96 BOTANICAL NOTES^ NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [Mavch. 



flower in England, but a common cornfield weed on our plateau above the 

 Meuse), until lately, wlien looking over ' Eecreative Science,' No. 14, 

 p. 129, I fell on the following passage in an article by Dr. Spencer 

 Thompson, on " Wayside Weeds and their Teachings," in which, after 

 enumerating heath flowers. Holly, Bindweed, etc. etc., he says, " Next 

 have we the Veronica, Speedwell, or Venus's Looking-glass, of real hea- 

 venly blue " ! Is this a slip of the Doctor's memory, or of his pen? 



Eleochakis and ololeucos. 



Will the Editor kindly allow a word in favour of writing hololeucos, 

 instead of the specific name usually spelt ololeucos, or ololeucus ? (' Phy- 

 tologist,' p. 274.) The aspirate is surely as much required in this case 

 as in Heleocharis. H. 



[The editor has no objection to any innovation which is an amendment ; 

 but at the same time he begs to suggest that the verbal critics would have 

 the goodness, out of kind consideration for the less learned and uncritical 

 of the fraternity, to enter, along with the neio name, that by which the 

 plant is more commonly known.] 



BoTRYCHiUM Lunaria, cm'ious var. of, with compound fronds, on the 

 hill above Llandderfel, between the farm called Maes-y-Clawd and Coed- 

 y-Derw. — J. Jones, 1860. 



Notice. — Mr. George Wolsey, of St. Andrew's, Guernsey, hereby no- 

 tifies that he is now ready to supply dried specimens of Isoetes Hysirix on 

 the following terms, viz. :• — He will send three specimens for six penny 

 postage-stamps, sent in an envelope, enclosing an empty envelope, stamped 

 and addressed to the applicant. — Note : Mr. Wolsey, the discoverer of 

 this interesting novelty, can supply any number of examples on these con- 

 ditions. 



Communications have been received from 



W. Richardson; Peter Inchbald ; J. G.Baker; John Sim; A. G. More; 

 J. B. Wood, M.D., F.R.C.S.; W. Winter; S. Wells; H. Beisly; Rev. 

 W. M. Hind ; John Lloyd ; Dr. Lawson ; George Jordan ; Tom Stans- 

 field ; George Wolsey ; Thomas Moore ; William Pamplin ; H. C. 



BOOKS AND NEWSPAPEES EECEIVED FOR EEVIEW. 



The Todmorden Post. Todiiwrden Advey-tiser. 

 The Manchester Examiner and Times. 

 The Harrow Gazette. 

 The Gardener's Chronicle, Jan. 2%th. 

 The Chemist and Brurjgist. 

 The Kingston (Canada) Chronicle and Neics. 

 Rules, etc., of the Todmorden Botanical Society. 



A Triced Catalogue of British and Exotic Ferns, etc., offered for Sale hy 

 Abraham Stansfield and Sons, Todmorden. 



