128 BOTANICAL NOTES^ NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [April. 



our keen observant correspondent. The range of tlie species must now be 

 extended from York to Perth, an extent of above two hundred miles. 



Antirkhinum majus arrived in the same parcel and sent by the same 

 obliging friend. These two species illustrate the uncertainty that clings 

 to recent very unsatisfactory attempts to separate what are called native 

 from what are called introduced plants. 



AntirrJiinum Orontium is reported to have been found in thirty counties, 

 and A. majus probably in sixty ; yet the latter is now all but universally 

 deemed an introduction and the latter a native. They might be put under 

 the same category without violating historical proof or natural probabilities. 



LaTHYKUS TUBEROgUS. 



The above plant is entered among British productions by Dr. C. Mer- 

 rett, in his ' Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum,' ed. sec, p. 46. — 

 Glandes terras. Peas Earth-nut G. (GeiTard), 1236. Lathy rus arvensis 

 sive terrce glandes, P. (Parkinson, 1.061). 



Note. — It may be stated that the doctor quotes no authority nor lo- 

 cality. N. 



Extracts from Correspondence. 



.... We had the pleasure to see abundance of Galanthus nivalis in its 

 beauty, and apparently quite wild, in some rough fields by the roadside as 

 you go from Corwen to Cerrig y Druidion, Adoxa moschatellina growing 

 near it. Besides the Snowdrop, we can now add to pur Merionethshire 

 Elora Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus, which grows plentifully on the lands of 

 Garth Llwyd, a small farm in this parish. The Daifodil also grows for a 

 considerable distance on banks and borders of woods and fields near the 

 railroad between Ruabon and Wrexham, in the adjoining county, Denbigh- 

 shire; also Helleborus fcetidus. W. P. 



Llanderfel, March, 1861. 



Coninmnications have been received from 



John Sim ; John Lloyd ; Charles Howie ; George Wolsey ; Tom Stans- 

 field; C. J. Ashfield; W. Winter; H. S. Fisher; Haniet Beisly; Sidney 

 Beisly; J. B. Mackay; J. S. M. ; Rev. W. M. Hind; W. Paraplin; J. 

 G. Baker. 



BOOKS EECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 



Flora of Preston and its Neighbourhood, Parts I. and II. 

 The Gardeners' Chronicle, Feb. \&th. 

 The Chemist and Druggist. 

 Notes on Books. 



The Todmorden Post, March 9 th. 



The Preston Chronicle, March \lth, July \Wi, and August Wth, 1860. 

 A Priced List of Hardy, Herbaceous, and Alpine Plants, by A. Stans- 

 Jield and Sons, Todmorden. 



