350 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [November, 



described and localized thus : — " Birgliara Haugh, Mr. E. D. Thomson ; 

 E. Cyparissias, found on the walls of Hulne Abbey, but doubts are enter- 

 tained of its being indigenous." (Thompson's ' Flora of Berwick,' p. 5, 

 note.) 



Gerard's figure (see Johnson's Ger. p. 499) is good : — " 6. Tithymalus 

 pineiis, Pine Spurge. The sixth is like the former, Cyprus Tithymale 

 {E. Cyparlssias), in flowres, stalks, coats, and seeds, and differeth in that 

 this kinde hath leaves narrower and much smaller, growing after the fashion 

 of those of the Pine-tree, otherwise it like." (So in Ger. Em.) 



Park. 192, Tltliy mains Pinea, Pine Spurge. 



See ' Phytologist,' vol. v. p. 194, where the plant is described as natu- 

 ralized on the walls of Hulne Abbey, Northumberland. 



6. Convolvulus sepium, fore cameo. — " You shall have a full, true, 

 and particular account of the Pink Convolvulus, which I believe Mrs. B. 

 pointed out to you five years ago, some time before it was reported from 

 Lancashire. I hope you will give the lady's history and description of 

 this interesting novelty a prominent place in the ' Phytologist.' " 



Query, has not a notice of this variety appeared already in our pages ? 

 See vol. ii. p. 253, n.s. 



7. Our obliging friend " H. T.," who sends a list of Hants, species not 

 in Dr. Bromfield's list, is hereby requested to accept our thanks for what 

 has been received and for what is promised. The list in hand will be 

 printed as soon as there is room for it, possibly before Christmas. 



8. ZosTERA MARINA, the recently discovered substitute for Cotton. — 

 The readers of the daily and weekly press, and especially such as are in- 

 terested in textile fabrics, have been kept for some time on the tenter- 

 hooks of expectation. Several weeks ago a new material was submitted 

 to an eminent cotton-broker, and obtained his approbation. Some pro- 

 bably were a little startled when they were told that the fibre was to be 

 obtained from a plant common enough on our seashores, viz. Zostera ma- 

 rina. Grass- Wrack. Several years ago, probably four or five, when mate- 

 rial for paper was in nearly as great request as Sea-Island Cotton, a notice 

 appeared in this journal of a successful application of the fibrous part of 

 Grass-Wrack to the paper manufacture. We have never heard what pro- 

 gress was made, and probably the economical element was not present — or, 

 in simple terms, it did not pay. We will not venture to affirm that, as its 

 practical employment for paper-making was a failure, its substitution for 

 the cotton fibre will also be unsuccessful; but it is to be hoped that the 

 good men and fair women of Lancashire will not have to starve till the 

 spinning-jenny and steam-looms be set to work on the fibre got from Zos- 

 tera marina, " Sea Grass-Wrack." 



Trifolium repens. {White Clover ; Butch Clover.) 



Please to inform me whether the seed of this plant was originally 

 brought from Holland, and, if so, when was it first sown in h'eland or 

 England? We have the broad Clover, or Meadow Trefoil {Trifolium pra- 

 fense), and the Hop Clover, all common in our fields, as well as the Dutch 

 Clover ; but I am at a loss to find which of these was the earliest noticed by 

 our writers on plants. Li referring to Miller's Dictionary, by Marty n, I 



