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The continuation of Mr. Daniel Stock's paper ' On the Botany of 

 Bungay, Suffolk,' was read. 



Friday, September 5, 1851. J. D. Salmon, Esq., in the chair. 



Sir Coutts Lindsay, Bart., of Grosvenor Square; Mr. I. W. N. 

 Keys, of Plymouth ; Mr. W. Wing, of Wandsworth ; Mrs. Morgan, 

 of Southsea ; Mrs. James, of Uxbridge ; Mr. R. Cooke, of Scarbo- 

 rough ; and Mr. J. G. Baker, of Thirsk, were elected members. 



Mr. G. E. Dennes exhibited specimens of Leersia oryzoides, Sw.^ 

 collected by him at Brockham Bridge, Surrey, on the 30th of August. 



The continuation of Mr. Daniel Stock's paper ' On the Botany of 

 Bungay, Suffolk,' was read. — G. E. D. 



Notice of' Tlie Naturalist j No. 7, September, 1851. 



The only botanical paper is intituled — 

 * The Misseltoe {Viscum album) ; by J. Mcintosh, Esq.' 

 As a general observation, I may remark on the extraordinary simi- 

 larity that is occasionally to be found between the productions of 

 those who have been simultaneously labouring on the same subject. 

 In the present instance I have been greatly struck with the very close 

 accordance of the researches of Mr. Mcintosh with those of Mr. Lees, 

 published exactly two months previously : they are not indeed iden- 

 tical ; there is a difference of phraseology, a difference of spelling ; 

 yet so like that one cannot resist the conviction that Mr. Mcintosh 

 allowed Mr. Lees the use of his MSS. ; Mr. Mcintosh cannot have 

 copied from Mr. Lees, for he makes not the least allusion to him or 

 his book. My space does not admit of large quotation, but the bota- 

 nist will be amused if he procure the * Botanical Looker-Out ' and 

 * The Naturalist ' for September, and compare in extenso the chapters 

 on the mistletoe ; 1 assure him he will find the differences as enter- 

 taining as the similarities. However, I will cite a few instances as a 

 sample. 



" They considered that what- " The mistletoe was honoured 



ever grew on the oak was sent by the Druids of Gaul and Bri- 



from heaven, and as a sign that tain as a heaven-descended plant." 



the tree was the chosen one of — Lees. 

 God himself." — Mcintosh. 



" The misseltoe was very diffi- " When the end of the year 



