382 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. [December, 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



The Editor of the ' Phytologist ' has much pleasure in requesting the 

 attention of all botanists to the following note : — 



To the li^ditor of the ' Phytologist.'' 



May I request the insertion of the following notice in the next number 

 of the ' Phytologist,' in order that the attention of botanists may be called 

 to the subject? 



The recent publication of the Floras of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk has 

 induced me to arrange some materials, Avhich were collected a few years 

 ago, with the assistance of several friends, for a similar work on the Botany 

 of Essex, but before proceeding to print them, I am desirous of obtaining 

 any additional information which can be furnished by residents or occasional 

 visitors, and shall therefore be pleased to receive communications from any 

 who may be kindly vdlling to help forward the completion of one more of 

 the Eloras of the eastern counties. Local lists are always useful for the 

 purpose, and especially so when accompanied, in the case of very rare or 

 doubtful plants, with specimens for verification. Any other information or 

 hints would also be acceptable. — I remain, etc., Gr. S. Gibson. 



Saffron Walden. 



P.EONIA MAS VERA. 



The following early account of a locality for this rare plant was dis- 

 covered in a copy of Bay's ' Catalogus Plantarum Angliae :' — " Paonia mas 

 vera, found in Stankhead Wood, about half a mUe from Winscham, in Glou- 

 cestershire, by Francis Collins, who took up many of the roots and sold 

 them to the apothecaries of London, and left some of the smaller roots to 

 grow again, and sowed of the seeds he then gathered in the same place." 

 The above is published, hoping that some correspondent or reader of the 

 ' Phytologist ' will help us to identify the locality, which has been copied 

 carefully fi'om the ancient MS. memorandum found in the above-mentioned 

 work. ' W. P. 



Comparative List op British Plants. 



Corrections requii-ed in the " Comparative List of British Plants," Phyt. 

 N.s. vol. iv. pp. 331 seq. — P. 321, left-hand column, instead of R. Drouettii 

 read R. Drouetii. P. 323, right-hand column, line 29, instead of CocJil. 

 officinalis read Cochl. Armoracia. P. 324, left-hand column, after Viola 

 canina, between it and V. stagnina, insert the line — F. canina, b., V. lactea, 

 V. lactea, V. canina. P. 324, 3rd column, line 15, instead of F. canina 

 read F. pumila. P. 326, Hne 13, in right-hand column, instead of H. 

 elodes read H. Modes. P. 327, 3rd column, line 6, instead of M. saliva 

 read M.falcata. P. 327, line 20, instead of a?-vensc read arvense. P. 327, 

 line 39, instead of Anthyllus read Anthyllis. 



To the Editor of the ^Phytologist.'' 

 Sir, — Mr. Green has lately mentioned a plant found at Grasmere by Mrs. 



