320 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. 



maids, GlecJwma ; Hindheal, Ambro-na ; Hare-burr, Arctium Lappa, L. ; 

 Prattling Parnell, London Pride, None so Pretty, Nancy Pretty, referring 

 apparently to the heroine of some popular song or farce, and not very old 

 names, Baxifraga umbrosa, L.; Wake-robin ; Darnel ; Dock ; Cowslip ; Herb 

 Bennet, as applied to Hemlock and to Gam ; Herb Christopher, as applied 

 to Actaa, Osmunda, and FuUcaria ; Sauce-alone ; Chadlock, Chedlock, or 

 Kedlock ; Charlock, Carlock — Harlock, in ' King Lear ;' Cheet, Camelina ; 

 Close Sciences, Hesperis matronalis, L. ; Daffadowndilly; Honeysuckle — the 

 meaning of suckle ? — Mazzard, the Bird-cherry ; Orach ; Paigle ; Eampe, 

 Armri maculatum L. ; Love-lies-Bleeding, — the tale to which it alluded? 



48, York Terrace, N.W. B. C. A. P. 



Claytonia perfgliata. 



(See ' Phytologist ' for July, 1862, pp. 323, 224.) The precise locality 

 reported as above is a lane, on a bank opposite to a house called " Shrub- 

 land," at Gorleston, Suftblk, near Great Yarmouth. I have found it there 

 every spring for the last five or six years, H. G. G. 



ClUERIES. 



Has Ranunculus Lingua been observed recently between Eotherhithe and 

 Deptford ? 



Does Galeopsis villosa still grow plentifully among the corn about Shef- 

 field, Darfield, and Wakefield ? 



Is Melavipyrum arvense now found at Horsley Bath, near Beeston 

 Castle, Cheshire ? 



Can any reader verify Grays, Essex, as a locality for Lepidiiim lati- 

 folium ? 



Who has recently seen Gera?zium phcsum at Towel, near Maidstone ? 



Is Arnoseris pusilla still found at Petersham, Surrey, aiid in Tud- 

 dington (Teddington) Field, near Hampton Court ? 



Epilobi'um angustifolium. — Is the aforesaid plant still growing on Maize 

 Hill, beyond Greenwich? (See Hudson's Fl. Aug. 1st ed. p. 140.) — Gal- 

 Lus. [Can any correspondent tell " Gallus " if the above topological ac- 

 count is still correct?] 



Peiicedanum officinale. — Can any Sussex botanist tell the undersigned, 

 if Feucedamim officinale has been recently found near Shoreham, in 

 Sussex, and by whom seen? — Menalcas. 



Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus. — Does the above named plant still grow 

 copiously in woods near Erith, Kent, as it did during the last century? — 



MCERIS. 



Comrnunications have been received from 

 T. R. A. Briggs; Sidney Beisly ; H. H. Cripps ; C. Howie; C. J. Ash- 

 field ; W. Pamphn ; J. S. M, ; T. Moore ; J. Britten ; John Sim ; Eev. 

 T. F. Bavenshaw; Hampden G. Glasspoole; W. G. F. Phillimore ; Dr. 

 Macalister ; M. A. Walker ; Mrs. Merrifield ; M. F. Crepiu ; H. C. ; W. P. 



EECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 



Notes on Books. 



The Banffshire Journal, Sept. 2nd and 9th. 



The Scotsman, Sept. Idtk. 



Flora of Preston, Part Fll. 



