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BOTANICAL NOTES. 
I am not aware of any other fossil having been met with in this portion of the 
New Red Sandstone, with the exception of a specimen discovered some years ago 
by Professor Traill, at the time of the excavation of the Clarence Dock in 
Liverpool, and by him presented to the museum of the Royal Institution. The 
fossil here alluded to has been figured and described by Lindley and Hutton in 
their Fossil Flora of Great Britain , plate 135, pp. 135—7. 
Liverpool , June 15, 1838. 
[[We have received a beautiful lithograph of this Fucus , but regret that we 
cannot publish it so as to be of material assistance to the geologist. In the figure 
we possess the size is greatly reduced, and we should be under the necessity of 
still further diminishing it.—E d.] 
BOTANICAL NOTES. 
Principally from the Herbarium of the Liverpool Botanic Gardens. 
By T. B. Hall. 
The Alpine Barren wort, Epimedium Alpinum , which is stated by Wither¬ 
ing, Smith, and Hooker, in their respective Floras, to grow wild in one station 
in Yorkshire, as well as on some of the Cumberland mountains, has not, I believe, 
been found truly wild, if at all, in any of the stations given by those writers. 
My friend Dr. Dickinson informs me that a namesake of his, an excellent 
botanist, and one well acquainted with the country, has searched over Skiddaw, 
Saddleback, and Carrick Fell in vain, having never met with it, nor even been 
able to hear of any botanist that has. Dr. Dickinson— who has frequently 
botanized over that ground—has noticed it as being cultivated in gardens at the 
foot of the fells, and thinks it probable that it may sometimes escape from them. 
In the herbarium at the Liverpool Botanic Gardens is the following note, 
attached to this plant by the late Col. Velley, an accurate and discriminating 
botanist:— 44 When I was at Keswick this specimen was given to me by Hutton 
(a collector of Natural History), as a native of those mountainous regions, but I 
suspect the truth of that assertion, as I explored that country and never saw the 
least appearance of this specious plant.” The Yorkshire locality, 4f Bingley 
Woods,” is afterwards contradicted in Withering, Vol. II., p. 235, ed. 1830; 
but it is mentioned in Sir J. E. Smith’s English Flora and in Professor Hooker’s 
British Flora without any comment. Mr. Watson has copied the Yorkshire 
station into his New Botanist’s Guide from TuRNER and Dillwyn, .but inserts 
