GKINDON OK SPiilNG FLOWERS. 



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Botany ready for him to purchase at 

 his earliest convenience. On the 

 31st December, 1864, the collections 

 must be forwarded to the Koyal 

 Horticultural Society, South Ken- 

 sington — a sealed letter must accom- 

 pany each collection, containing a 

 declaration, signed by the collector, 

 in the following terms — " The i)lants 

 which accompany this note were 

 collected by myself from the fields 

 and woods within the limits of the 

 County of Yorkshire," or any other 

 as the case may be. There is one 

 thing that must strike very forcibly 

 the mind of any thinking man, that 

 is this, that the collector must sign 

 a declaration where and when col- 

 lected, but not one word about 

 naming. Why should not the col- 

 lector be bound to name them him- 



self, instead of getting the assistance 

 of any scientific man he can ? It is 

 evident from this that good speci- 

 mens well mounted, a truthful list 

 of localities, and time of flowering, 

 is all that is required to carry out 

 the object of the society. 



You will be glad to hear that it is 

 the intention of several gentlemen, 

 members of the Huddersfield Bo- 

 tanical and Naturalist Society, to 

 award prizes for collections of the 

 following Genera — salix, or willow; 

 carex, or sedges ; rosa, or rose ; ru- 

 bus, or bramble; to be collected 

 within, say — eight ol* ten miles 

 around Huddersfield; both species 

 and varieties collected to be named, 

 with full particulars of soil and situ- 

 ation.— W. G. 



#rigmal "^xiuhB. 



NOTES UPON SOME EARLY SPRING FLOWERS. 



By Leo H. Geindon. 



Adoxa moscJiatellina. — This pretty little plant presents many difficul- 

 ties to the young student. In our Floras it is classed either with the ivy 

 in the Natural Order AraliacecB, or with the honeysuckles in the Order 

 CaprifoUacece. To neither of these does it bear the slightest external 

 resemblance, and on minute inspection, the ovary, instead of being deci- 

 dedly and palpably " inferior," as in the two families mentioned, is found 

 to resemble that of many saxifrages, especially Chrysospleniam. That is to 

 say, while the perianth is adherent to the lower portion, the upper is pro- 



