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Title: Journal of botany, British and foreign
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Trimen, Henry, 1843-1896 Britten, James, 1846-1924 Ramsbottom, John, 1885- Seemann, Berthold, 1825-1871 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938
Subjects: Plants Plants -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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free) will be received by the publishers, Messrs. Churchill, NewBurlington Street. Among those selected for the F.R.S. this year are W. Archer, ofDublin, the author of numerous memoirs and researches in the Algae,and Dr. Brandis, whose Forest-Elora of India was recently noticed inour pages. Dr. Masters has been appointed one of the examiners in Botanyat the University of London. The death on March 20th is announced of Dr. Peder AndreasChristian Heiberg, best known by his ** Conspectus criticus Dia-tomacearum Danicarum, published in 1863. The collections of the late Rev. R, T. Lowe are to be divided betweenthe herbaria of Kew and the British Museum, the former taking anyuniques. These specimens are important as containing the types ofMr. Lowes (unfortunately incomplete) Manual Flora of Madeira. VVe understand that a somewhat similar bequest of his collectionswas made by Mr. D. Hanbury. He also left by will £100 each tothe libraries of the Linnean and Pharmaceutical Societies. Tab. 164
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Car ex oriiith.opoda, Willd. 193 (©riginal SHrticIc^, CAREX ORNITHOPODA, JFilld., AS A BRITISH PLANT. By Henry Teimen, M.B., F.L.S. (Tab. 164.) The discovery of this Sedge as a native of England was made inMay, 1874, by Messrs. John Whitehead and H. IsTewton, as brieflyrecorded in this Journal last year (p. 371). The specimens thensent being in too young a state for satisfactory description, I post-poned giving a figure of the plant until another season. To Mr.Whiteheads kindness the readers of this Journal are indebted fora good series of plants collected this year, from which the accom-panying plate and description have been made. The specimens weregathered on May 22nd, 1875, on dry grassy banks, and on theledges of dry and exposed limestone rocks in Millers Dale, Derby-shire, the only place in this country where the species has as yet beenobserved.* C. ornithopoda was first clearly separated from its allies by Will-denow in 1804, having been previously confounded by AUioni, Host,S

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