320 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [October. 



Plants Noticed by the Eakly Poets. 



Columbine. 



Howard, Earl of Siirrey, in one of his Poems, " Phillis and Corin," has 

 the following lines : — 



" How often would she flowers twine, 

 How often garlands make 

 Of Cowslips and of Cullumhine, 

 And all for Corin' s sake ! " 



Michael Drayton speaks of " Azurd Collumbine." Also — 



" Cowslips of Jerusalem and Cloaves of Paradise." 



The last two flowers I should like to be better acquainted with. You 

 referred in one of late numbers of the ' Phytologist' to some lines in 

 Isaac Walton's 'Angler,' which noticed Cowslips and CiUverkeys : the 

 latter name I have not met with in any other book, and the nearest ap- 

 proach to it is Culverwort, i.e. Columbine. It would therefore appear that 

 Culverkeys is one of the old names for the Columbine. S. B. 



Anacharis Alsinastrum. , 



In flower in a pond on Wandsworth Common, August the 24th, 1860. 

 This plant, which is now far too plentiful in most still or stagnant wa- 

 ters in the south-eastern counties of England, was observed in flower as 

 stated above. It is a subject of regret that Villarsia nymphceoides and 

 Stratiotes aloides are rapidly disappearing in these waters. Some suspect 

 that the AnacMris (American Water-weed, as it is commonly called), has 

 been the agent for accomplishing this undesirable result. A. 



" Su, the year growing ancient, — 

 Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth 

 Of trembling winter, — the fairest flowers o' the season 

 Are our Carnations and streaked GriUyflowers." 



Winter s Tale. 



Communications have been received from 



J. S. M. ; H. BosweU ; F. M. Webb ; John Sim ; A. G. More ; Kev. 

 E. H. Webb ; A. ; Sidney Beisly ; William Pampbn ; Dr. Windsor ; W. 

 B. Linfield, Jun. 



BOOKS EECEIVED FOE KBVIEW. 



Species Filicum. 

 Notes on Books. 



EEEATUM. 



In vol. iv. p. 258, line 23, for ' Hypericum AndroscRmum (not S. anglicmn)^ 

 read ' jBT. Androsamum (or H. anglicum).' 



