96 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [March. 



Errata, etc., in Article on Perth Plants. 

 C Phytologist,' No. 46, n.s. p. 33.) 



The reader is requested to make the following alterations and addi- 

 tions : — Vage 39, Mercm'ialis annuus : cancel anmms and the interroga- 

 tive mark. Page 41, Folygoyami vlviparnm : cancel viviparmn, and insert 

 Hydropiper. 



Insert in their proper places in the list the following plants : — 

 Empetrum nigrum : Birnam Hill. Genista anglica : Methven Bog (mar- 

 gin). Ornitliopus petpusillus : Craigie Moor, etc. * Polygonum vivi- 

 pariim : Moor of Durdie, *StacJiys Betonica .- Glen Parg, Ochil Hills. 

 Trifolinm hybridum : occasionally about borders of fields ; an escape from 

 cultivation. Vaccinimn Oxycoccus : Methven Bog, abundant. Cancel 

 HeleocJiaris ccespitosus as being only an antiquated synonjin of Scirpus 

 ccespitosus. John Sim. 



Large Eush. 



A specimen of Juncus effusus has arrived from St. Alban's. Its length 

 is just 4 feet 10^ inches. When fresh it was probably a little longer. 

 Has any reader observed a taller ? W. 



In looking over my duplicates collected during the year, I find 

 amongst others the following rare plants : — Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus, 

 Vinca minor, Polypodium calcareum, Corydalis lutea, Linaria repens, 

 Digitaria sanguinalis, and Setaria viridis, and also a few of Medicago den- 

 ticulata, M. sativa, Polypogon monspeliensis, and PJialaris paradoxa, any 

 of which, together with a list of other duplicates, I sliall be glad to for- 

 ward to any botanist requiring them, in exchange for other rare British 

 plants. W. B. Ingle. 



4, Commercial Street, Huddersjield. 



CULVERKEY. 



I find in Walton's ' Angler ' a flower called by this name. On I'eferring 

 to Webster's Dictionary I find the following : — " Culverkey, a plant or 

 flower." Very unsatisfactory. Can none of yom* readers inform me what 

 is the flower alluded to by Walton ? S. B. 



List of Trees on wliich the Mistletoe grows, by Willisel. — Oak, Ash, Lime, 

 Hazel, Willow, White Beam, Purging Thorn, Quicken-tree, Apple-tree, 

 Crab-tree, White Thorn. 



Communications have been received from 

 A. G. More, E.L.S. ; J. S. M. ; Dr. Holmes; C. C. Babington, F.E.S. ; 

 Eev. E. Cole ; M. Crepin ; Scraps ; J. P. Kobinson ; George Hunt ; 

 John Sim; H. S. Pisher; W. P.; Oswestry; Eev. W. W. How; S. B. 



BOOKS RECEIVED FOE EEVIEW. 

 Natural History Review. — The Critic. — The Friend, etc. 



