116 



Correction of an Error in the ' Notes on the Species of CEnauthe.^ 

 By J. S. Mill, Esq. 



Since my note on the species of CEnanthe was printed (Phytol. ii. 

 48), my specimens from Battersea, Weybridge and Seaford have had 

 the advantage of being examined by Mr. Watson. That gentleman 

 confirms my statement respecting the Battersea and Weybridge 

 plants, which he decides to be his GEnanthe Smithii, the peuceda- 

 nifolia of Smith. The plant from Seaford, which I had classed as the 

 pimpinelloides, he pronounces to be Qinanthe Lachenalii ; and he 

 has fully satisfied me, both by his high authority, and by a compari- 

 son of specimens with which he has most courteously supplied me, 

 that 1 was previously unacquainted with the true Q^. pimpinelloides. 



J. S. Mill. 



Kensington, March, 1845. 



On the Yellow Juice of CEnanthe crocata. By T. Bell Salter, 



M.D., F.L.S. 



In the last number of the ' Phytologist,' my friend Dr. Balfour ob- 

 serves, that in cutting across the root of CEnanthe crocata, there is 

 no appearance of a yellow juice ; but that after a short exposure to 

 the air, it assumes a yellowish or brownish tint (Phytol. ii. 87). This 

 assertion requires some limitation. As the plant occurs in the Isle 

 of Wight, where it is quite common, the juice can scarcely be said to 

 become yellow at all ; while in the specimens which grow about Poole, 

 the juice, not only of the root, but of the whole plant, is of a bright 

 yellow, the moment it is broken or cut. It is darker after exposure, 

 but is of considerable depth of colour the moment it is exposed. 



I have little doubt that this variety with the dark juice is the most 

 virulent state of the plant, having a distinct recollection of an acci- 

 dent which occurred to a man at Poole about fifteen years since, in 

 consequence of taking a decoction of it for some skin-disease. Death 

 was produced, certainly within two hours. T. Bell Salter. 



Ryde, March, 1845. 



Notice of the ' Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.'' 

 Vol. xix. part iii. 



This part contains the following botanical papers : — 

 * On the Ovulum of Santalum, Osyris, Loranthus and Viscum.' By 

 William Griflfiths, Esq , F.L.S. 



