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254 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [AugUSt, 



The pamphlet is illustrated by many beautiful micro-photo- 

 graphs, and will form an excellent introduction to any of the 

 popular works on Ferns. We cordially recommend it to the 

 perusal of such of our readers as have not yet made themselves 

 acquainted with the Anatomy, Physiology, and general history of 

 this group — in which Mr. M'Nab very properly remarks, " Pha- 

 nerogamous Botanists end and Cryptogamous begin." 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



Orthotrichdm straminetjm. 



From a Eeport of the Proceedings of the Liverpool Eiekl Club, ' Daily 

 Post,' Monday, June 25, 1860: — "The first field meeting of the above 

 Chib was held at Haby, on Satm-day last. About a hundred ladies and 

 gentlemen, nearly equally divided in number, met on the St. George's 

 Janding-stage at a quarter before three o'clock, and took the railway boat 

 for Chester, stopping at Bromborough station. After the departure of the 

 train the party mustered on the platform, and the Eev. H. H. Higgins, 

 one of the Vice-Presidents of the Club, addressed the members from an 

 elevated position on the embankment, gave them a programme of the pro- 

 ceedings for the day, and announced that a prize, consisting of a v/ell- 

 known work on some branch of Natural History, of the value of half-a- 

 guinea, to be selected by the mnner, would be awarded to the lady who 

 should collect the largest variety of Flowering Plants during the excursion. 

 The party then proceeded along the adjoining lanes, gathering as they 

 went, and diverging into the adjoining fields as fancy or the prospect of 

 botanical recompense led them. About half-past five the party assembled 

 at an alfresco tea, near Raby Mere, and did ample justice to a simple but 

 substantial meal. When the tables were cleared, the several collections of 

 plants were examined, and the prize awarded, by competent judges, to 

 Miss Johnson, the collector of 87 different species. Other collections 

 ranged from 60 to 80, including some rare and peculiar kinds. The list 

 of new members, amounting to about 100 names, was then read, an ar- 

 rangement made for a second field meeting at Hale, when a prize of a 

 similar description will be ofi'ered, on Saturday, Jidy 14th. The late meet- 

 ing has not been without positive scientific value, Mr. Marratt having 

 discovered a plant supposed to be new to the district, the Ortliotriclium 

 stramineu7ny ^ W. P. 



New Habitat for Cotoneaster. 



To the Editor of the ' Phytologist: ^ 



Sir, — My object in writing is to record a new habitat, on the Great 

 Orrae's Head, for the very local Cotoneaster. You are aware that the ordi- 

 nary locality for the shrub is a tract of rough scroggy ground just above 



