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Salix parvifolia. A new fpecies: and the next, 
alae afeeadens, is a male plant, the female catkins afte mentioned as correfponding with © 
the preceding; and were we to judge from the figures and defcriptions here given, we fhould 
confider them as the male and female of the fame {pecies. This a very difhcult genus ; and 
in order to the fatisfactory illuttration of it, figures of the male and female plants, and of a 
youug not flowering branch are all wanted : onthe latter the leaves are often remarkably 
ditterent, and the ttipule only to be met with. We are, however, obliged to Dr. Sunith for 
what he hasdone. 
In January Number we find Hordeum marinum. * A worthlefs grats,”? and moft common 
by the wayfides, unser walls, &c. Dr. Smith cails it, in Englifh, Wall, or Moufe Barley. It 
has, | by Ray and Hudion, been cailed wall barley 5 and the Lexicon iahors have generally 
quoted the Hordeum. ursrinum of Pun Ys as an example of murinus, from murus. A wall, 
Dr. Smith, by adding the name of moufe barley, we fuppofe, means to tranflate the latin 
- Mame; and inthis tra anilution’ he appears to us, to be perteétly right. We can fee no rea- 
fon, to fuppofe that Pimy meant to give a different fignification to the word here than 
elfewhere ; he has often mentioned murinum fimum, moute- dung ; ; aud why it fhould be ima- 
gined that in this iitance, he ufed it for murale, which no other Ronse writer has done, we 
- cannot guels, 
Galiuur aliginosum. This plant has not been well underftood, and no certain figure _ 
been given of it before. 
Myofotis pal/ufris. In his Flora Britannica, Dr. Smith had followed Linneus, in confidering 
the M. arvenjis aud palufris as only varieties of the fame {pecies; but feveral of the jater Eng- 
lith Botanifts, particularly Withering, Hall, Relhan, and Abbot, had after Haller made 
them diftinet : by the remarks of Dr. Roth and his friend Trentepohl, Dr. Smith is now con- 
vinced that they are really fo - We ftill think, however, that this queftion cannot be fairly 
decided but by a careful cultivation in different foils and {ifuations. 
Allinm wineale, or crow: garlick. Dr Withering tells us, that the young leaves are very 
commonly boiled in foups. The tafte of them raw, is, however, intolerably acrid and naule~ 
ous, and fo durable in the mouth that it is difficult to get rid of it. Can there be any truth 
ina notion propagated by fome German writer, that the excellent flavour of larks is owing 
e ice feeding on this plant? It is more certain that the butter of cows, that have eaten it, 
not mended in its flavour. 
i February Number we have Scie carinatus, anew (pecies, ee on the thames near 
Weltininter bridge, for which Dr. Smith is indebted to Mr. Edward Forfter for pointing out 
its diftinguihing characters from the common bull-rufh, of which it was before. confidered as 
a mere variety. 
Bromus arvenfis 5 B fpiculitenuata of Knapp; which Dr. Smith now difcovers to be the true 
Bromus arvenjis of Linnezus ; under-which name, he fays, two fpecies have heen confounded 
in England. ‘The former plant g given. user this apellation he therefore now calls Bromus 
pr atenjis. 
Potamogeton lanicolatums anew fpeties, from the lakes of North-Wales, communicated 
' py the Rev. H. Davies, Dr. Smith queries if this Gan be the feraceum of Hudfon, a {pecies 
that no one knows? 
Hypericum éarbatum of Jacquin, found by Mr. G. Donn, in Perthfhire, and quite a new 
addition to the Britifh Flora. 
Equifetum variegatum ; another, difeovery of Mr. G. Donn, who found it in Angus- 
hire. 
ie In the Number for March, we meet with Ornithogalum nutans, fent by the Rev. G. R, 
Leathes, from High-fields, near Bury, where it grows in great plenty, but net properly in- 
digenous, though become a denizen of ey countries. in Europe, Its original place of 
growth i is doubtful. o - 
Rumex ¢crifpus, a very common, very Voubiemie. and unprofitable weed. 
Romex obtufifolius, a fill more common and more troublefome weed than the former. 
Epilobium aifnfolium of Villars., This is periaps only a variety of E. alpinum, with larger 
more ferrated leaves. It 1s here remarked, that. it is called alfinifolium, with poerenbe of 
fome of the larger kinds of chickweeds. To us the leaves appear only to refemble thofe to 
Cerattium aguaticums L. Dr. Smith obferves in this article, that Alfine of Linneus will not 
remain as a venus at all. We cannot help futpecting, however, that when more attention 
fhall be given to natural affinity, and the value of number comes to be confined within its 
due limits, that. the genus Alfine wilt be rettored, and Ceraftium aquaticum, Stellaria media 
of Flora Britannica, and stellaria uliginofa, will be atranped’ under it; or, at leaft, that thefe 
three plants will not be feparated. 
The. Number publithed on the ift of SPO eer Epilobium Fare a native of the 
high mountains of Scotland, 
Euphorbia Peplis. Found no where in this. sani but on the fandy thores of Cornwall and : 
Devonshire. 
Ranunculus hederaccus 3 here faid to be very ‘difing from all the var ieties of Ranunculas 
: aguatilis, 
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