen of one of the gentlemen of the 
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