336 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES, 
The Box-tree (Buxus sempervirens).—Ray says that the Box grows wild 
on Box Hill, near Dorking, hence the name; also at Boxwell on Cotswold, 
in Gloucestershire ; and at Boxley in Kent, where there are woods of this 
tree, according to Aubrey. It grows plentifully on the chalk hills near 
Dunstable.—See Ray, in loco. It did not grow at Boxley in Ray’s time. 
Turner says, “ It groweth on the mountains in Germany plentifully wild, 
without any setting ; but in England it groweth not by itself in any place 
that I know, though there is much of it in England.”—-See Tumer’s 
‘Herbal,’ iz loco. For other matter on this point, see ‘Gentleman’s 
Mazagine’ for 1787. It would be desirable to ascertain the usual habitat 
of this interesting tree and its horizontal range. SYLVANUS. 
The vertical range of Viola hirta is a desideratum of the Subsceriber’s. 
In the ‘Cybele Brit.’ the range of V. odorata and V. hirta are lat. 50-57°, 
alt. 0-200 yards. JUVENIS. 
Todmorden Botanical Society.—We have great pleasure in giving all the 
publicity in our power to the following notice of a meeting of botanists at 
Todmorden, in Lancashire—Manchester has long been famous for the - 
zeal and success of her botanists and florists; their example is warmly 
recommended to the indwellers of other urban and rural localities. On 
Monday night the members of the Todmorden Botanical Society held their 
first meeting of the year at the White Hart Inn, Mr. Abraham Stansfield, 
of Vale Cottage, in the chair. In the absence of flowering plants, of 
which there were but few exhibited, the attention of the members was 
agreeably taken up in examining some beautiful specimens of dried Mosses, 
a few of which had been collected in the localities of Todmorden, Bolton 
Abbey, and other places, by Mr. John Newall. The accounts for the past 
year showed that, after defraying the current expenses, there would be a 
balance in the hands of the treasurer, with which it was resolved to pur- 
chase a valuable collection of Dried Specimens for the Society. 
Snowdrops.—On the 25th of January, 1856, we heard, for the first 
time, “ Buy my snowdrops,” both said and sung. The Primroses had 
been cried at least a fortnight or three weeks earlier, CHELSEA. 
Communications have been received from 
A. G. More, F.L.S.; W. P.; T. M.; John Windsor, F.L.S.; Wm. 
Borrer, F.L.S.; Wm. L. Lindsay, M.D.; J. Backhouse, jun.; Rev. Henry 
Birch; C. C.; J. G. Baker; Thomas Moore, F.L.S.; An Irish Lady ; 
R. K.; M. M. 
BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 
Headland on Poisoning by the Root of Aconitum Napellus. 
Natural History Review for January, 1856. 
Ditto for April. 
Backhouse’s Monograph of the British Hieracia. 
All Communications, Books for Review, etc., for the PHyToLoGIsT, 
should be addressed to the Editor, care of the Publisher, 45, Frith Street, 
Soho, London, where Advertisements are received until the 22nd of the 
month. 
