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Woodsia, and if so, the species that Linneus took it for. Also 
that, as it is said on good authority to grow in the Crimea, it may 
really belong also to the mountains of Elba 
gave some account in our last volume, is one of the latest there 
noticed. a; ok 
12. Villars, author of the History of the Plants of Daupbiny, 
s from a biography by M. Albert, noticed in the 
Kevue above cited, really bore the name of Villar. As his 
botanical works were published in his own life-time, and all under 
the name of Villars, it is to be hoped that no one will endeavor 
to reform the orthography of the genus Villarsia. A. G. 
13. Hryngium ; species with parallel-veined leaves.—Prot. Dx- 
CAISNE made a communication to the Botanical Society of France 
upon this subject, at the meeting on the last day of January, 1873, 
which is published in the Bulletin, 20, pp. 19-27. These species 
are all ican, as is the larger part of the genus; and M 
now current mode of explaining such things, that eculia 
modification should co-exist with the ordina nd over a 
Wide range d, the two dozen species with “ monocotyledon- 
had gained a dispersion round the world at the nortl me 
was “violenment disloquée ~ le cataclysme qui a séparé le globe 
our species, And if the typical species, HZ. aquaticu 
lived in the medium implied by t 
