356 BOTANICAL NOTES^ NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. [AugUSt. 



what is the nature of the poison? Some higher power than Mellona's 

 must have taught the bees to shun these blossoms. In Dr. Andrew's 

 ' Latin-English Lexicon,' recently published, he gives " Laburnum — the 

 broad-leaved Bean Trefoil, Cystisiis Laburnum, L.," the meaning of which 

 I cannot understand. S. B. 



Poetical Botany. 



The following lines are quoted from recently published poetry : — 



" No fruit allured the eye, 

 Save berries of the deadly Aconite, 



Mr. Whyte's Translation of Dante. 



Has anybody else besides the poetical translator seen berries on the 

 Aconite ? 



" Eich as the cornelian with its ruby sheen. 

 Is the red Osberry-wreath round the Bramble seen." 



Ballads and Songs, hy Edivard Capern, a poetical postman. 



Will some gentle reader be so good as to tell the querist what is the 

 Genus and Order of the Oxberry -plant which wreaths round the Bramble ? 



Q. 



Ophrys akanifeba. 



Some doubts were expressed by the re^dewer of ' Sketches of the Na- 

 tural History of Brighton,' about the above plant. Mr. Wm. Barrer very 

 kindly sent fresh specimens, collected by himself near Pyecomb. The same 

 excellent authority states that he believes " that there is no well authenti- 

 cated Sussex station of Saxifraga granulata." 



The Leipzig 'Botanische Zeitung,' of the 16th March last, gazettes the 

 election, in consideration of their researches in Lichenology, of Dr. Lauder 

 Lindsay, F.L.S., of Perth, who was lately awarded the NeiU Medal of the 

 Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, and Professor Nylander, of the University of 

 Helsingfors, Finland, Eussia, as Honorary Fellows of the Natural History 

 Society of Halle, Germany. 



Communicaiions have been received from 



Peter Inchbald ; Clara Johnson ; E,ev. T. F. Eavenshaw ; H. C. ; Sidney 

 Beisly ; John Sim ; Frederick Eeynolds ; Harriet Beisly ; Mrs. Merri- 

 field; Frederick Clowes; Dr. Windsor, F.L.S. ; Eev. J. Salwey ; A. G. 

 More ; W. G-. Lindsay, M.D. ; W. P. ; Q. ; Edwin Green, etc. 



BOOK EECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 

 Manuel de la Flore de Belgique ; par Francois Crepin. 



Page 170, line 27, after Cratoegus insert monogyna, the specific name having 

 been accidentally omitted. 



