224 BOTANICAL NOTES^ KOTICES, AND QUERIES. \July. 



printer's error, as is indeed implied by the (?) of the reader who corrected 

 the proof-sheets, which the writer had no opportunity of revising himself. 

 Those botanists wlio are in the habit of referring to the latest (fourth) 

 edition of the ' Manual,' or to the paper published by Mr. Babington in 

 the ' Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ' (vol. v. part ii.), 

 will hardly require to be told that only twelve species of the Batrachian 

 section have hitherto been recognized in Great Britain. 



A. Gr. More, 



Benibridge, June 2, 1860. 



CuscuTA Trifolii. 



From the 'Gardeners' Chronicle,' Feb. 4, 1860, Mr. Babington has 

 ascertained that this agricultural pest was noticed and published by Mr. 

 Dickson in 1800. It further appears from the same article that Clover is 

 attacked by another Dodder, viz. one called Cuscuta approximata. The 

 former, viz. C. Trifolii, is said to be of European, not Asiatic, origin ; 

 also, that it is " common in several parts of the country." The farmers 

 of Kent and SuiTey find it by far too common, and it is not confined to 

 these two southern counties. 



Good-Henry. (See ' Phytologist,' vol. iv. p. 64.) 



" Germani banc plantam, a foetido odore, ' gut oder stolz Heinrich ' vo- 

 cant, neque aliud ejus nomen cognoscere midique potui." — Tragus, 715, 

 in loco. 



Ancient Keys. 



Will the following note fi'om Dr. LoAvth's ' Isaiah,' help your readers in 

 finding the tme Culverkey flower named in Walton in his ' Angler ' ? " Isaiah 

 xxii. 37. A key is an emblem of trust, and the expression alludes to the 

 fashion of keys in old time, which were long and made like a hook, and 

 then laid upon the shoulder and worn there as the badge of an office." 



On Stratiotes aloides. 



Tliis plant (see Eeview in Nat. Hist. Eev. p. 156, and Geographic 

 Botanique, 714) is considered an alien, introduced from the East. Java, 

 Moluccas, and Malabar are given as its natural homes. 



The following extract from Linnaeus's ' Tour in Lapland ' (Lachesis 

 Lapponica), vol. ii. p. 152, may throw some light on the subject of the 

 distribution of this plant : — " In my jom-ney this day, Aug-ust 11, between 

 Kimi and Tornea, I met with the Stratiotes aloides* and the Butomus um- 

 bellatus, as weU as the Mosoraora {Coimus suecica), the spotted Palma- 

 Christi {OrcJiis maculata), and the Gnidium (Mezereon). ... I found 

 also the Lady's-slipper {Cypripedium Calceolus).''' 



Communications Jiave been received from 

 A. G. More ; John Sim , W. W. Beeves ; Mrs. Merrifield ; H. Ibbot- 

 son ; E. Clowes ; Dr. Holmes ; Sidney Beisley, etc. 



* " Ad flumen Kemensem, in fossa sub aqua nascentem, semel legi " (Flora Lap- 

 ponica, p. 180, no. 222). 



