224: BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
possible to say where one of the tribe Aas been for many years. I hear 
Agrimonia odorata has been discovered in Worcestershire,—another good 
addition. Ts W.iGe 
Campanula latifolia.—Myr. Editor,—Can you tell us why the aboye- 
named plant is omitted in Dr. Windsor’s list of Settle plants? Is i one of 
the very common plants there? C. rotundifolia is stated as not uncommon 
under stone walls: is this less common than C. latifolia ? VIGIL. 
Timber.—It has been said that the timber of trees grown on the northern 
declivities of hills is denser and of more durability than that produced on 
the southern side of the same locality; also that timber cut from the side 
of a tree which was growing opposite to the north is finer than what is 
cut from the south side of the same tree. Will any of your readers be so 
obliging as to verify these assertions ? SYLVANUS. 
Rumex scutatus—In the ‘ Supplement to the Flora of Yorkshire,’ p. 110, 
I have written, “‘ The Silverdale locality, on faith of which the species is 
admitted as a naturalized Yorkshire plant in the ‘ Cybele Britannica,’ is in 
Lancashire.” I now learn that there are two dales of this name,—one 
near Arnside Knot-in-Lake, Lancashire, and the other, a small branch 
of Ribblesdale, running westward from Malham Moor, and that it is in 
the latter, which is in Yorkshire, that the Rumex grows. Judging by_its 
appearance from a distance, it is very difficult to imagine how the plant 
has become naturalized in such a wild-looking locality. 
Thirsk, Yorkshire, August 9th, 1855. J. G. BAKER. 
Nasturtium anceps (British Botany, p. 37).—The plant so named, of 
which you copy a description from Grenier and Godron, is different from 
that of Britain, which is only a form of sylvestre. (Vide Bab. Man., third 
edition.) J. G. Baker. 

Communications have been received from 
J. G. Baker (two communications); Censor; E. J.; Vigil; Sylvanus; 
Rey. C. Smith (Reigate); Fullo; Z.; J. Windsor, F.L.S.; Omega; Non- 
(Hdipus; A. G. More; Sphinx; J. Gifford; G. B. Wollaston; @.; Isaac 
Carroll; Rev. W. A. Leigkton; W. L. Lindsay (two commu ) a 
Rev. Hugh A. Stowell (Fav ersham) ; Tyro; Antiquus; Senex Vic 
We have still to apologize to several of our kind Correspondents, whose 
valuable communications are unavoidably postponed. Our arrears of mat- 
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