590 ROMAN OATS. {July, 



foremost. Some exceedingly handsome plants are in the Orders 

 Ranunculaceae, CrucifercB, Labiata, Composites, Orchidacees, Iri- 

 daceoi, Liliacece. The Ranunculacece, Leguminiferce, Umbellifene, 

 Saxifragaceae, Composite, Gentianacece, Prinmlacece, Labiatce, 

 Euphorbiacea, are the great ornaments of the Pyrenees. 



The botany of the Pyrenees is pretty well known, thanks to 

 the eminent botanists, Boissier and Bentham, and to one of the 

 contributors to the ' Phytologist.' A large list of Pyrenean 

 plants was published in the above-named periodical, but the sub- 

 ject is not exhausted. The readers of this will find in the back 

 numbers of this magazine the addresses, names, etc., of resident 

 botanists, who will supply them with specimens, roots, and seeds. 



Nurserymen of extensive connections can readily procure 

 plants from the most remote parts of the world ; others, whose 

 correspondence may not be so extended, are recommended to 

 apply to M. Theodore von Heldreich, director of the Botanic 

 Gardens of Athens, who will readily supply applicants Avith living 

 roots of plants, or seeds, or specimens ; or such may apply to their 

 humble servant, the editor of the ^ Phytologist,^ of 28, Upper 

 Manor Street, Chelsea. 



Note. — The writer of the above has just been favoured, through 

 the kindness of a mutual friend, with some lists of roots, seeds, 

 specimens, etc., which M. T. von Heldreich is ready to supply. 

 There is no room for entering an abstract of these respective 

 catalogues. It is hoped that some means will be devised for cir- 

 culating among amateurs and nurserymen the most important 

 articles of their contents. 



EOMAN OATS. 



Sir, — My attention has been recently directed to a letter in 

 the ' Phytologist ' for the current month, written " for Peter 

 Lawson and Son,^' respecting an article on the " Roman oat '' 

 question, which appeared in your last month's issue of the same 

 periodical. I must premise, in simple justice to myself, that the 

 article in question was published in your pages in its present im- 

 perfect form entirely without my knowledge and concurrence ; 

 otherwise I might have supplied additional particulars as to the 

 result of last year's trial of the oats, a course which might pos- 



