96 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
The weather on the last day of May, 1855, reminds us of our having 
seen the snow drifting in June, and having to cut green fodder and feed 
the working beasts within doors. The following extract will correct the 
misapprehensions of some people who believe that springs are colder and 
more backward than they were forty or fifty years ago :— 
Extract from the Day-book of a Shopkeeper of Paisley—*1809, May 
30th.—This morning the ground all covered with snow, and people sho- 
velling their entrys to their doors as in D’cemb’r. I seed them throwing 
snowballs at one another, and flying from under the side of the houses, 
from the snow, falling in torrents therefrom. I lifted the morsels of ice 
in large sheets one-third of an inch thick. I saw the trees fully in blosom, 
peeping their faces through the fleeshy snow, and their boughes bended 
by its weight. I could not but contemplate with wonder the mighty hand 
that giveth ‘his ice in [like] morsels, and his snow like wool’ [Psalm exlvii. 
16, 17] even in summer.” 
Will any of our contributors or correspondents inform us if Corydalis 
solida, which we have never seen except as a cultivated plant, occurs occa- 
sionally in groves or thickets? Can it be placed in the same class as Ane- 
mone apennina and EHranthis hiemalis, which have been reported in our 
times as naturalized? The following quotation is from Withering’s Br. 
PL, 1796, vol. ii. p. 620 :—< F. intermedia (Corydalis solida) was first 
sent to me by Mr. Hall, then by Mr. Gough, and afterwards by Mr. 
Robson. The former found it in Lavan’s Park, five miles from Kendal; 
Watts’ field, half a mile from Kendal, Mr. Robson; at Perry Hall, near 
Birmingham, in a meadow between the house and the river, Mr. Pitt.” 
Will our obliging correspondent, D. W., (p. 24,) send to our office a spe- 
cimen of the large Umbelliferous plant which grows perfectly wild between 
Merstham and Gatton, Surrey? If he will favour us with the plant, we 
will do our best to tell him what it is. 
Anacharis Alsinastrum.—Should any of your London readers desire to 
gather Anacharis Alsinastrum for themselves, they may readily do so from 
the River Lea, between Lea-bridge and the wooden bridge opposite Upper 
Clapton. It is especially abundant around a small wooden landing-place 
which is fixed against the signpost of High-hill Ferry-house. I first found 
it last summer. Microscopists may be glad to hear of its proximity, on ac- 
count of its showing cyclosis so well. A. Evans, Walthamstow. 
Another correspondent says, “it grows in ditches by the Thames side 
near the Bishop’s palace at Fulham.” 
Communications have been received from 
Rev. W. R. Crotch; Hewett C. Watson; J. N. (two communications) ; 
H. B.; J. G. Baker; J. Gifford (with a monstrous state of Trifolimm re- 
pens); C. A. Lanyon (with a remarkable variety of Zamiwm album from the 
neighbourhood of Belfast); Isaac Carroll; M. E.G. A.; M.H; and A. J. 
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