160 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [^May. 



occur in this island (Wight), which is nearly on the meridian of that por- 

 tion of the kingdom. — Bromfield'' s Flora Vectensis. 



To the Editor of the ' Phytologist^ 



Sir, — On looking through my stock of duplicates, which has already 

 been gleaned some dozen times for numerous correspondents, I find I have 

 still left a considerable number of specimens of the undermentioned species, 

 many of which may be acceptable to some of the readers of the ' Phyto- 

 logist.' I shall be happy to send any half-dozen of them to any address, 

 on the principle "First come, first served": — Anemone Pulsatilla, Hutch- 

 insia petraea, Arahh petrcea, Blantlius ccesms, Astragahis alpinus, Rubus 

 CJiamamorus (in flower and fruit), Gnaphalium supinum, Erica vagans, 

 Primula far inosa, Pyrola marithna. Car ex rariflora, and C. capillaris. 



2, Connaught Place West, London, W. J- BakTON, 



T. Kirk, Coventiy, asks the following question : — Do you know any 

 botanist having spare specimens of Orchis tephrosanthos, hircina, militaris, 

 etc. etc., Rosa bractescens, Salix arbuscula, — to exchange for Equisetum 

 Moorei, Potamogeton lanceolatus, and other good plants ? 



A correspondent asks the following : — Do you know the undermentioned, 

 either in the original or translated — E Joannes a S. Geminiano de vegetabil. 

 et plant., etc. ? 



Dangerous Fungi. 



Mr. Newton, coroner, held an inquest a few days ago, at CoUingham, 

 Notts, on the body of Thomas Batter, a boy eight years of age. The fa- 

 ther of the deceased said his son Thomas had accompanied his brother into 

 the fields to look for mushrooms. They found a quantity arid returned 

 home with them. At dinner-time the boy complained of a pain in his 

 head and could not eat anything. At seven o'clock the same evening, upon 

 his parents undressing him, he screamed every time he was touched, and 

 appeared in great agony, shrinking from every one. His mind became af- 

 fected, and at midnight he expired. The surgeon made a post mortem 

 examination of the body of the deceased, and arrived at the conclusion that 

 the deceased met with his death from partaking of a poisonous fungus 

 which he mistook for a mushroom. — Times. 



Wallflower growing on the living Eock. 



It seems to be noticed as remarkable (see ' Phytologist,' vol. iv. p. 6) 

 that Mr. Sim foimd CheirantJms Clieiri on the li\'ing rock. It grows pro- 

 fusely on the precipitous part of St. Vincent's Eock, at the end next 

 Bristol. J. S. M. 



Does S. B. imagine that anybody can understand the grandiloquent 

 twaddle of " Proverbial Philosophy " besides Mr. Martift H. Tupper him- 

 self? The only suggestions I can otfer are that possibly by the 'Crocus' 

 the proverbial philosopher may mean ColcJiicnm, and by ' Nightshade ' 

 A. Belladonna. All others are quite beyond my grasp. T. F. E. 



Communications have been received from John Sim ; Sidney Beisly; 

 Mrs. Men-ifield; Eev. E. H. Webb; A. G. More, F.L.S.; John Barton; 

 S. Wood ; John Lloyd ; Eobt. Brown. [Note. — Mr. Brown's communica- 

 tion arrived here (Chelsea) too late to appear in this number ; it wiU be 

 published in om- next month's issue. — Ed.) 



