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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°« S. VII. June 4. '69. 



for when they landed on some of the islands in- 

 habited by European settlers, they were amazed 

 to learn that these settlers were a day ahead of 

 them in their reckoning, and not being able to 

 account for the phenomenon, the mariners ac- 

 cused one another of sleepiness or negligence. 



John Hcsbani). 

 P.S. In my former note on this subject, for 

 " Celebes " read " Philippine," and for " New Ca- 

 ledonia" read " British Columbia." 



Thurneisser's Descriptio Plautarmn (2"'' S. vii. 

 417.) — It is not improbable that by Rochdale the 

 Swiss botanist intends Rochdale, which he spells 

 hard as might be expected from a man whose 

 Magna Archymia, folio, Colin, 1587, is written in 

 German, and who had disregarded the vernacular 

 of Lancashire, which would be Roachdale. Black- 

 stonedge is a large range of mountains separating 

 tlie counties of Lancaster and York, and at its 

 base, on the Lancashire side, is Littlebro', for- 

 merly written Littlebrook, and possibly described 

 by this foreigner as Beck. A short distance from 

 LiUleboro' is Schofield Hall (for many centuries 

 the residence of a wealthy family of the same 

 name), near to which place Raj', in the seven- 

 teenth century, found the rare plant Meum Atha- 

 manticum growing, (See Botanists Guide, by 

 Dawson Turner and L. W. Dillwyn, 12mo., vol. 

 ii. p. 367., 1805), and where it was not impro- 

 bably discovered more than a century earlier by 

 this ingenious Swiss botanist. I have found this 

 •" species of fennel " at Pyethorn, above Kitcliffe 

 Mill, a short distance from Schofield Hall, but 

 even there it is rare ; and, if the same plant as 

 Thurneisser's, proves the Swiss to have been a 

 very close observer of nature's rarest productions. 



I woiifci propose two Queries in conclusion : 

 1st. What could induce a learned foreigner in 

 1548 to penetrate into the north of England, and 

 especially into a neighbourhood which must have 

 been at that time very uncivilised ? 



2nd. Was this botanist any connexion of his 

 contemporary. Dr. William Turner, the Northum- 

 brian author of the Historia de Nuturis Herharum, 

 Scholiis at Notis vallaia, printed in 8vo. at Cologn 

 in 1544, and of other learned works ? 



James Pearson. 



Rochdale. 



Pronunciation of Words ending in " -oid" (2""* 

 S. vii. 394.) — All English words ending in -oid, 

 except void, avoid, and devoid, are Greek com- 

 pounds with the terminal -id, representing elSos, 

 form, sort, and come to us chiefly from the 

 Greek geometers — as rhomboid, conchoid, cy- 

 cloid, epicycloid, paraboloid, conoid, spheroid, 

 trapezoid ; so also coraloid, asteroid, anthropoid, 

 prismoid, and ginglymoid, in all which the letter 

 o terminates one root, and the i commences an- 

 other : hence the terminal -id is a syllable by 



itself, so also is the a, whether joined or not to a 

 preceding consonant. In Greek words beginning 

 with oiS-, the oi forms a monosyllable, and must 

 not be read with the diferesis as a dissyllable. 



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