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though paler at the base, have blacker and more prominent ribs up- 

 wards, and they are so close as almost to imbricate each other. The 

 teeth are also more numerous, when they separate into their proper 

 number."* I quite agree with this profound botanist in considering 

 the present species abundantly distinct from E. arvense ; indeed the 

 similarity to that plant does not appear to me particularly obvious : 

 my idea of what would be termed "its affinities" will perhaps be 

 sufficiently expressed by my placing it between E. sylvaticum and 

 E. Telmateja. Edward Newman, 



(To be contiuued.) 



Art. CLXII. — Notes on an old volume of Coloured Im2}ressions of 

 Plants. By W. G. Perry, Esq., F.B.S.E., &c. 



A CURIOUS old collection of impressions of plants, slightly coloured, 

 lately came into my possession. Although it is roughly executed, the 

 character of the plants is well preserved. There are about five hun- 

 dred and sixty species, contained in a foolscap folio volume of 370 

 pages. The names appended to the plants are evidently copied from 

 the second edition of Ray's Synopsis ; which, from the circumstance 

 of its being published in 1696, and the third edition in 1724, shows 

 that the collection was made in the early part of the last century. 



It appears from the localities named that the book belonged to some 

 one living in the neighbourhood of Knutsford, in Cheshire. If any 

 Cheshire botanist can affi)rd information respecting the original owner 

 of the volume, it would affi^rd me considerable gratification. 



I flatter myself that the following localities, transcribed (without 

 correction of errors) from this old Cheshire herbal, may not be unac- 

 ceptable to some of your readers. 



Acorus Calamus, L. " In the moat at Holford hall it grows plentifully, also at 

 Over Tabley, both these places lying betwixt Knotsford and Northwich in Cheshire." 



Adoxa moschatellina, L. " In the Common Moor by Knutsford plentiful." 



Aquilegia vulgaris, L. " In agro secundo ultra domum Anson House dictum pro- 

 pe Booth-wood ab Kuutsfordiense circiter unum milliare inveni.'' 



Asperula Cynanchica, L. " Juxta ambulacrum novum inter Knutsford et Neio 

 Tatton provenit." 



Atriplex marina, L. " Prope Warrington observabit Mr. Robert Chetham et ad 

 me attulit." 



* Eng. Bot. Supp. 2777. 



