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M. cERIFE ERA L, var. pummta Mich.—There are in the National 
Herbarium, in herb. Banks, three specimens which should be 
included under this variety, but represent a very extreme for 
Two of the specimens are labelled Dwarf Myrtle of North Carolina 
and came from John Bartram; one is described as “ frutex bi- 
pedalis,” the other as “8 or 4 feet high.” The third is a fragment 
labelled ** South Carolina, John Cree,” and was put on the same 
sheet as the other two in herb. Banks. ‘The slender branches and 
the leaves are densely glandular; the latter are oblanceolate in 
shape, with a tendency to a narrow cuneate base; the apex is 
the latter; in breadth they vary — A toa little over 4 mm. 
bluntly oval male cones are 4 mm. long by little over 2 als 
broad; the oe have a patch iGte ‘glands on the middle of the 
dorsal surfac 
mong the specimens of M. cerifera are vi 98 re old 
sheets, including, besides the Gronovian spec wo from 
Hortus Cliffortianus, one in herb. Banks labelled E Pelishacle Clifton. 
Mr. Britten gives me some information about Clifton, of whom 
very little seems to be known. Banks dedicated his genus eo 
to Clifton, and the following entry occurs in the Solander 
‘‘ Cliftonia in honorem Dni. Guil. Clifton, armigeri, Tastitiod 
Floride occidentalis (Chief Justice of West Florida) qui hane inter 
specimina ad Dnum. J. Ellis Armig. e nasties misit.”’ Ellis 
as Agent for West Florida in 1764. The specimens on which the 
the Linnean Co neaioa rn ais Clifton was Attorney-General 
of Georgia in 1759. John Ellis also mentions him in a letter to 
Aiton, published in Phil. Trans. lx. (1770), 524, in connection with 
the discovery of Iilicium floridanum by ‘a negro servant of William 
Clifton, Esq., chief justice of West Florida, in April, 1765, in a 
swamp near the town of Pensacola. 
RUBI OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LONDON. 
By tHe Rev. W. Moyre Roeers, F.L.S. 
n the course of the last five years I have had echsiderable 
oppaukenitian of studying the living Rubi on the ae of 
London, especially on the extensive commons and heaths to the 
south and south-west—in Surrey and Kent. Within ii same 
oes I rab also seen Pee 8 collections of aig eae 
from the same neighbourhood. The facts which I have thus 
accumulated as to the — GascbnGon of British bran bes in 
localities within easy reach of the metropolis seem likely to be of 
interest to other students of the genus. The counties pose ae. 
