384 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [December. 



BiDENs TRIPARTITA AND B. CERNUA. (See ' Phytologist,' vol. iii. 

 pp. 31 and 92). 



Mr. Brocas, in vol. iii. p. 31, in reference to the localities of these two 

 species, informs us, as the result of his experience and observation, that 

 they usually grow in separate, distant, or at least distinct localities ; and 

 eight stations are given where only one of these plants grows. Both species 

 however grow in or about the margins of several pits or hollows or on very 

 wet marshy spots on Barnes Common. Sometimes B. cernua was the only 

 species, and sometimes it was associated with a few plants of B. tripartita. 

 The two British species (are there any other species ?) differ in the hue of 

 their foliage as well as in the shape of their leaves : B. cernua is of a lively 

 light-green ; B. tripartita has a darker hue, Avith a purplish or brownish 

 tinge in the colour of its leaves. 



Note. — The radiated variety of B. cernua is common, or used to be com- 

 mon, about Letchmere, or near Battersea. A. 



Verbascum Lychnitis. 



New or Unrecorded Locality. — An example of this rare plant was sent to 

 the Editor of the ' Phytologist ' among other plants, specimens of which 

 were also sent from the ruins of the abbey of Lindores. It has been al- 

 ready recorded from two Scottish counties. The county or ancient kingdom 

 of Fife has now to be added to the comital census of this rare species. (See 

 a paper by Mr. Sim on the plants of Lindores Abbey, supra, p. 367.) 



Notice. 



Our coiTespondent Frederick M. Webb, of Bii'kenhead, is requested to send 

 at his convenience, a list of the semi-natm'alized exotics he or his friends 

 find near Birkenhead, and if accompanied with specimens, they will be all the 

 more acceptable. He is fiuiher informed that the Papaveraceous plant 

 sent to be named is Platystemon, but whether P. californicum or some 

 more recently introduced species, coidd not be satisfactorily made out 

 from the specimen sent. It may be safely said that it, at all events, is not 

 a British plant. There are few plants common to the British Isles and the 

 far distant California. A notice of Trifolium hybridum appears in another 

 part of the magazine for this month. 



Communications have been received from 



Archibald Jerdan ; Eev. K. H. Webb ; A. G. More ; W. M. Eichardson ; 

 E. M. Attwood ; Sidney Beislev ; John Sim ; J. S. Gibson ; W. P.; Walter 

 Gait ; W. W. N. ; F. M. Webb ; B. M. Watkins ; J. B. Wood, M.D., 

 F.E.C.S. ; John Lloyd ; Eev. T. F. Eavenshaw ; A. 



Page 337, ninth line from the bottom, for Hypericum horeale read Hieracium 

 lorcale. Page 310, line 16, for letter read latter, Also /or J. B. Wood, M.D., 

 M.R.C.S., read J. B. Wood, M.D., F.R.C.S. 



