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lo. A notice on a plant useful for forage of which he 
received some seeds from our excellent friend and esteeem- 
ed correspondent, Dr A. Vinson. It came from Guatimala 
of which it is a native under the name of Teosinte, it is 
the Recina luxurians, Durieux de Maisonneuve, Director 
of the Botanical Gardens, at Bordeaux. * 
2o. A paper on a very interesting plant 'of which he 
produced some specimens discovered by him in the marshy 
lands at the high regions of the Island. It belongs to 
the genus Sphagnum. 
But in the absence of flowers M. A. D. has been unable 
to identify the species, which he however firmly believes 
to be new. 
Lastly M. D. gives us a list of the plants which have 
made their appearance in Barkly Island, in the space of 
five years. The number had considerably increased since 
his last visit to that small plot of ground which winds 
and waves had driven to our harbour where it has re- 
mained imbedded. 
It would be interesting to note the appearance of other 
plants on that islet, the work would be of great import- 
ance in botanical geography in explaining the dissemina- 
tion of species and the power of resistance of the seeds 
of certain plants to the action of sea water. All which 
are questions of the day, and on which the Botanists of 
* According to M. Decaisne, it is the same plant long ago known 
under the name of Tripsacum Monostaclvyum. 
