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into darnel. Barley under a similar lieatment passed into oats ; and 

 cereals in general might become the very weeds that choked the hus- 

 bandman's expectations. Of the Blewbottle or Bleublaws, Turner 

 says : — ' It groweth rauche among Rye : wherefore 1 thynke, that good 

 ry, in an euell and unseasonable yere doth go out of kynde in to thys 

 wede.' — In relation to this subject the curious reader may consult Dr. 

 Weissenborn's account of the transformation of oats into rye in 

 Charlesworth's ' Magazine of Natural History,' i. p. 574 ; ii. p. 670 : 

 'Vestiges of Creation,' p. 225, and the Sequel, p. Ill : 'Notes and 

 Queries,' vi. p. 7. — Cockle, says Richardson, is from the ' A, S. coc- 

 cel, which Skinner thinks is from Ceocan, to choke, because it chokes 

 the corn.' This is to mistake the character of this weed : it does not 

 choke the corn, but its injuriousness arises from the seeds being min- 

 gled and ground with the grain and communicating an unwholesome 

 quality to the flour. The name undoubtedly has the same root as 

 Cockeno (p. 30). Indeed Bailey makes Cockle the synonym of the 

 Corn-Rose ; and Johnson defines it to be 'a species of poppy. The 

 seeds are reckoned a remedy for toothache.' " — P. 41. 



(To be continued). 



Afeiv Azotes on the Botany of Jersey ; including a List of Additions 

 to Mr. Bahington's ' Primiti(B Florce Sarnica;,^ by M. Piquet. 

 By N. B. Ward, Esq., F.R.S., &c. 



I HAVE just returned from a tour of two or three weeks to Jersey ; 

 and having been favoured with a note of introduction to one of the 

 resident botanists, M. Piquet, of St. Helier's, was kindly taken by 

 him to (with me) the great object of attraction, — the Gymnogramma 

 leptophylla. I saw it growing, as stated in the ' Phytologist,' on a 

 bank with a south-western aspect, not densely shaded by trees, as is 

 the case in most of the Jersey lanes, but protected from the direct 

 rays of the sun, by the dwarf vegetation of the bank, which, from the 

 constant oozing of a small stream, is sufficiently damp for the growth 

 of Marchantia, with here and there a patch of Fissidens bryoides. I 

 was shown two stations of this interesting plant by M. Piquet, and a 

 third, about a mite from the former, by the Rev. W. Wait. It doubt- 

 less will be found in other localities, as the climate must nearly 

 approach that of the South of France, and of Italy, where the 

 Gymnogramma abounds. The next plant to which I directed my 



