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place among such distinguished associates. Sprengel states that 

 (Enanthe of Theophrastus is CE.pimpinelloides of modern botan- 

 ists ; but some will think that the association of the ancient 

 Q^nanihe with the abovemeutioned beautiful flowers is fatal to his 

 statement. Stackhouse quotes the same part of the work (vi. 7), 

 and enters Convallaria as the synonym of this ancient name. 

 Billerbeck does not quote Theophrastus, and consequently it may 

 be inferred that he did not believe in the identity of CE.pimpinel- 

 loides and the (Enanthe of Theophrastus. 



THIESK NATUKAL HISTOEY SOCIETY. 

 Botanical Exchange Club. 



The monthly meeting of the Thirsk Natural History Society 

 was held on the evening of Monday, the 4th of June, Mr, Geo. 

 Maw, F.L.S., Benthall Hall, Broseley, and Mr. John Hunt, Rose 

 Hill, Bowdon, were duly admitted as members of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club. Mr. J. G. Baker submitted to the meeting a 

 paper by Mr. A. G. More, F.L S., on the Viola of the coast 

 sandhills. 



He also communicated the following notices, viz. : — 



Chenopodium Botrys. — Miss Atwood has forwarded for our in- 

 spection an example of this species, gathered in 1858, near Bray, 

 in Berkshire, by Mr. A. Hutton. 



Cheno]Jodium ficifolium. Sent by Mr. G. E. Hunt from waste 

 ground at Stretford, near Manchester, where it was gathered by 

 himself in the summer of 1859. New to the Mersey province. 



Potamogeton gramineus, Angl. Sent by Mr. G. E. Hunt, from 

 Grasmere, in Westmoreland, where it was gathered in 1858, by 

 Mr. E. Green. New to the Lake province. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUEEIES. 

 Number, op British Batrachian Eanunculi. 



"Beta" (see p. 189) wiU probably be glad to learn that lie is not 

 called upon to believe in so great a number as 128 British Batrachian 

 Ranunculi. 



The figixres given at p. 138 of the ' Phytologist ' were simply a 



