120 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
Osage Orange (Maclura aurantiaca).—This tree, or shrub, is recom- 
mended by a writer in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle’ as a substitute for White- 
thorn or Hawthorn. A seedsman also advertises seeds of the same. Will 
any of our correspondents be so obliging as to give us their opinion of the 
merits of this shrub as a material for hedges ? 
Geological Relations of Plants—There are in Great Britain a few plants 
which grow only in what may be termed limited localities ; or, in modern 
phrase, their type of distribution is very local. Our readers will under- 
stand what is meant from an example. JLloydia serotina is limited to 
Wales, to the county of Carnarvon, and to one or two spots in the said 
county, neither large nor far apart. The plant is not considered as an 
introduced nor accidental nor straggling species. It has never been 
observed in any other part of the British Islands than in the one above 
mentioned. Acf@a spicata is a local species almost as rare as the Welsh 
plant, being confined to a few localities in Yorkshire and Westmoreland. 
Scheuchzeria palustris is also a Yorkshire plant, confined to a single sta-_ 
tion; at least none other is known but the old station at Leckby Carr. 
The question is, are these and other rare British plants restricted im their 
distribution or area over which they extend, by geological or atmospherical 
causes, or by both combined ? 
Ranunculus gramineus—We have been informed by our obliging and 
energetic correspondent, Mr. Baker, that the plant above-named has re- 
cently been found by Mr. Etheridge of Bristol, in Lundy Island, in the 
Bristol Channel. We wish the latter gentleman would be so kind as to 
send us a specimen, with the history of the re-discovery of this interesting 
species, so very long believed to have been by mistake entered in our lists 
of British plants. 
Localities of rare Plants——Ranunculus confusus, Gr. and God.: near 
Sheerness ; Gravesend. Cochlearia anglica, B gemina, Most., near Sheerness. 
Medicago denticulata, Willd., Southend. Medicago minima, Lam., near 
Sheerness. Cnanthe silaifolia, Bieb.: roadside between Sheerness and 
Queenborough. Statice occidentalis, Lloyd, near Sheerness. Carex stricta, 
Good.: abundant near Sandwich and Deal. J. T. Syme. 
Communications have been recewed from 
J. A., Guildford; Rev. T. F. Ravenshaw, Ifracombe (two communica- 
tions); A. W.; D. Galloway ; John Tatham; J. G. Baker; Dr. W. L. 
Lindsay; W. F. Helmsley. 
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 
Lawson on Cinchonaceous Glands in Galiacea, ete. 
The Natural History Review for July. 
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