NOTES. 139 



" One little girl added twelve new species to the flora of 



H during the past year ; detected separately in the field, 



as not being in the printed Catalogue, and not hitherto known 



to the University Professor of B , as being inhabitants of 



his parish. Plants from the West of England, not before seen 

 by the little botanists, were then shown to them ; and the 

 class, family, and genus were told without hesitation ; and 

 when asked, to what plant known to them, they were related, 

 'the allied, local species was named, though differing in gen- 

 eral aspect. The plant was determined alone, by its scientific 



characters such words as tetradynamous, hypogynous, 



polipetalous, syngenesious and the like learnt out of a printed 

 formula, had (owing to the assistance of the wild flowers,) 

 proved to them much easier than the multiplication table." 

 Literary Gazette, July 9th, 1853. 



