352 BOTANICAL NOTEs^ NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. [November. 



plants which were found in that country as follows : — " Of herbes and 

 rootes for the pot and medicine, Cornishmen enjoy a like portion, in pro- 

 portion with other shires, which somewhere also receiveth an increase by 

 the sowing and planting of such as are brought tliither from beyond the seas. 

 The like may bee sayd of rootes and sallets for the table, save that (I 

 suppose) Cornewall naturally bringeth forth greater store of SeaJiohii and 

 Sampire then is found in any other county of this realme. The SeaJiobn 

 roote, preserveth either in syrrup or by canding, is accepted for a great 

 restorative. Some of the gauUy grounds doe also yield plenty of Rosa 

 soils. Moreover, Nature's liberall hand decketh many of the sea-cliffes 

 with wilde Hissop, Sage, Pelamontayne, Maiorum, Rosemary, and other such 

 like well-sounding herbes. 



" The women and children in the west part of Cornwall doe use to 

 make mats of a small and fine kiude of bents there growing, which, for 

 their warrae and well wearing, are carried by sea to London and other 

 parts of the realme, and serve to cover floores and wals. These bents 

 grow in sandy fields, and are knit from ouer the head in narrow bredths 

 after a strange fashion." 



He also of course speaks of metals, which, although not properly within 

 the scope of the ' Phytologist,' is so interesting that I give the following 

 passage to enable your readers to draw a contrast between noiv and then; 

 now showing a copper mine which yields for £1 paid a return of £420, 

 then as follows: — "Touching metals, copper is found in sundrie places, 

 but with what gaine to the searchers I have not beene curious to enquire, 

 nor they in haste to reveale. For at one mine (of which I tooke view) 

 the owre was shipped to bee refined in Wales, either to save cost in the 

 fewell, or to conceal the profit." H. B, 



LaTHII.?5A SaUAMARIA. 



Gerard says of Latlircea sqnamarla, " It groweth likewise neere Har- 

 wood, in Lancashire, a mile from Whanley, in a wood called Talbot Banke." 

 Mr. George Ward, an aged botanist, residing near Blackburn, informed 

 me last summer that he had found this plant about thirty-five years since, 

 between Whalley and Harwood, about a mile from the former place, and 

 near to the river Calder. I am happy to be able to add my testimony to 

 that of the above-named botanists of the seventeenth and nineteenth cen- 

 turies as to the existence of the Lathrcea in the localities referred to by 

 them. In April of the present year I found the plant growing abundantly. 



C. J. A. 



Communications have been received from 

 C. J. Ashfield ; M. A. Walker ; John Peers ; Walter Gait ; F. Walker ; 

 H. Trimen ; T. Moore ; W. Pamplin ; Dr. Prior ; Sidney Beisly ; H. 

 Beisly ; John Sim; J.Britten; W.Ashley; James Lothian; T. R. A. 

 Briggs ; Walter W. Keeves ; W. P. ; L. C. Miall. 



EECEIVED FOE EEVIEW. 



Manuscript Magazine of the Glasgow Naturalists' Society. 

 James Lothiani List of Dutch Flower-Roots, 1862. 



