44, BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
over and above the interesting fact, that certain comparatively 
rare species were collected by N. or M., which other facts are in- 
teresting to many, and we hope the class to which they are so is 
daily increasing. We do most cordially tender to Mr. Baker our 
mead of approbation for his successful labours in this hitherto 
untrodden field; and we hope he will not be deterred from 
prosecuting his researches in this quarter, even if he get but 
feeble aid and faint praise for his exertions. 
We shall be very happy to devote some space im our Journal 
for recording any progress that may from time to time be made 
in this branch of the science ; and our intention is to return to the 
subject at some future period, and to notice occasionally certain 
facts corroborative, or restrictive, or corrective of those embodied 
in the essay before us. 

BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
Continental Botany. 
From the ‘Botanische Zeitung,’ September, 1855.—“ In the court of the 
ancient abbey of the Cistercians, at Goldenkron, in Bohemia, there is a 
very aged tree, a venerable Lime. In spring, when the first impulse is 
given to vegetation, and the earlier buds expand, the first leaf of each 
series is never perfectly unfolded, but always remains with its margins 
attached to each other, contiguous to the midrib and leaf-stalk. The po- 
pular saying is, that ‘this tree bears Capuzen’ (monks’ cowls or hoods), 
and the credulous believe that these hoods have grown on the tree since 
Ziska, at the destruction of the monastery, in 1420, caused the monks to 
be hung thereon,—to remind posterity of the atrocious act then com- 
mitted.” Has any of our readers noticed a similar occurrence in the 
leating of our Lime-trees?—In the same number there is a review of a 
Swedish botanical annual, viz. “Nya Botaniska Notiser, for ar 1853, utgifne 
af K. Fr. Thedenius.” Stockholm, 1853. (Botanical Notices for 1853.) 
Caricum Scandinavie Conspectus, commentariis illustratus, auctore P. J. 
Beurling.—F rom this enumeration it appears that the Scandinavian spe- 
cies of Carex amount to 112. A large number; only it should be borne 
in mind that Scandinavia, including Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and part 
of Lapland, extends from Hamburg to Hamerfest, or from the 54th to 
the 72nd degree of north latitude, and from the Baltic on the east to the 
Northern and Atlantic Oceans on the west, an extent of about 30° of 
longitude, and enjoys a great diversity of climate, and has a great range 
of elevation. By the same author there is a conspectus of the Cyperacee 
of the same tract, also of the Scandinavian Zwzule, of the genus Thalictrum, 
of the genus Potamogeton. Of this last-named genus the Scandinavian 
species are 24. The following British species grow near Stockholm, 
