576 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [June. 



Papaver cambricus, {Welsh Poppy.) 



" Nascitur autem et observata priraum fuit in Cambria septentrionali, 

 locis umbrosis et lapidosis circa rivos alpinos, v. gr. Parkinsono primum 

 meraorante, versus Abbar media via inter Denbigam et Guidai*, item 

 prope pontem, Devae fluvio superstructum, prope Balam, et ascendendo 

 montem verus Bangorium. Sed nullibi frequentius provenit, quam circa 

 Perisuum ad radices montium Widva et Glyder, circa rivum qui inde 

 in lacus decurrit, observante Lloydio, dein Kajo et nobis etiam. Postea 

 idem Lloydius vidit in monte ' Vann uvvch cleni' prope Brechiniam in 

 Cambria australi. Sed nee ipsi Augliae banc plantam deesse constitit 

 mihi, anno 1726, dum rupes Chedderenses plantarum gratia perlustrarem, 

 in cujus cautibus eam cum Tunica rupestri {Dianthiis ceesius), folio csesio 

 molli observavi ; quae rupes inter oppida Chedder et Axbridge, in Somer- 

 setiensi comitatu, sitae sunt." — Dill. Hort. Elth, p. 301, f. 290. 



We do not remember any notice of the Bala locality of Meconopsis 

 cambrica, but we know that in 1852 it grew plentifully on the old stone walls 

 and on the cottage roofs of a little hamlet beyond Stainforth, near Settle, 

 a few humble tenements on the road from the last-mentioned place to 

 Penyghent. Our observant Preston correspondent, who has frequently 

 botanized this district, has not, so far as known to the writer of this note, 

 observed, or has not recorded this locality. 



-In the above year it was seen at Stackhouse, but only as a straggler. 

 Also between Stackhouse and Stainforth Poss, a couple of plants of garden 

 Angelica were found growing on the thick diy turf by the roadside. 



Harebell, Bluebell. 



" The wild Hyacinth ; *S'. Jtmir ; Scot. Juno, blue, and bell. The Gothic 

 tribe, called Heruli, are known to have affected a blue colour." 



It appears from the above, taken from Thomson's Etymon, that this 

 flower does not take its name from Jiai-e, the animal, but from the Saxon 

 word signifying blue. It may be the same with regard to the Campanula, 

 hair or hare bell, a very different flower, but having a blue colour, and 

 probably better entitled to the name bell than the Hyacinth. What are 

 the Blue-bells of Scotland ? S. Beisly, 



Convolvulus septum. 



The pink-flowered state of Convolvulus sepium has been noticed for 

 many years in hedges about Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, growing with the 

 ordinary white-flowered state. William Britten. 



Communications have been received from 

 C. Howie ; T. R. A. Briggs ; John Peers ; W. Winter ; M. A. Walker ; 

 J. W. Chapman ; John Sim ; J . Britten ; P. Crepin ; W. Pamplin ; W. 

 T. Dyer; C. J. Ashfield; H. C. ; J. S. M. 



BOOKS EECEIYED FOE, EEYIEW. 

 Supplement to the Warrington Guardia7i, April IZth. 

 The Preston Chronicle, May l&th, I! Ardenne ; by P. Crepin. 



EERATtTM. — Page 492, line 1,/or latter read former. 



