288 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [September. 



have learnt his decision, the readers of the ' Phytologist' shall know it. 

 Meanwhile, I shall be glad to send specimens to any person who feels 

 himself competent to assign to it its proper name. 



Orasmere. EdWIN GbEEN. 



Fleur-de-lis, or Flower-de-lis. 



In Webster's Dictionary of the English LangTiage he says : — " This is 

 the Iris, a genus of monogynian trianders, called also Elag-flower, and 

 often written incorrectly ' Flower-de-Luce.' The species are numerous." 



I wish to know what particular kind of Iris, or other flower, was origi- 

 nally named Fleur-de-Lis, and at what period it was first used in heraldry, 

 and the meaning thereof. 



The figure we see on ancient shields and in coats-of-arms (called Fleur- 

 de-Lis) is more like to the head of a spear than a flower, even the Lily or 

 Iris ; and I think it more resembles the leaf of some species of Trefoil, 

 which it may have been originally intended for, as emblematic of the Tri- 

 nity. S. B. 



Additional Devonshire Plants. 



Cerastium pumilum. Daddy-hole Plain, near Torquay, Mr. Townsend. 

 Sedum rupestre, Lynton, and all along the coast as far as Culbone, T. B. 

 Flower. 



Note. — Sea Kale, Crambe maritima, was first cultivated in 1795, and 

 the plants were originally obtained from Slapton Sands, Devon. 



Munificent Bequest. 



The late Adam F. Weston, Esq., of Bombay, has left the sum of 

 £160,000 to the town of Northallerton, Yorkshire, of which he was a 

 native. The object is to found a botanical museum for the Northern 

 Counties, of which he directs that his nephew, Mr. Clennishaw, shall be 

 the first curator. 



Can any of our Yorkshii'e readers tell us what tiiith there is in the 

 above scrap of good news ? 



Communications have been received from 



Eev. T. F. Eavenshaw ; J. S. M. ; Sidney Beisly ; Mrs. TyrreU ; John 

 Sim ; J. Jerdon ; C. H. Johnson ; A. G. More ; Mi's. Merrifield ; Eobert 

 Austen ; W. W. Eeves ; William Pamplin ; T. W. Gissing ; W. P. ; A. ; 

 W. W. E. ; S. B. ; H. B. ; Edwin Green. 



