64 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [^February. 



LiSTERA CORDATA IN NoRTIl WaLES. 



When we were in Merionethshire last September, I was much pleased 

 to meet with plenty of this rare little Orchis ; it grows in those wet moors, 

 among Sphagnums and such bog-plants, near the village, or rather hamlet, 

 of Laithgwm, about six miles north-north-west of Bala, and five or six 

 miles west of Llandderfel, a rather out-of-the-way wild track. If you 

 draw a line from Cerrig-y-Druidion to Bala, it will intersect some of the 

 best, and at the same time, least trodden botanical ground in North Wales : 

 the western side of that line, i. e. towards Carnedd-y-Filiast, may with 

 safety be recommended. I am indebted to the ingenious Mr. John Jones 

 (parish-clerk of Llandderfel) for having pointed out to me the Listera cor- 

 data in this locality. W. P. 



Lythrum hyssopifolium. 



Sir, — In looking over my plants gathered during the last summer, I 

 find Lythrum hyssoj)ifoliui)i, which was gathered in a stagnant state, along 

 with its allied species, " L. SaUcaria, near Northallerton, Yorkshire. It was 

 the only specimen I could find which I preserve in my herbarium. If you 

 think it woidd interest any of the readers of the ' Phytologist ' to know 

 this station for so rare a Yorkshire plant, I shall be glad to see it inserted. 



Northallerton, December 13. W. 



Map to LiNNiEus's Lapland Tour. 



Pray inform me, which is the best map of that part of Sweden and of 

 Lapland which is described in Linneeus's Journal of his Lapland Tour? 

 It is some years ago that I first read that most interesting and simple 

 nan-ative, and on taking it up again the other day, I sadly felt the want 

 of some map whereon I might, as it were, track out the footsteps of the 

 good man. A. 



Ertthrjea linari^folia (see ' Ph3i;ologist,' vol. ii. p. 64)9). 

 There is no doubt about the orthography of the above-named species. 

 The specific name is fi'om Linaria, because it has leaves like Toad-flax, or 

 somewhat like flax-leaves (a linaria-Yike leaf), linaricefolia. 



Pimpernel, or Shepherd's Weather-glass {AmgalUs arvensis). 



Lord Bacon caUs this flower Wincopipe. Is it known by this name 

 now in Hertfordshii-e or elsewhere? S. B. 



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 Eev. T. Salwey ; P. ; T. ; W. B. P. ; George Jordan ; John Sim ; John 

 Lloyd ; Charles Howie ; J. G. Baker ; J. H. Davies ; Dr. Wood ; John 

 Windsor, F.L.S. 



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