274 EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. [September, 



" St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Saturday, July 26th, 1823. 



" My dear Sir, — Permit me most respectfully to express to you 

 my grateful acknowledgments for your kind donation of your 

 old friend's treatise on the British Mints. The impression of 

 the plates is a very excellent one ; and give me leave to assure 

 you I shall always value the book while I live, and shall keep 

 your very handsome and kind letter addressed to me in it, that 

 independently of the gift, I have the additional gratification of 

 remembering the donor's very gentlemanly and obliging atten- 

 tion conferred on his very humble servant, 



"Thomas Wheeler. 



" When I was at St. Paul's School, I remember a Mr. Robert 

 Sole, who went to the University of Cambridge, and was, as he 

 used to tell us, the brother to Mr. Sole, the apothecary, of Bath. 



"T. Wheeler. 



" Mr. David Henry Jones, Apothecary, Aldersgate Street." 



Stratiotes aloides (syn. Acoroides, Alismoides, Aloides, Nym- 

 phoides), Limnocharis : Parkinson, 1249; Ger. 826; Bauh. 

 286 ; Bay, 290. 



Ray's 'CatalogusPlantarum,'p. 199: — "Militaris aizoides, Ger.; 

 Stratiotes sive Militaris aizoides, Vsixk.-, Aloe 4>,s\ve palust)^is,C.^.; 

 Aloe sive Aizoon palustre, J. B. : Water Sengreen, or Freshwater 

 Souldier. In fluentis (aquse) pigrioribus et palustribus fossis in 

 insula Eliensi copiose." 



Lobel gives a longish dissertation on the origin of the name 

 Militaris, as being descriptive of the habit of the plant : — " Nisi 

 quis harioletur militarum, quia sine radice, quasi sine lare et re 

 ut miles victitet vitam incertam et fluctuantem." 



He says, " it is common in stagnant rivers in Belgium, not far 

 fi'om Antwerp." (Adv. 334.) In the observations, p. 204, there is 

 a good figure of this plant, but he does not tell his readers that 

 it grew in England. 



^'Stratiotes sive Militaris fle.3oic?e5. Water Souldier," Park. 

 1249. " The Water Souldier hath divei:s and sundry long narrow 

 leaves, sharpe pointed, set close together somewhat like unto the 

 leaves of Aloes for the forme, but much less, and sharpely 

 toothed about the edges like it also, etc. ... It groweth in Ger- 

 many, and the Low Countries also, plentifully, and in Italy and 

 other countries also." Parkinson does not state that it grew in 



