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Phytol. vol 3. p. 376.

D^r W. A. Bromfield remarks that non-production of seed hardly a presumption against the indigenous origin of a species. Hedera Helix has extensive range over Europe in N. part of Sweden indigenous, but only in S. flowers & berries are produced. do in Russia. — The fruit of Acorus Calamus so rarely perfected that its structure is practically unknown but to few Botanists, as M^r Brown has remarked to me, yet is it a very widely spread plant, beng found over a great part of the globe. — The Acorus is one of the Aroidae, fruit & Berry. How on earth transported?

p. 421. D^r Bromfield says that Viburnum opulus when planted in a dry garden, the interior flowers of the cyme quickly evince a tendeny to become radiant & abortive like the outer & to assume the condition in the well-know snow-ball tree? —

p. 488. Bot. Soc. of London. M^r Henfrey w^d take as the true example of a species in Phanerogam. in which the seeds were most perfectly & abundantly produced. But do not many vars produce more seeds than parent, wheat Aegilops. Cabbage

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p. 512. Edw. Lees "on the Disappearance of plants from their assigned localities."

Erodium maritimum grew for some years before 1843 in the winding valley; but 2 years afterwards it was gone, but I detected a colony at 2 miles distance. — "Littoral plants may remain in an inland country as relics of a past state of things" as in the Worcestershire case — other cases of plants disappearing.

p. 530. D^r Bromfield Specularia hybrida (Lately a Campanula).

The deep violet blossoms open only in clear weather, & in many instances perhaps in most of the earlier flowers the corolla is either wanting or does not open at all, the seed being notwithstanding perfected as usual. (∴ self-impregnated.) My idea received ample confirmation from observng the same want of a corolla in all the earlier flowers of S. perfoliata of N. America — Yet produced plenty of seeds: the calyx of the earlier incomplete ones was usually 3-cleft, of the perfect mostly 5-cleft. — This is Venus Looking Glass. — are any Campanulae apetalous.