746 



Lysimachia galericulata minor. In Colemans and other Moors 

 about Reding. 



Q]]nanthe cicuta3 facie Lobelii, Park, neer Loddon Bridge by 

 Colemans Moore. 



Orobanclie verbasculi odore. In Stokeu Church Woods on the left 

 hand of the the highway. 



Pyrola Ger. In Sherbourne Wood on the right hand of Stoken 

 Church hill. 



Caryophullus sylvestris 9 sive pumilio alpinus Clusii. found on 

 Snowdon hill by Mr. E. Lloyd. 



P.S. — Near the end of the volume is the following note, in a some- 

 what different hand, apparently of more recent date, viz. : — 



•' The mark is a pencil stroke before the plant 475 gathered." 



Extracts from the ' Report on Substances Used as Food^ exhibited 

 at the Crystal Palace, in 1851. Reported by J. D. Hooker, 

 M.D., F.R.S., &c. 



Common European Cerealia. 



Of the cerealia, commonly cultivated in Europe, viz., wheat, bar- 

 ley, oats, and rye, the Jurors have examined about 500 samples, many 

 of great excellence. These are exhibited in various qualities, and 

 with different objects ; some are ears on spikes, for scientific illustra- 

 tion ; some, mere specimens, in boxes or bottles, forming important 

 portions of the series of vegetable products that various countries have 

 contributed ; and, lastly, there are sacks and barrels of different grain 

 from England, the colonies, and exporting countries in general. 



These are unequally distributed, and afford no general information 

 as to the relations between the countries and their produce, nor much 

 as to the importance of their cultivation in the various parts of the 

 world exhibiting them. 



Thus, of oats, rye, and barley, which are the staple crops of north- 

 ern and mountainous Europe and Asia, but very few samples are in 

 the exhibition ; comparatively speaking, wheat is very insufficiently 

 represented from the United States ; better, from our cold and tem- 

 perate colonies; indifferently from England, Scotland, and Ireland; 



