26 : PHYLLOMANIA. 
V. innata, Nyl. Flora, July, 1865, p. 358.—On thallus of Lecidea 
Hookeri, Scher. (Decampia Hookeri, Mudd.)—Ben Lawers (Jones). 
Spores 1-septate, colourless. 
ON THE MEANING OF THE NAME WALNUT. 
Mr. G. B. Airy lately advanced the opinion (‘ Atheneum,’ 1865, 
p. 653) that the national name “ Welsh” might possibly be a corrup- 
tion of the word “ Belge.” This opinion I endeavoured to controvert 
(ibid. pp. 690, 728, 774) by showing that the term Welsh, identical 
with the German Welsch, Walsch, or Kauderwelsch, was and is applied 
by Teutonic nations to foreigners and foreign things in general. ** The 
Saxons conquering this island," says Sir John Dodridge, in 1620, 
“called the said territorie [Cambria] Wallia, and the people Welsh- 
men, that is to say unto them strangers," ‘The modern Germans call 
Italy ** Walschland,” and the Italians * Wülsch." There is only one 
other English word iu which the original meaning of the word has 
been preserved, 7. e. * Walnut,” which in German is * Wilsche Nuss” 
(=“ Welsh Nut ”), as the turkey-cock is ** Wülscher Hahn" (— Welsh 
cock). Both the Walnut and the turkey being indigenous to the 
Indies, the former to the East and the other to the West, it shows that 
the Germans do not use the term ** Welsh ” in the restricted sense of 
Italian, as has been maintained. The Walnut was cultivated in Italy 
in Pliny's time, and if it had come to us direct from that source instead 
of the Trans-Caueasian countries, we should probably have for it a 
corrupted Latin name, as we have for nearly all those of our fruit-trees 
(Cherry, Plum, Pear, etc.) for the introduction of which we are indebted 
to the Romans. BERTHOLD SEEMANN. 
PHYLLOMANIA. 
Are there any people who entertain a real affection for flowers? If 
so, then how does it come to pass that flowers at one time the greatest 
favourites are, after a few years of popularity, no longer looked at,—in 
common ce, gone out of fashion? Our ereat nurserymen are the 
first to find out in which direction the taste ir ndn. as adt a 
plant ceases to be inquired for, they get rid of it at any price, to fill its 
