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THE NATURALIST. 



N. terrestre, Br. Marsh. Yellow Cress. A. May — October. Banks of tlie 

 Calder, Thornes, Sandal, &c. 



CocHLEARiA. 1/17171. Horse Radish., Scnrvy Grass. 



C. Armoracia, L. Horseradish. P. April — July. Frequent near towns 



and villages, and hy the sides of streams, hut always an outcast of 

 cultivation. 



Draba. Ldnn. "Whitlow Grass. 



D. verna, L. Spring "Whitlow Grass. A. February — July. Heath, Woolley. 



Hesperis. Linn. Dame's Violet. 

 H. matronalis, Common Dame's Violet. P. May — August. Woolley Edge. 

 Probably taken there with manure. 



Sisymbrium. Linn. Hedge Mustard. 

 S. officinale, L. Common Hedge Mustard. A. May — October. Common. 



Alliaria. Adans. Garlic Mustard. 

 A. officinalis, D.C. Jack-by-the-Hedge, Sauce Alone. B. April — July. 

 Common. Sometimes used in salads. 



CON"SIDERATIONS OK "5P^(7/.£J>S"' APEOPOS OF A NEW WOEK 



BY M. JOED AN. 



BY FRAN9OIS CREPIN, 



Professor of Botany in tlie Horticultural School at Ghent. 



( Continued from ^age 5. ) 

 What we have called the new school is, in our opinion, destined to 

 perish, and that by its very excesses. Already some, who had allowed 

 themselves to be misled, have returned to more moderate views, and have 

 begun to suspect the results of the cultivation of the creators of new species. 

 However, this school in retiring from the scene, will not give up the battle. 

 The Linnean school will divide itself, and we shall have again two schools ; 

 the progressive school, which will call experiment to its aid, and study Nature 

 attentively j and that which will continue to make phytography an easy work. 

 Already is the Linnean school drawing into its rear ranks a large number 

 of cahinet-hotanists, who, occupied principally in anatomical and physiological 

 researches, consider the study of species as a secondary thing, as a distraction 

 from studies apparently more important, and amuse themselves with arranging 

 Nature after their own caprices. Having neither the time nor the courage to 

 istudy deeply the species already created, impatient of the new types which 



