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attenuated , and have fewer Striae; the latter characters would appear to 
connect it with E. Mackaii , from which it may be distinguished by the 
colour of its sheaths, and their having shorter teeth, and in its stems, 
which never branch. In addition to these marks, it may be remarked, that 
while the stems of all British unbranched species of Equisetum are persis¬ 
tent, remaining green throughout the -winter; the economy of E. Moorii is 
the reverse of this, as its stems die down annually. The present only 
recorded habitat is clay-banks facing the sea, at Rockfield, County 
Wicklow, where it was found by Mr. D. Moore, in company with Professor 
Melville. Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; Phytological Club, in connection 
with the Pharmaceutical Society; Linneaean Society, including notices of 
two new British ferns, one the Polypodium alpestre (Hoppe), and the 
others supposed to be undescribed, with the name of P. flexile provisionally 
assigned. 
February:—(Baker, John G.) On Salix acutifolia , and its occurrence 
in Britain; (Newman, Edward) Contributions towards a History of a 
British Asplenium, considered as a distinct species, and as entitled to a 
place in the British Flora. In this contribution we have most ably dis¬ 
cussed the claims of Asplenium acutum to a place in the British Flora; 
and we trust that the materials for properly considering the subject, here 
so impartially collected, will meet with the attention they so well deserve 
from all botanists who have made our native ferns a special object of 
study. (Borrer, William) Notes on the “ Cybele Britannica,” vol. iii. 
These notes are communicated, with their author’s permission, by the able 
author of the “ Cybele Brittanica,” to whom they were originally sent. No¬ 
tices of Books—(Hooker, Sir W. J.) Species Filicum, part vi., or vol. ii., 
part ii. Proceedings of Societies—Phytologist Club ; Linneaean Society ; 
Dublin Natural History Society; Phytological Club; (Tulasne, M. L. B.) 
On Germination of the Spores of the Uredinese. 
March :—(Leeman, Berthold) Remarks on Sarsaparilla. The object of 
these remarks is to prove that the greater portion of Sarsaparilla is the 
produce of one species of Smilax, and that species is S. officinalis H. and 
B. (S. papyracea Poir S. Medien Cham et Schlecht ), but is not intended 
by so doing to abolish the commercial distinctions now so universally 
recognised in the Sarsaparilla trade. As long as the Brazilians continue 
to strip the roots of the beard, and put them up in the same long rolls as 
they now do, there will always be Lisbon Sarsaparilla in the market; as 
long as the inhabitants of the Spanish Main continue to preserve the root¬ 
lets, we shall have Jamaica Sarsaparilla ; and as long as the climate and 
other physical circumstances of Guatemala remain unchanged, we shall 
