1861.] BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 159 



copodium alphium : Birnam Hill, towards summit, north side. *Lysi- 

 maclda vnlyaris : hedge-side, two and a half miles south-west of Perth, 

 Aberdalgie parish. Medicago sativa : border of a field, near Perth; 

 sparingly. CEriothera biennis : naturalized in fields about Perth. Papaver 

 dnbiu'iii : cultivated fields. Faparer Rhoeas : cultivated fields. Reseda 

 fruticulosa : dry barren ground, Witch-Hill, KinnouU parish ; only one 

 plant. Geranium nodosum and Fiilmonaria officinalis : in a wood near 

 Scone Palace. Rihes Grossularia : Den of Quarry Mill ; plentiful. Rosa 

 systila : hedges and roadsides ; plentiful. Sagiua nodosa : sandy ground, 

 banks of Tay, two miles north of Perth ; sparingly. Stachys arvensis : 

 cultivated fields, KinnouU Hill ; plentiful. Trifolium incarnatum : culti- 

 vated fields-, occasionally; very likely an escape from cultivation. Vaccinium 

 ViHs-idcea : Birnam Hill. Ver^onica peregina : a weed in cultivated nur- 

 sery ground ; plentifidly. Verhascum nigrum : waste ground, Witch- 

 Hill ; only one plant. 



Plants having an asterisk were not seen in a growing state by me. I 

 only saw them some hours after they were gathered. John Sim. 



Bridge End, Perth, October, 1860. 



Blechnum splcant, vau. uamosum, from North Wales, 



This very handsome form of B. Spicant, figvired in 'Nature-Printed 

 J'erns,' vol. ii. p. 226, plate 96, fig. a, was recently found near Llanderfel 

 by Mrs. Jones, on a mountain between Cefn Isaf and Saman. The above 

 is a new station for this very elegant and rare form. 



. . . This coloured variety of the common Primrose Ave find gTowing 

 in the hedge-banks of the lane between Llanderfel and Branas Lodge. I 

 do not remember to have noticed it elsewhere. W. P. 



Spikbnakd. 



In a former number of the ' Phytologist ' I stated my opinion that the 

 precious ointment of Scripture, possessed by Mary, and called Spikenard, 

 might have been composed partly of Attar of Koses, which gave it so much 

 odour. I find, in confirmation of my opinion, the following in BuUeyn's 

 ' Simples,' under the head Roses : — " Thus do I end this precious flower, 

 called the Hose, which the Arabians, for the excellent sweetnesse thereof 

 do call Narde" S. B. 



In the ' Ph}i;ologist ' for August last is a question by Q. : What is the 

 genus and order of the Oxberry Plant ? I can answer that question : in 

 the counties of W^orcester, Salop, and Hereford, the root of the Tamtis 

 communis is accounted as a good specific for the rheumatism, outwardly 

 applied, and it is generally known to the natives under the name of Ox- 

 berry Eoot (p. 244). 



White Bryony is generally known by the name of Mandrake iu the same 

 localities. Agrostemma Githago is called Cockle; and is not Psillium 

 Squill? ' John Lloyd. 



Can any Hampshire reader of this tell the writer what is the Squatmore 

 which Mr. Aubrey, in his letter to Mr. Eay (see Derham's ' Letters be- 



