288 BOTANICAL NOTESj NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. [September. 



Mr. Editor, I have gathered hundreds of examples of what might be 

 called TkytlircEa pulchella, and they varied from the height of two inches up 

 to two feet. They were usually bushy, but not uniformly so. Some ex- 

 amples of the common form of the Centauiy are quite simple, without a 

 single branch ; some are bushy. They are more bushy in open, exposed 

 places than they are in woods, or when they are found growing among long 

 grass or in rushy places. 



The contributor who sent the article on New Brighton plants, etc., to 

 whom reference is made by Mr. Eobinson, saw plenty of what is called E. 

 linar'uBfolia, but he believed it to be only a not very distinct form of E. 

 Centaurium, and so overlooked it. 



Is squozen a Lancashire or a Cheshire form of squeezed ? 



The contributor of the New Brighton plants, published in the December 

 No. vol. ii., saw abundance of Rosa spinosissima and Plantago Coronopus, 

 also of Sagina nodosa and Malva moscliata, Cakile maritima, etc. He saw 

 all the plants mentioned by Mr. Eobinson, except Erytlircea I'maricefolia, or 

 rather, he did see it, but thought it only a slight variety of the common 

 state of the plant. 



Again, is Cotivolvulus sepium better known by the term Calystegia than 

 Convolvulus ? Not by the readers of such common books as Smith's 

 * English Elora,' Babington's ' Manual,' Hooker and Arnott's ' British 

 Elora,' etc. etc. Philobotanicus. 



Vegetable Physiology. 



Shakespeare, in ' Troilus and Cressida,' act i. sc. 3, says, 



" Checks and disasters 

 Grow in the veins of actions highest reared, 

 As knots, by the confluence of meetuig sap, 

 Infect the sound pine and divert his grain 

 Tortive and errant from his course of growth." 



I ask, Mr. Editor, if the above quotation is not a proof that our great 

 dramatist was conversant with one of the laws of vegetable physiology ? 



Querist. 



Communications have been received from 



D. Stock; J. W. Guise; Eev. John Barton; Eev. E. H. Webb; Eev. 

 E. E. Cole; Eev. A. M. Norman, M.A. ; Eev. W. M. Hind; S. P.; 

 S. B. ; E. M. Attwood; John Lloyd; John Sim; W. Sutherland; J. G. 

 Baker; Dr. Windsor; C. Howie; Edwin Lees, E.L.S. ; President of the 

 Birmingham Natural History Association; E. M. A.; Gerard Burton; 

 W. Bryant ; J. B. ; Arch. Jerdon ; W. P. ; Philobotanicus ; Querist. 



BOOKS RECEIVED FOE EEVIEW. 



Natural History Review for July. Moore'' s Index Filicum, Part VI. 

 Friend. Critic, etc. etc. 



EREATTTM. 



P^ge 224, for Latyrion hivenia read Satyrion hircina. 



