1859.] BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 287 



DoRONicuM Pardalianches and Digitalis purpurea. 



I find from the numerous answers to my question regarding the simul- 

 taneous flowering of these two plants in this month's ' Phytologist ' 

 (August, 1859), that I have been somewhat hasty in doubting the fact that 

 they do in some places flower together. Indeed I perceived this in the 

 course of the summer, which is now nearly over, and thank the observant 

 coiTCspondents who have established the fact. 



At the same time I may observe that here (Eoxburghshu'e) the Doronicum 

 is often in flower in the end of April, while the Foxglove hardly ever be- 

 gins to flower till June. When I stated that the Foxglove does not 

 flower here till July or August, I spoke too much from memory, which is 

 apt, with me, to be treacherous. A. Jerdon. 



Mossbur7iford, Jedburc/h, N.£. 



I perceive the Doronicum came into flower May 16 ; Digitalis, June 8th. 



G. J. 



Hypericum dubium. 



(' Phytologist,' August 1858, p. 535.) This plant is common between 

 Binningham and Clent. (I do not know if the H. maciilatum., Crantz, of 

 Bab. Man., ed. 2, be distinct or no, or if it be the Clent plant.) The 

 best way to distinguish the plant from perforatum and quadrangulum is 

 by its leaves, which are marked with nu.merous pellucid veins, but which 

 are destitute of pellucid dots (or nearly destitute). Gerarde gives a good 

 figure of the plant in his Herbal, at page 542, under the name of St. Peter's- 

 wort ; he particularly mentions the comparative absence of pellucid dots, 

 therefore his plant is not quadrangulum, called St. Peter's-wort in most 

 English authorities. 



There was a discussion some years ago as to the real quadrangulum of 

 Linnaeus. The French authorities consider our dubium the Linnsean quad- 

 rangulum, and call om* dubium, tetrapterum. Whoever may be right, it 

 seems clear fi'om Gerarde that our dubium is the true St. Peter's-wort. 



E. M. A. 



Trees in Churchyards. 



The churchyard of Sandridge, Hertfordshire, has two rows (about six in 

 each row) of upright Lombardy Poplars in it. The one row near the north 

 border of the churchyard, the other near the eastern. The size as well as 

 the age of these poplars exceeds that of any ever noticed by me before. 

 There is no Yew-tree in this churchyard, a peculiarity remarked in several 

 neighbouring Hertfordshire parishes. 



A row of veiy fine large Lime-trees runs parallel with the western 

 boundary of the churchyard of St. Peter's (St. Alban's), Hertfordshire ; 

 no Yew-tree is there. 



Redbourn, Hertfordshire : an extremely aged Hawthorn is in this church- 

 yard, and^if I recollect right, no Yew-tree. W. P. 



Note on Erythr^ea pulchella, etc. 



('Phytologist,' vol. iii. June, p. 176.) Should not CUronia pulcJiella be 

 Erythrcea pulchella ? C. littoralis, E. littoralis ? 



