14 SHORT NOTES. 



our late dear friend's books his " Catalogns Plantarum circa Gissam 

 cum Appendice," printed 1719, in 12mo. A friend of Dr. Dil- 

 lenius, one Mr. Randolph, hath bespoke it, ^rhen I should sell the 

 books. I will endeavour to keep it if possible for you. I find also 

 a manuscript of his above 700 pages in folio, which he calls '' Planta- ; 

 rum rariorum Hassirc Descriptiones & Icones curiosse cum Observa- . 

 tionibus de Methodis et Yiiium atq., Usuum succincta Enarratione " ; ; 

 but he hath written upon the title page: " Deest ultima manus et ; 

 permultamutanda, expurgenda et corrigenda sunt. Liber juvenilis non ■ 

 merctur typis exscribi." There are some other Mscripts, as: Rail - 

 Methodus Plantarum emendata & aucta J. Dillenius. Of Water ; 

 Plants. Description of Plants in an Alphabetical order. Plantse 

 l^ritannii^ topicoe. Designationes Plantarum Anglicanarum. It. Junci. 

 et Gramina, etc., but I am afraid all these pieces are imperfect 

 The botauick author, Barrclinus, is not among our friend's books If 

 you have a mind to know what books he hath left, please to send for 

 the catalogue to Mr. Manby, who desired to see it, for he might or buy 

 the books or sell them for me. In his answer he advised me to send 

 them to London, and he would sell them for me by public auction. I 

 would be glad if I could spU them to the best advantage of the : 

 heirs. I have bought for you Mr. Wise's letter to S. Mead, concerning 

 the White Horse, for 2 shillings. If I can do any more service to , 

 you please to command, 



Sir, 

 Your Hum-ble Servant, 

 Oxford Aug., 14, 1747. Geoege Seidel. 



[Dr. Pulteney (Sketches ii., p. 181) gives the age of Dillenius at 

 his death as sixty. Sir J. E. Smith (Corresp. of Linn, ii., p. 83.) as 

 sixty-three, which agrees with the MS. entry in the copy of the ; 

 " Hortus Elthamensis." The cause of death was apoplexy. Many , 

 of his letters are printed in the second volume of Sir J. E. Smith's 

 '< Corresp. of Linnaeus," and there is a portrait, engraved from the 

 original painting in the picture gallery at Oxford, prefixed to the 

 second volume of Konig and Sims' " Annals of Botany." — Ed. Journ. 

 Bot.] 



Gypsophila. muralis, Zinn. — In Miss Hodgson's collection of 

 Lake Lancashire plants recently kindly presented by her to the 

 British Museum, are specimens of this plant, labelled '* Jackland's 

 Tarn, near Furness." It does not seem likely to be cultivated, has 

 it been intentionally planted ? — Henry Trimen. 



Ambrosia artemisiifolta, Z., as a Casual. — Prof. Ascherson, in 

 '* B)tuiisohe Z titling' for 27 iSov., 187 i, pjints out that the plant 

 recorded from several parts of N. Germany (8 stations are given) 

 usually as a weed in clover fields, and generally under the name of 

 Amhrofiia vuxritima, is not that plant of S. Europe, but the widely- 

 ditt'uscd American weed, A. artemisiifoUa. At his request I 

 examined the Ambrosias which have occurred under similar conditions! 

 in this country and been recorded in this Journal (1871 pp. 8, 53, i 



