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account, or if he has, why does he add three queries, the last of which is, 

 " Has a mistake been made ? " 



With deference, Mr. Editor, it may be suggested that these queries show 

 that the announcement is premature, or nidus equa, 



DoRONicuM Pardalianches. 



In last number of the ' Phytologist ' (page 117), " Lynx," in some ob- 

 servations on Boronicum PardaliancJies, quotes the following sentence 

 {tolience I know not) : — "The beautiful contrast afforded by its bright-yellow, 

 staring flowers, with the purple Foxglove, with which the woods and hills 

 abound." ■ I beg to ask if any one has observed these two plants in flower 

 at the same time.* In this neighbourhood, at least, i\[Q Doronicum^owtYS 

 in the month of May, and the Foxglove not till July or August. A " lin- 

 gering bloom " of the Boronicum may pei'haps remain to contrast with the 

 Foxglove, but, generally speaking, the former is in seed before the latter 

 begins to flower. If I am wrong, wiU any one put me right ? 



A. Jerdon. 



Pyrus Aucuparia. 



On the supposed Poisonous Qualities of the Fruit of Pyinis Aucuparia. 



Kelative to the discussion that this subject has occasioned in the pages 

 of the ' Phytologist,' it seems to me that the real question at issue is 

 simply this : — " Was the death of the boy caused by his having eaten of 

 the berries of the Mountain- Ash or not ? " For the satisfaction of those 

 correspondents of the ' Phytologist ' who still appear to entertain doubts on 

 this point, I will quote a paragraph from a note which, shortly after the 

 inquest, was communicated to the ' Lancet ' by Mr. Eickards, the surgeon 

 who attended the child. 



" Up to the time of holding the inquest, I could not ascertain that the 

 child had eaten any other berries than those of the Mountain- Ash ; and 

 finding some reddish-yeUovv pulp in the stomach, such as the berries of the 

 Mountain-Ash would produce, I believed (though contrary to the gene- 

 rally received opinion of this fruit) that death must have resulted from it. 

 On further examination, however, I believe the child to have eaten two or 

 three dift'erent kinds of berries, amongst which are those of the Woody 

 Nightshade {Solanum Bulcamara), and which I now believe to have been the 

 cause of death." 



Surely this is conclusive enough. J. H. Davies. 



Morel, from Wandsworth. 



Our valued correspondent John Lloyd has sent a plant of the above 

 which does not agree with any of the species described by Mr. Berkeley in 

 his work on the British Fungi. The stem is very short and hoUow (only a 

 mere skin), and the pileus is not confluent with the stipes, nor conical as in 

 the common form, but dilated and flat. 



I remember seeing a Morel in a garden at Guildford many years ago, 



* See 'Plijtologist,' vol. ii. p. 407. 



