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from Tewksbury, Massachusetts, where the see occurs rather psa cme 
over about half an acre of rather bogg und, along with A 
ealyculata, Azalea viscosa, Kalmia sop tantelit Gratiola aurea, vie 
apparently as much a t ho me as any of these. The station is about 
half a mile from the pes Almshouse. Certainly this is as unlikely a 
plant, and as unlikely a place for. it to have been introduced by man 
ne designedly or accidentally, as can well be imagined. From the age 
— A — have been there for at least a dozen years; indeed, it 
ticed and recognized, two years ago, by a Scotch farmer of 
the siciuiiy,, ‘well pleased to place his foot once more upon his native 
eather, So that even in New England he 334 say, if he will—as a 
friend of ours botanically renders the lines—that 
m Calne vulgaris this night shall be my bed, 
a Pteris aquilina the curtain round my head.” 
mh ma ay have ee jntroduced, unlikely as it seems, or we may have to 
rank protests with Scolopendrium Year Subu aria aquatica, 
oe 
resented. in the New, that. the oy are ‘inorn only at single stations, — r- 
“ late-lingerers rather than mh 
ten years, probably not for a much lo onger time. In n company with it 
wis Polygala Nuttallii, Sorghum nutans, &c., but no clover, timothy, or 
any of the _ grasses u usually cultivated. Still we suppose this species to 
have been introduced. A. G. 
IV. ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY. 
In the last No. of the Journal | 
ince 1858, together with the 
a of several of them. We now alt the elements of the re- 
1. The recently discovered gr sar sus 
Pa (61) Titania (67) Asia, 
time. atic: en _ 1861, April 21.0. 
