384 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [December. 



respondent is welcome to the small portion of space which will be oc- 

 cupied by his communication. He may air his own opinions, or in mo- 

 dern phraseology, ventilate them, and he may elicit the views of others on 

 this subject. We will give him the means of spreading his doctrines, and 

 few, very few, are better entitled to a hearing on the subject of British 

 Ferns. If there be no room for the communication in this number, it 

 shall take the precedence in our next forthcoming issue. 



8. The Editor has the pleasure of offeringhis very hearty thanks to the 

 ' Phytologist's ' excellent Henley correspondent, and he has the pleasure of 

 submitting the following further information about the plants of that 

 neighbourhood : — 



Campanula patula. 



As regards further details about Campanula patula, I found two 

 small plants of it in a meadow which had been laid down in grass, 

 about two years ago, in August (I think). It has, I am afraid, since dis- 

 appeared. 



Tidipa sylvestris was found in an orchard at the same place, viz. 

 the Coppice, Shiplake, about a year ago, in the spring. It was also 

 found more plentifully growing with Narcissus, in another orchard ad- 

 joining Binfield Heath, also in Shiplake, and may be still growing there. 

 If I happen to be in the neighbourhood next spring, which I am afraid 

 is not probable, I will look for it. I shall be proud to contribute any 

 small information to the ' Phytologist ' whenever I can. W. G. P. 



9. In answer to " C. J. A.," of Preston, it may l)e said that the poly- 

 sticJium sent from Arnsid;' Knot, Westmoreland, is what was called As_pi- 

 dlum lobatum in the good old days when George the Third was King of 

 England, and Sir J. E. Smith i\\e facile princeps of British botanists. It 

 still abounds in parts of Epping Forest, especially about Chigwell, Lam- 

 bourne, Hainault Forest, etc. etc. It has seen many other changes besides 

 those of nomenclature, but it is still in being, though reduced to a lower 

 station in the vegetable kingdom. 



] 0. There are besides the above, in our possession, several other mis- 

 sives, which are unavoidably postponed for want of space. Among 

 these, are to be here recorded some from " H. and S. B.," of Sydenham, 

 " E.C.A.P.," of Taunton, "J. S.," of Perth, " W.W. E.," of Greenwich : all 

 these comramunications, contributions, notices, notes, hints, and questions 

 will be the subject of another article in our next number. 



Communications have been received from 

 John Sim ; C. J. Ashfield ; J. Britten ; G. B. Wollaston ; F. Walker 

 C. Howie; Walter Gait; Sidney Beisly; H. C. ; Dr. Prior; John Gibbs 

 W.P. 



EECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 



The Preston Chronicle, October 25, 

 The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist. 

 The Edinburgh Weekly Review, November 32. 

 The Chelmsford Chronicle, Nov. 1, 1862. 



