A SECOND NEW CHINESE PODOPHYLLUM, 861 
miles from Axminster, close os the ie Smith nade in his — 
ooks, ‘Near Ottery St. Miss Burgess.’ eeke, 
: Botanist’ s Guder.é tells us that k Kilmington Hill and Shute eo 
are the same plac ‘‘Mr. Ravenshaw has fallen into the 
mistake of shea Shute Common from Kilmington Hill, and 
has added two other localities, Seaton and Woodbury Common. 
With respect to Seaton, it is too near home to have escaped obser- 
vation, if it had been growing there. As to Woodbury Common, it 
seems that Mr. Ravenshaw drew his information from the Sup ple- 
ment to the ‘ New Botanist’s Guide,’ in which the mistake was ‘rst 
made. In that work Mr. Abraham, of Heavitree, near Exeter, is i 
quoted as the authority ior that station, who, upon inquiry, has 
Dey communicated that this is ‘an erroneous statement.’ It 
may be remarked, with pres ne to the flower being found growing 
at Ottery St. Mary, that this was not correct. Miss Burgess, of 
ttery, was on a visit at Coryton House, Axminster, when she 
observed it and made others acquainted with the circumstance. 
Hence originated this mistake.’ ..... “In Kilmington Com- 
mon it has at — (1862) a range of about a mile in length, 
) t som 
newly turned- es ground.” Mr. Edwards adds :—‘ A more precise 
description of its exact locality will not be given, as some naturalists 
are of a very grasping character, and instead of a ot — 
ase has occurred where a basketful has been borne away by a 
made ances. The Rev. Z. I. Edwards, as Se of amie 
pyne, only 44 miles from Axminster, was located in a spot well 
situated for tae on the Lobelia urens at its single Devon 
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A SECOND NEW CHINESE PODOPHYLLUM. 
By Henry F. Hance, Ph.D., F.L.S., &e. 
i ae of late in various localities of the Canton Sroviae. aod 
I ae veral specimens of it alive, but it had not been met with 
in flower until my friend the Rev. B. C. Henry athe it in May 
last in the Lo-fau-shan Mountains. His specimens arrived in a 
very iuapreaioee a condition, owing to the torrential rains to which 
he was exposed, but - have been able to draw up, from the exami- 
angen of a few dried flowers, a trustworthy diagnosis, closely 
modelled on that of the Formosan plant, which I give below. 
The difference in the arrangement of the flowers in the four 
