449 Scientific Intelligence. 
Sarracenia vuriolaris within their reach. The Director of the 
Botanic Garden of Harvard University, Cambridge, would be glad 
to receive a stock of living roots of this species. A. G. 
8. Hooker’s Flora of British India, published by L. Reeve & 
Co., under the authority of the Secretary of State for India, in 
Council.—The second part, just issued, carries on the Polypetalous 
Orders from Frankeniaceew to near the close of Geraniace, from 
p- 209 to p. 464, which ends with the 74th (out of 122) species of 
Impatiens, Dr. Hooker has himself re-élaborated this genus; the 
before his lamented death. In this flora, unlike the other and 
put foremost, both of genera and orders, which seems to us most 
natural and cony = 
Ep ago. Being an interesting accession to the Botany of the 
orthern Atlantic United States, it is well to note that a second 
station has already been discovered, by Howard Shriver, Esq., % 
Wytheville, Virginia. He finds it in the vicinity of that town, 0” 
the banks of Reed Creek, etc., growing at one place in company 
with Carex Fraseriana. _—— 
10. Woodsia Ilvensis, why so named ?—In a foot-note in Bull. 
8, Dr. Fournrer raises the question 
i is specific name Tlvensis came to De 
iter to a fern not known to grow upon the island of Elba. The 
? chitis aspera Ilvensis ; this was cited by Linneus in his Flora 
uectea a8 a synonym of his Polypodium fronde capers 
he gives ss 
nata ; to this in the Species Plantarum the na 
um Ilvense, omitti ever, to cite the synonym ° 
) on and also the habitat which gave the n M. Ch 
boisseau thinks 
