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Phytologist. vol. 2 - 1845, 46, 47

p. 875 In a Review of M^r Babingtons Manual, well does an able writer say, "Supposing the specific identity of Primrose & Cowslip to be made certain & necessarily admitted by Botanists, we might question 20,000 other presumed species."

p. 879. H. C. Watson speaks of another point of similarity between the flora of Azores & S. W. coast of England, viz in presence of Trichonema.

p. 908. M^r C. A. Johns (who I think seems good Botanist) covered near Lands End "with his hat (1) Trifolium 2 T Boccani. 3 T. trichans 4 T. molineris. 5 T. scabrum. 6 T. strictum. 7 T. arvense. 8 Lotus hispidus. 9 Anthythis valneraria. Had the rim been a little wider, I might have included Genista tinctoria & Lotus corniculatus." All these Leguminosae (most curious case hard to explain by conditions.)

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This interestng case as var. in one isl^d & generic species in another.

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p. 957. Reviewer thinks many of the plants conveyed to Azores, as Capsella bursa-pastoris, Lamium amplexicaule. —

p. 976. "Notes on the affinity between Lysimachia nemorum Linn. & L. Azorica Hornem" by H.C. Watson. —

H. C. W. says though not given to splitting thought it distinct species when he saw it in Fayal & Flores, & so described in by Hornem in Bot. Mag. Seubert in his Flora Azorica, thougt it only var. from intermediate stages. — H. C. W. raised plants from seeds & seeds from these yielded plants, which grew along English L. nemorum, yet presented very distinct differences & were more susceptible to frost, so he retained it as distinct species. Afterwards he received living plants from St Michaels, where he had not botanised, but Seubert had.

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these plants differed from those H. C. W. & in most respects is intermediate between L. nemorum & the Fayal L. azorica; so that he can now point out no technical distinction, yet whether living or dead can recognize them. Asks whether they be 3 species or forms of one. Adds "that several Azoric plants to which I can only assign specific names as being identical with those of Europe, do nevertheless differ somewhat from our English representatibes of the same species, as they are presumed to be" — enumerates 15 plants thus circumstanced. —

Vol. 4th — p. 131. Record of cases of plants appearing on new grounds. by Edw. Lees. —

p. 135. E. Lees describes coming on a bit of ground in the midst of Wyre Forest, which had been planted for a season with Potatoes & describes wonderful change of vegetation, how covered with great weed of Mullein thistle, Docks, Atriplices, smaller weeds. Nettles &c not found anywhere in immediate neighbourhood, shows how seeds are sown, struggle of [nature]

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p. 156. M^r M^c Nab exhibited (Bot. Soc. Eding.) hybrid from Phyllodoce (menziesia) empetriformis & pollen of Rhododendron chamaecistus, male figured as Bryanthus erectus in Paxtons Flower Garden Syst. 1850? — one of few cases of Hybrid between 2 genera. — (Is all this correct.) quoted subsequently (p. 324) as correct.

p. 311. D^r Christison enumerates several species of Aconitum of intense acrimony others feebly, others not at all. The acrimony of Aconitum napellus continues in the leaves till the seeds begin to form & then rapidly disappears. — the leaves of another species are bland throughout year. —

p. 462. Bot. Soc. Eding. cases apparently authentic of Willows, sterile hybrids, many kinds, found in few numbers between parent forms, — observed by M^r Patze.

p. 714. good History of Anacharis alsinastrus; almost all the waters are connected, by canals in which fnd, or imported by Botanists. — History up to 1852.