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Mnium ligulatum : the former Moss is very seldom found in fruit 

 here, but the latter one frequently. We now chose the road in 

 preference to the field way to Hale Barns; but before entering 

 the village, we turned into the field through the stile on the left- 

 hand side of the road, and noticed a single plant of Pastinaca 

 saliva on the borders of the corn-field. We now entered a small 

 clough at the bottom of the field, and here grew abundance of 

 Sanicula europ(Ba, Asperula odorata, and nice little bed of Herb 

 True Love, Paris quadrifoUa. Here we determined to close the 

 lids of our vasculums for the last time that day, and proceeded to 

 the Bowdon railway station, passing on the way a very interesting 

 place to the botanist, called Hale Moss. To the muscologist it is 

 particularly interesting, as containing, amongst others, the new- 

 British Moss Hypnum giganfeum, also Hypnum exannulatum, H. 

 condensatum, H. stramineum (which fruits here) . The Ferns are 

 B. boreale, Osmunda regalis, and Lastrea spinulosa. The flower- 

 ing plants are Acorus Calamus, Menyanthes trifoliata, Anagallis 

 tenella, and here and there a plant of Parnassia palustris. I 

 mention this latter place, merely to show that we have a large 

 field for botany Avithin a day^s beat from Manchester, as we were 

 only deterred from visiting Hale Moss in consequence of the 



rain again. Thomas Rogers, 



Secretary to the Manchester Societt/ of Botanists. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



Notices to Correspondents. 



" H. T.," whose letter arrived on the 21st of June, is hereby most 

 respectfully informed, that no contribution to science, however humble, will 

 be DECRIED in the ' Phytologist.' The object of this periodical, for at least 

 seven years, has been not to disparage, but to encourage ; our motto is, 

 like that on the begging box, " The smallest donation thankfully received." 

 The same kind correspondent is reminded that Allium aviblgimm of De 

 Candolle is not A. amhiguuDi of Sibthorp and Smith ; and it may be in- 

 ferred, on Professor Babington's own authority, that the latter, A. ambi- 

 guum of Smith, is the species figured in the ' Supplement to English Bo- 

 tany,' No. 2803. Tor an account of A. triquetrum, sent to Mr. Babing- 

 ton from the Channel Isles, see ' Botanical Gazette,' vol. i. p. 6 ; A. ani- 

 biguum of Smith is probably A. roseum of Linnaeus; and ^. ambiguuni 

 of De Candolle is a synonym of A. suaveolens of Jacqnin, A. ericetorum, 

 Thore, and A. appendicalatmii, Kamond. A. triquetrum is a Linnsean spe- 

 cies, and is not honoured with so many aliases as its fair congener. Have 

 we both these species as interlopers, or have we but one with two names, 

 A. ambiguvyn m\d A. triquetrum? 



