280 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
hood of Ledbury, having in my herbarium a specimen gathered in Febru- 
ary, 1852, on an Oak-tree in Hastnor Park, near Malvern. It is parti- 
cularized in the ‘ Botanical Looker-Out,’ pp. 49-51, which enters with 
interest into the subject of the various trees on which Mr. Lees has 
noticed Viscum album. M. M. Atrwoop. 
Mr. Editor,—Can any of your readers inform us when was that period 
so feelingly celebrated by the poet in the following lines :— 
“There was a time, ere England’s griefs began, 
When every rood of ground maintained its man.” 
A writer in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ hopes that this time will soon re- 
turn, and that it will be realized by the enclosure and cultivation of such 
waste tracts as Woolmer Forest, Hindhead, etc. If he be serious, it would 
be desirable to ascertain if our best land was of so productive a nature in 
these golden days: our chronologists would oblige us by stating when this 
time was. Non-(pipus. 
Lichens.—Are not these plants more widely dispersed than those of a 
higher grade in the scale of vegetable objects? The minute and light 
character of their sporidia (reproductive matter) renders this highly pro- 
bable. OMEGA. 
Honey-dew.—Dr. Liebig says that certain diseases of trees, as the so- 
called honey-dew, are produced by the disproportion in the azotized and 
non-azotized matters which act as the food of plants. It would be worth 
while to put this to the test of experiment, and I believe the result would 
be in favour of it against the prevailing notion that honey-dew is derived 
from Aphides—QumsToR. (Gardeners Chronicle.) 
Crimean Plants.-—Dr. A. Douglas Maclagan exhibited specimens of 
plants received from the Crimea, among which were the following :—Pa- 
ronychia serpyllifolia ; Convolvulus cantabricus ; Salvia Horminum ; Side- 
ritis sp. ; Onobrychis petrea ; Lathyrus tuberosus ; Helianthemum vulgare ; 
Linum hirsutum, Li. ; Adonis estivalis, L.; Myosotis sp.—Ibid. 
Amaryllis lutea.—This very pretty hardy bulb, which we have always 
considered an exclusively autumnal flowering species, has this year pro- 
duced its flowers in the Nursery here, also in January and February, and 
now (February the 10th) are plants with several fully developed flowers 
upon them. Has this been noticed elsewhere ? J) ke 
Walthamstow, February 1856. 
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