193 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QtJEEIES. [June. 



in Wyre Forest several plants of this white variety ; one I broTight and 

 planted in my garden, where it produced an abundance of seedling plants 

 annually, and those seedlings continued to produce, without any variation 

 in character, for many years. Although growing in a rich soil, the plants 

 were much less than the common P. vul/jaris. Its flowers were invariably 

 a pure white. I have since found it growing in profusion in a barren 

 field at the base of the Titterstone Clee Hill. 



In answer to query of • H. B.' in the ' Phytologist ' for March last, on 

 the habits of two forms of Gyimiadenia conopsea ; — one form is found in 

 abundance, growing in plashy bogs in Wyre Forest, and nowhere besides 

 in that extensive forest. The other form is found in dry pastures with 

 Orchis Morio, and is always a much less plant, and not so fragrant. Surely 

 there must be a material difference in the organic structure of those two 

 plants to cause habits so different, — the one decidedly a bog, the other a 

 pasoual plant. The permanent habits of plants entitle them to a specific 

 distinction ; external characters are frequently not so conclusive. No 

 doubt these two plants are physiologically distinct. 



This new oak-gall, produced by Oynlps iiidicm petioU, which has 

 caused so much needless alarm, has for some time past made its appearance 

 on the Oak on the borders of Wyre Forest. Gr. J. 



Urtica pilulifera. (See 'Phytologist' for April, 1860.) 



I have seen Pioman Nettle in several localities which were not contiguous 

 to the garden of the growers of simples, viz. in the valley of the Thames, 

 several places ; Haverstock Hill, near Hampstead, etc. A. I. 



Mr. Editor, — Can you inform us why authors write triphyllos, wath a 

 Greek termination, and rliipliyllus, hderophylln^, with a Latin termination ? 



[Authority and precedent can be quoted for both the terminal forms, -us 

 and -OS. But as the feminine and neuter terminations -a and -urn are em- 

 ployed exclusively, it would be more conducive to uniformity to drop the 

 Greek form, -os, as we have abandoned -rj and -ov {-e and -on) in the femi- 

 nine and neuter, and employ -us instead of -os.l 



In ' Phytologist,' p. 126, vol. iv., Bosa cipJiiana occurs. Will any 

 reader inform the querist if this be a synonym of Sweet's R. Ciphieri. 

 See Sweet's Herb. Brit. Aliquis. 



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 Curnow ; H. B. ; Sidney Beisly ; Aliquis ; Geo. Jordan. 



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 92, line 8, for Marianus read Marianum. Our contributor is indebted to tlie 

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