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Fellow Nelumbium, or Water Chinquepin. Nelumbium luteum. 
Flowers, in alcohol, and ripe capsules with seeds (Dr. M*Nab and 
Mr. James). Tropical America, for example Santa Martha, and Ja- 
maica, and extending as far as the Southern and Western United 
States, rarely found north of them. We have, we think, clearly as- 
certained that the tropical Nelumbium Jamaicense, etc., of Patrick Browns 
is identical with the North American N. luteum; and it is not a little 
remarkable that, save in colour of the flowers and the somewhat more 
prickly peduncles, this is scarcely to be distinguished from the Velum- 
bium of the Old World, just noticed,—the same foliage, the same form 
of flowers, the same curious fruits and seeds. The same properties may 
consequently be expected : ** the root-stocks of the Water Chinguepin,” 
aecording to Nuttall, *resemble those of the Sweet Potato, and are, E 
when boiled, as farinaceous and agreeable as the Potato, and are em- 
ployed as food by the Osage and other Western Indians.” 
(To be continued.) LE 
Jottings on the Mountains; or Notes of a few days’ sojourning among the 
Mountains of Cuova, etc., in the Summer of 1853; by Mr. A. 
CRoALL. ii 
(Continued from p. 941.) 
Next day I returned to Glen Fiadh: the morning was bright and 
sunny, and the day, though cloudy, was fine; the streams had again re- 
sumed the former quiet murmuring, the ground was nearly dry, and I 
cheerfully ascended the cliffs on the west. side of Glen Fiadh, or Craig 
Rennet, by a stream about half-way up the Glen. On reaching some 
shelving rock at the base of the cliffs, Saxifraga nivalis occurred in con- 
siderable plenty, associated with Draba incana, and Didymodon glauces- 
cens in fruit; turning to the left and proceeding up a dry run, on some- 
what isolated rocks, I gathered Woodsia llvensis, and on rocks on the 
left immense abundance of Oxytropis campestris, both in flower and 
fruit. In proeeeding upwards, Hypnum rufescens, Bryum dealbatum, 
and Encalypta ciliaris were plentiful. The rocks here haye a whitish 
caleareous appearance, and indeed the “dry run "js very conspicuous, 
being quite discernible even from the heights above Loch Brandy. 
