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NOTE ON THE CHINESE NAME OF ZLEUSINE 
CORACANA, Gerín. 
By H.-F. Hance, PED, 
In the neighbourhood of Canton, where this cereal is sometimes 
sparingly cultivated, the common native name, as obtained from the 
peasantry by Mr. Sampson, is Kai-keuk-kuk, literally ** fowl's-foot 
grain.” I have thought this worth noting, because, by a curious 
coincidence, the closely allied Hleusine Indica bears in Spain, according 
to Willkomm (Prodr. Fl. Hisp. i. 46), a precisely similar name,— 
** Pié de gallo." 
These are various instances of similar nomenclature amongst Gra- 
minec, e.g. our own ** Cock’s-foot grass " (Dactylis), and Heran 
arabica, Kunth, which, according to Bertoloni (Fl. Ital. i. 579), is 
called “ Pie di gallo raspellone"' in Italy; but in no genus is the 
popular term so appropriate as in Eleusine, and it i is, doubtless, to this 
circumstance that we must ascribe the coincidence just alluded to. 
NOTE ON H¥GROPHORUS CALYPTRAFORMIS. 
The first time that I met with this beautiful Hygrophorus was in 
November, 1847, when a few specimens of it were growing on the 
mossy lawn at Wick House, between Brislington and Bristol, a station 
which, as far as I know, remains undisturbed, although the Hanham 
one is destroyed. I showed my drawing:of it at the time to the late 
Mr. H. O. Stephens, but he could give me no information respecting 
it, and it was not till some years later that I learnt its specific name. 
Since then I have seen it three several seasons, and in three different 
localities near Kenilworth. Is it, therefore, so rare a species as is 
supposed? The last time I met with it was in 1866, but I never saw 
more than a few plants in each spot. It is very lovely, and might 
almost be mistaken, at a little distance, for buds of Colchicum autum- 
nale, so pure and delicate is its colour. 
Anna RUSSELL. 
Kenilworth, March 10th, 1869. 
