48 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
attention to the fact that it occurs in Dillenius’s edition of Ray’s Synopsis ; 
still, so far as Ray himself is concerned, no mention of the plant is to be 
found either in his ‘ Catalogus’ or in his ‘Synopsis ;’ the record of it by 
Dillenius in /is edition (Raii Syn. p. 282, ed. i., 1724) bringing it to 
about twenty years after Ray’s decease. But it is curious that both Par- 
kinson (1640) and Johnson (1641) include it, though with some hesita- 
tion, among our native plants: the former, who gives a tolerably charac- 
teristic cut of the plant (Park. Theatrum Botanicum, p. 681), tells us :— 
“It groweth naturally in divers places of our land, although formerly it 
hath not been knowen to bee but in gardens, as about Hatfield in Hart- 
fordshire, etc., as also upon the thatched houses in the north parts, and most 
abundantly in Lancashire, ete.” The next mention we find of it is in 
Johnson’s Mercurius Botanicus, at p. 19 of the ‘ Pars altera Mercurii Bot. 
1641;’ then comes Dillenius, as above referred to, who inserts it, on the 
authority of Dr. Richardson, as occurring in the county of York. Have 
any other early notices of it been remarked by our readers ? 
A correspondent from Worcester wishes the following inquiry made :— ~ 
Has any botanist found Orchis hircina in ‘Suffolk since 1850? and if so, 
in what part of the county ? 
T. G. (Waltham Abbey) inquires—Where is the first recorded notice to 
be found of Dentaria bulbifera as a British plant ? 
In reply to the inquiry of Belgravia, the vine-like plant which is trained 
over the front of a house near Halkin-terrace, Belgrave-square, is Vitis 
riparia of Michaux, Pursh, and others (Bot. Mag. 2429), a North Ame- 
rican species, with sweet-scented flowers, but it is rarely seen in cultivation 
here: the one in the above-named locality is the sterile plant (it is dic- 
cious). Query, is the fertile state of this Vine known at all in England ? 
Will Mr. Lees, our kind contributor, send us a brief account of the 
history of the discovery of Epipogium aphyllum in Herefordshire? A spe- 
cimen or a description of the plant would be very acceptable. 
Communications have been received from 
Mr. Woods (Lewes); Mr. Gissing; Mr. J. G. Baker; E. H.8.; O.; 
Mr. Isaac Carroll; Dr. W. L. Lindsay; Belgravia; Mr. George Dixon; 
Mr. J. J. Packer; Mr. J. Fenton; Mr. J. T. Syme; T. G.; and Mr. J. A. 
Kidd. 
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 
Moore’s Handbook of British Ferns. 
Johnsoni Opuscula omnia Botanica nuper edit. T. S. Ralph. 
Lindley and Moore’s British Ferns, ilustrated by Nature Printing. 
Dixon’s Classified List of British Mosses. 
Packer’s List of British Mosses. 
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