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well-marked an addition. Druce adds a second form, 

 alpicola, Rchb., as of Rosshire, which I do not know ; but all 

 these and other minor corollaries and agri-annotations only 

 go to further ram home a gratifying conclusion : that North 

 Britain, has been, and is being worthily and capably investi- 

 gated at last. That it comes half a century too late some lack 

 and gap in results lead one to more than suspect. Still since 

 Grant began with the Wick coast, and the now-dropped Car ex 

 ' Kattegatensis ' was exploited, valuable additions to our know- 

 ledge have been made. 



Our ordinal retailment of ' News ' brings us now to the 

 Mints. This vegetating suckerous unprolific family has not 

 increased in synonymy, and its list and pedigree in the Tenth 

 Edition offers a pleasing foil to that of the Eye-brights. Four 

 or five, hitherto called ' species.' are indicated to be — what they 

 are — even the common ' unwashed ' sativa — the result of one 

 cross, or successive crossings between the arvensis of the field, 

 the aquatica of the water, and the savoury foreign jade brought 

 over by one or other of our old-time Conquerors. So we appear 

 to have taken correctly the measure of the Mints ; or is it that 

 they have stopped ' character ' growing ? Have not * nations ' 

 of men and women been made up in a somewhat like way ? 



St achy s alpina, L. (Gloster) ; Salvia Marquandii, Druce ; 

 Prunella laciniata, L. ; Salicornia lignosa, Woods ; Coris- 

 permiim hyssopifolium, L. (Yorks.) ; Eiiphorhia salicifolia. 

 Host. (Yorks.) ; Hellehorine atroviridis, W. R. Linton. Orchis 

 ericetoriim, E. F. Linton (Yorkshire — moory ground, a slenderer 

 plant than macidata, with folded carinate leaves, pale flowers, 

 with the rounded lower lip fanned out, its middle lobe smaller 

 and shorter than the oblique lateral lobes ; easy to differentiate 

 when growing). Orchis cruenta, Mueller (Cumiberland, but keep 

 in view% as it is intermediate between latifolia and incarnata 

 and likely to occur in N.W. Yorks.). Sisyrinchium calif or- 

 nicum, Ait. (S.E. Ireland) ; Scilla Non-Scripta L. var. bracteata, 

 Druce (Edlington W^ood, Corhett !) ; Juncoides (Luzula) palles- 

 cens, Bess. (Hants.). To the Pondweeds there are few addi- 

 tions, though several new names, but ten Hybrids are indicated, 

 mainly betwixt gramineus L. [heterophyllus) , alpimis (rufes- 

 cens), lucens (Zizii), and crispus, i.e., the heterophylline groups. 

 The discovery of the first alien pondweed [P. gramineus, L. 

 Asa Gray, var. Americanus {Claytonii, Tuck), which Mr. Bennett 

 identified with P. pensylv aniens, Chamisso, from the warm 



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