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Rh of the stem in size. It flowers from three weeks to a month before Chironia centaurium.

Gathered in abundance on the Links south of Bamborough Castle, and on Holy Island, N.— June, 19 and 20, 1804.

No. 321. , Though this Plant did not agree very well with the description of Juncus acutus in Flora Britannica, yet unwilling to admit a new species into our catalogue until we were confident of its being so, we adoped that Synonym: but specimens communicated by Mr. D. Turner, from Swansea, and the figures at p. 1614. and 1725. in English Botany, have convinced us of our error. The thickness of its culm does not much exceed that of Juncus maritimus, and is terminated by a slender leaf, from nine to ten inches in length: the flowers are few in number, supported by flower stalks from one to seven inches long, not. stiff and erect, as in that Plant. Never having seen this species in the recent state, we are unable to point out other differences be tween it and Juncus maritimus, which it more nearly resembles than Juncus acutus.

Near Hartlepool, D.—Mr. W. Backhouse, jun,

No. 361. ., Rh