192 BOTANICAL NOTES^ NOTICES, AND QUERIES. \June. 



Tores." Here they, i.e. the king and nobles, first heard that their enemies 

 were discomfited, and Macbeth was travelling onwards to his castle at In- 

 verness, where the king was murdered, and it was between Forres and In- 

 verness that he received the prophetic announcement of his future great- 

 ness. 



Query. May not the insane root on the moors of Nairn or Forres be a 

 poetic liberty, like the " cannon overcharged with double cracks," one of 

 the similes used by our great dramatist in the same play, and only a few 

 lines from the place wb re the heath is mentioned ? ScoTus. 



Having recently collected good duplicates of Sa^ifraga umbrosa, Lonicera 

 Xylosteum, Actcca spicata, Boronicum Pardaliaiiches, Vinca minor, Cliryso- 

 splenium alternifolium, MyrrJm odorata. Arum macalatimi, Lamium Galeoh- 

 dolon, Stellaria nemorum, Ribes alpinum, Schistostega pennata, and several 

 other rare and local plants, I shall be glad to forward specimens to any bo- 

 tanist requiring them, in exchange for other British Plants, and trust, from 

 the quantity of duplicates I possess, that I shall be able to supply all who 

 require these species. Address, T. W. B. Ingle, 4, Commercial Street, Hud- 

 dersfield. 



Mr. Sim has sent us a specimen of what he thinks may be Arenaria ha- 

 learica, a plant new to Scotland. He has been advised to send a speci- 

 men to Mr. Babington. 



Query on Flobal oh Botanical National Emblems. 



Different opinions prevail respecting the species of plants which are 

 adopted as national emblems. These differences are of slight importance 

 as botanical questions, but in the application of botany to ornamental or 

 decorative art they are worthy of special consideration. 



What plant or species is the Scotch Thistle ? and 



What is the Irish Shamrock ? Q. 



Some years ago a startling query appeared in the ' Phytologist :' — " Who 

 knows Viola catdna ?'' Most botanists would then have answered imhesita- 

 tingly. Now they might demm*, and ask whose V. canina, Gerarde's, or 

 Linnseus's, or Fries's, or Forster's, or H. C. Watson's ? 



Communications have been received from 



Sidney Beisley; John Sim; Rev. T. F. Ravenshaw ; H. C. ; M. E. C, 

 with a list of Arran plants ; Jas. F. Robinson ; J. Gilford; J. H. Davies ; 

 J. G. Baker; A. Jerdou ; E. ; Scotus ; T. W. B. Ingle; Chas. C. Hob- 

 kirk ; a. ; Rev. R. E. Cole. 



BOOKS RECEIVED FOE REVIEW. 



The Natural History Review. 

 Thirsk Natural History Report. 

 Critic ; four numbers. 

 The Friend, for May ; etc. etc. 



