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The former place is a rugged ravine of natural copse, with beds of 

 mountain limestone jutting out here and there, and is most unlikely to 

 have had this or any other plant inserted, as the whole has been open to 

 the pasturage of cattle, where practicable, as far back as memory serves. 



I am not aware of any other Cumbrian locality. 



W. Dickinson. 



Anemone ranunculoides. 



I have collected the above-named plant at Scoulton, about five miles 

 from Watton. In this locality it grows in a wood, on the right side of 

 the road, next the turnpike, and close by the public-house. It also grows 

 on the road to Thetford from the same place. This last station is now a 

 meadow, but was once a wood as I have heard. In this place there is a 

 pit, where edible frogs are said to be, but I never found any, though I 

 have searched diUigently. But the plant is there, with many others, 

 especially Orchids [Lister a ovata for example), also some Jimci, Carices, 

 and Grasses. • W. Winter, 



Pyrola rotundifolia. 



In answer to the question in the April number of the 'Phytologist ;' — 

 in the Flora appended to Horsfield's ' History of Sussex,' Charlton Forest, 

 near Chichester, is stated to be the habitat of the above-mentioned plant. 



G. D. 



Things not Generally Known. 



As the pages of the ' Phytologist' often give its readers the derivation 

 of the English names of British plants, I wish to call your attention to a 

 note in ' Notes and Queries ' respecting the derivation of our friend Jack- 

 by-the-hedge, or Sauce-alone {Alliaria officinalis). As this note is incompre- 

 hensible to me, I give it verbatim, that i/o?i may see what is done, in other 

 quarters by other periodicals, upon the subject of botany. 



" Sauce. — Sarce, vegetables ; Essex. (HalliweU's Dictionary.) This word 

 is used in Norfolk and Sutl'olk, in the same sense as in Essex. Beading 

 yesterday in Luther's Bible, Exodus xii. 8, 1 found the words " init bittern 

 Salsen," which our translation renders "with bitter herbs." Probably, 

 then, the East-Anglian word is a remnant of the Saxon. I find in Fliigers 

 Dictionary, part ii., Whittaker's edition, " Salse, f. (pi. n. sauce)." But in 

 parti. (English-German) I do not find " sauce" translated "Salse." We 

 have the word applied to one of the popular names of Alliaria officinalis, 

 Jack-by-the-hedge, or Sauce-alone. May not Sauce-alone mean Sauce- 

 a-lane, i. e. sauce (herb) a (at or by) lane ? — G. E. Frere. 



"Rot/don Sail, Diss." S. BeISLY. 



More Materials for the Manufacture or Paper. 



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 the silk, linen, mohair, and. paper trades. The fibres have been sent to 

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