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BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
Will any of our more learned correspondents help a reader of the 
‘Phytologist’ to the derivation or etymology of the term Berderis, vul- 
garly Barberry ? 
A. J. wishes to receive from some botanical friend in Durham, where 
the Mustard of commerce is cultivated, a specimen, with fruit, of the true 
Mustard-plant. 
Linaria Cymbalaria, early notice of (see pp. 5, 47, etc.).—In one of a 
series of papers in an early volume of the Phil. Trans. An. 1713, entitled 
‘Rare Plants in Gardens in the Neighbourhood of London,” there is the 
following entry :—‘ Cymbalaria, C. B.; C. italica hederacea, Park. 682. 
It is said to be found wild upon thatched houses in the North, and in 
Lancashire plentifully.” If at this date it had been only half as common 
about London as it is now, surely the writer of these notices (Plukenet) 
would not have quoted a hearsay report of its growing wild in the North, etc. 
Mr. Irvine, 28, Upper Manor-street, Chelsea, will be much obliged to 
Mr. Gibson, of Saffron Walden, for a fresh specimen of what the latter 
considers to be Galium Vaillantii. - 
In reply to T. G. (page 48), the earliest account of Dentaria bulbifera, 
as a native of Britain, seems to belong to Parkinson, who says (Park., 
Theatrum Botanicum, p. 621), “This hath been found in our land at 
Mayfield, in Sussex, m a wood called Highreede, and in another wood 
~ there also called Foxholes, both of them belonging to one Mr. Stephen 
Perkhurst at the writing hereof.” Then Johnson, in the second part of 
his ‘ Mercurius Botanicus ;’ but he gives no particular locality, merely 
saying, “‘in sylvis.” So far as the writer of this reply can discover, Ray 
takes not the least notice of it. Then comes Blackstone, who, in his 
‘Fasciculus Plantarum circa Harefield’ (1737), says, “in the Old Park 
Wood abundantly,” and refers to it again, nine years after, in his ‘ Speci- 
men Botanicum’ (1746), and adds, ‘“ Parkinson says it has been found in 
the woods about Mayfield, in Sussex, but as I do not find it mentioned 
by any later writer, doubt he mistook the plant.” But was not this an 
error upon the part of Blackstone? for as to its Sussex and Kent na- 
tivity, subsequent investigation has completely established its claim to be 
enumerated amongst the indigenous plants of those counties. It was 
growing not many years ago pretty plentifully in the small wood behind 
the High Rocks at Tunbridge Wells, and it is quite likely to be still in 
existence at the two places near Mayfield mentioned in Parkinson’s 
* Herbal.’ D. 
Dentaria bulbifera (page 48).—In answer to the inquiry of T: G. 
(Waltham Abbey), I find it stated in the 2nd vol., p. 304, of Pulteney’s 
‘Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England,’ that in the year 1752 
Mr. Watson laid before the Royal Society two rare English plants, the 
Lathrea Squamaria and the Dentaria bulbifera, the latter unnoticed both 
by Mr. Ray and Dillenius. These were discovered by Mr. Blackstone, 
near Harefield. Ava: 
“There is now to be seen, in the Museum of Economic Geology, in 
Jermyn-street (the entrance is in Jermyn-street), a part of a trunk of a 
