320 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [OctobeV. 



tlie cause of practical science at Witley Court, and on the ramparts of 

 Holt Castle. The Rev. D. Melville was, from ecclesiastical business, 

 obliged also to depute Mr. E. Lees, V.P., to act on his behalf, so that with 

 rather a fatiguing route before them, only the more determined and enthu- 

 siastic appeared in the field. Among these we obseiTed Dr. Buchanan 

 HoU (Cheltenham), Messrs. J. D. Jeffery, Josiah Jones, G. Beck, H. Lines, 

 E. Gillam, Haywood, Jeffery, Jun., etc. 



The upper barren portion of Bredon Hill, bordering on the precipice, 

 displays a natural Thidlery unexampled in a highly-cidtivated county like 

 Worcester, for whole squadrons of the Great Woolly-headed Thistle {Car- 

 duns erlophorus) covered the crests of the oolitic escarpment, whUe the 

 beautiful nodding purple heads of Cm-duns nutans crowded the undulating 

 grounds by hundreds in close spinous array at the foot of the precipice. 

 The Spear Thistle {Gurduus lanceolatus) also grew peculiarly horrent, while 

 wherever the native turf appeared on the table land of the top of the 

 hill, the Stemless Thistle {Cnimis acauUs) was seen in flower in great 

 abundance and luxuriance. Of course Carlina vulgaris, rather dwarf, ex- 

 hibited itself on the heights. Other plants characteristic of Bredon 

 botany that presented themselves, were Squinancy-wort {Asperula cynan- 

 chicaj, not found elsewhere in the county, though abundant here ; Acinos 

 vulgaris (both purple and white flowers), Scablosa Columbaria, Specularia 

 hyhrida, SpirfCi. Filipendula, Sednm acre. Geranium columbinum, Onobrychis 

 saliva, and Brachypodium pinnatum, the latter in excessive quantity on 

 the higher ground. The Bladder-Fern {Gystopteris fragilis) was also 

 gathered in crevices of the oolitic precipice. Not a single specimen of 

 Foxglove {Digitalis) or TJlex was observed anywhere on the hill, though 

 they are so common at Malvern. 



Cynoglossum sylvaticum. 



T have now, for a period of four or five consecutive seasons, seen this 

 plant in this neighbourhood put foi'th from the same root, buds and blos- 

 soms, and if this fact is not sufficient to prove its perennial duration, I 

 should bke to know what is. John Sim. 



Bridge End, Perth, May 1861. 



Communications have been received from 



W.T.Dyer; Sidney Beisly; Professor Babington; John Sim; J. Back- 

 house, Jun.; Berthold Seemann, Ph.D., F.L.S.; T. W. Gissing ; H. Bos- 

 well ; M. A. Walker; J. S. M,; G. Lamond ; Rev. H. A.AValker; William 

 Pamplin, etc. 



EECEIVED FOE EEVIEW. 



The Preston Chronicle, August 1th and \4ith. 

 Ferns, Lycopods, etc. {See p. 318). 

 Notes on Books. 



EREATA. 



In the number for September, 1861, p. 260, line 12, for Lacinca Prenanthes, 

 read L. prenanthoides ; and value it as a synonym of Frenanthes muralis. Also 

 in p. 274, line 17, iov forms read form. 



