72 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
Willow-tree, lately felled in Battersea-fields, in the centre of which was 
found an aerolite, or meteoric stone, of a very large size, which seems to 
have fallen on the tree many years ago, and to have imbedded itself in its 
substance. It is a prodigious curiosity, and well worth examination.”— 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, June 9. 
Has the Misseltoe been recently noticed on the Oak? J. A., of Guild- 
ford, once heard of its being seen growing on an Oak near Haslemere, 
Surrey. Can any reader of the ‘ Phytologist’ verify this ? 
Will any of our lady readers have the kindness to try the following plan 
of domestic gardening, and give us a statement of the results P— 
Friower-Pots For Rooms.—Fill a pot with coarse moss of any kind, 
in the same manner as it would be filled with earth, and place a cutting 
or a seed in this moss ; it will succeed admirably, especially with plants des- 
tined to ornament a drawing-room. In such a situation, plants grown in 
moss will thrive better than in garden mould, and possess the very great . 
advantage of not causing dirt by the earth washing out of them when 
watered. 
In Pepys’s Diary, under date August 14th, 1662, we read :-— With 
Mr. Commissioner Pett, at the Mitre, in Fenchurch-street, to a venison 
pasty. Found him a very worthy man: most of the discourse was con- 
cerning the Forest of Dean and the timber there. . . with the age of 
many trees there left, at a great fall in Edward the Third’s time, by the 
name of Forbid Trees, which at this day are called Vorbid Trees.’’—Is any- 
thing known about these Forbid Trees? what they were, and why left 
to lie there from 1370 to 1662? J. Kennepy (Winchester). 
Natural Barometers.—Many plants indicate a moist state of the atmo- 
sphere by closing their flowers. The Poor man’s Weather-glass, Anagallis 
arvensis, is a well-known hygrometric plant ; also Ornithogalum umbellatum. 
The Daisy and Chickweeds are familiar examples of this property. 
_ Clematis Vitalba is rare in Cornwall, but occurs in Devon, and about 
Bath. Is it a Dorsetshire plant ? 
Communications have been received from 
Rev. R. H. Webb; A. B.; Rev. T. A. Cox; Rev. E. Lloyd; R. W. R. 
(Humberstone); J. P.; W. Marshall (Ely); Rev. A. Bloxam; C.C.; J. 
G. Baker; D.; C. A. Lanyon; Joseph Woods; J. Gifford; Miss M. 
Hutton (Bath); Alfred Evans; George Dixon; and John Windsor. 
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 
Hooker's Museum of Economic Botany at Kew. 
Drummond’s Observations on Natural Systems of Botany. Reissue, price 1s. 
Lindley and Moore’s British Ferns by Nature Printing, part 3. 
Transactions of the Malvern Naturalists’ Club, part 1. 

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