480 BOTANICAL NOTES^ N0TICE5_, AND QUERIES. [MaVcJl. 



which refers to Jean-Pottages as follows : — " A Buffoon, or Jack pud- 

 ding. In France he is called Jean-Pottages ; in Italy, Mocarome ; in 

 Holland, Pickled Herring, etc. /' and he says, Mr. Theobald, in one of his' 

 notes to Shakspeare's ' All's Well,' etc., observes, " that it was a foolery 

 practised at city entertainments whilst the Jester or Zany was in vogue, 

 for him to jump into a large deep custard, put on purpose to set on a 

 quantity of barren spectators to laugh." S. B. 



Sir, — It may interest some of your readers to know that that really 

 magnificent plant Saponaria officinalis still grows in great profusion on 

 the wide beach near Langley Fort, Eastbourne. This is mentioned in 

 Turner and Dillwyn (1802), so that this plant, if not really native, has 

 now maintained its ground for at least sixty years, and may fairly be 

 considered naturalized at all events. Phyteuma orbiculare is plentiful on 

 the Downs, towards Beachy Head. T. W. 



If there be a doubt about the genuineness of the white variety of Cam- 

 panula Trachelium, let me give evidence in its favour. I have often seen 

 specimens of the white variety of this plant growing wild, with the typical 

 form, in many different places at Shiplake, near Henley-on-Thames. It 

 has occurred to me that the chalk soil has something to do with this : as, 

 in the same neighbourhood, where chalk and clay meet, the first is deco- 

 rated with Violets of all kinds, purple, blue, white, and rich claret-co- 

 loured, while the clay proiluces any but the common purple. 



St. Peter's College, Westminster. 



Meconopsis cambrica and Angelica officinalis, near Settle. 



When I was botanizing in Settle, iipwards of ten years ago, the first- 

 named plant, viz. the Welsh Poppy, was observed about the roadside, at 

 the village of Stackhouse, and a little fui'ther on, a couple of jilants of the 

 garden Angelica, at Stainforth. Between Stainforth and Horton, the old 

 stone dykes and the cottage roofs were adorned vvith Meconopsis cambrica. 



Aliquis. 



Communications have been received from 



John , Sim ; John Peers; J. Britten; Ur. Windsor ; W. Eobinson ; S. 

 Beisly; W. G. F. Phillimore ; James Lothian ; T. Stansfield ; J. S. M. ; M. 

 A. Walker ; F. P. Marrat ; C. J. Ashfield ; W. Winter. 



EECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 



James Lothian s Spring Catalogue. 

 The Freslon Chronicle, Feb. 21«^. 



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Eebata. — Page 418, line 16, place a full-stop after ' spontaneous ;' line 21, omi 

 comma after ' E. portlandica ;' line 25, place a full-stop after ' ^. variegatum,' also 

 after ' subrepens.' Page 419, hne 27, after 'shown' insert 'me'; line 36, for 

 ' Powell ' read 

 for 



er ^ sub rep ens. Page 419, line 27, alter 'shown msert ' me ; Ime 3b, ior 



oweir read ' Nowell ' ; line 39, for ' catophyllum ' read ' calophyllum ' ; last line, 



' KneipJiV read ' Kneiffii.' Page 420, line 1, for ' amplyodon ' read ^amblyodon.' 



