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yet. described the latter, I beg to send the specimen and this brief 

 account to the Naturalists' Field Club. 



This large-flowered Vetchling, although devoid of the perfume 

 of our common Sweet Pea, bears much larger, more beautiful, 

 and more deeply coloured flowers than the last species; it is 

 very hardy ; having a perennial root, it is a lasting acquisition to 

 the garden ; with me it creeps up bushes and shrubs, and has 

 become nearly wild. I could, however, detect only one pod on 

 the numerous plants which I possess in different sites ; and the 

 fact of one having matured its seed was, I conclude, owing to 

 the dry and fine summer of 1864. 



The species is figured in Vol. XLIV of Curtis' s "Botanical 

 Magazine," edited by Dr. Sims, 1817, tab. 1938. The Editor 

 says that its "native country is uncertain, probably Italy or 

 Sicily ;" and he states that "it has not as yet produced any seeds, 

 though it has flowered two summers." Nine years afterwards, 

 in May, 1826, I gathered some fine specimens of this species in 

 some small copses on the lower slopes of Mount Etna, which I 

 have recorded in my " Catalogue of Sicilian Plants," published 

 in the "Annals and Mag. of Eat. Hist., Vol. X, p. 320, 1842. 



Dr. Gussone, in his " Elorse Siculse Prodromus," Vol. II, pub- 

 lished two years after my visit to that island, describes (p. 413) 

 the pod, or legumen, as "rectum, 3 tin. latum, 2-2^- poll. Ion- 

 gum;" but he adds, " semina matura non vidi." — Ibid, Norton, 

 Feb. 9, 1865. 



Marine Algm. — The following species of algse not previously 

 noticed in our district have been found, chiefly amongst rejecta- 

 menta of the sea, on the Northumberland Coast, near Blyth. 

 They are now in the possession of Mr. "W. H. Brown, of North 

 Shields. Polysiphonia elongella, Harv. ; Calliblepharis jubata, 

 Kutz. ; lomentaria ovalis, Endl. ; Griffithsia secundiflora, J. Ag. 

 — George S. Brady, Sunderland, Feb., 1865. 



[_jS T ote to the Dredging Report. — In the description of the new 

 species of Cythere reference is made to certain MS. names in 

 the Report of the British Association for 1864, which are here 



