392 ~ BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 
thus occupied in the reproduction of a station and plant known in the 
lifetime of our ain auld forbears. This rediscovery terminated a short 
botanical excursion of no ordinary interest. W. P. and A. I. 
Note on West Surrey Plants——If you print my Plante Rariores of 
North-western Surrey, it may be as well to add Cirsium anglicum (Car- 
duus pratensis), which has two good habitats in the district; and also 
(though belonging to its extreme point) that decidedly western plant 
Scilla autumnalis, which | have seen growing on Moulsey Hurst, where it 
grew in Ray’s time. J.S. M. 
Sorb.—* It is singular,” My. Loudon states, in his great work on the 
‘Trees of Great Britain,’ “that, not far from one of the very few habitats in 
which the true Service (Sorb) is to be found in a wild state in Britain, 
viz. Wyre Forest, in Worcestershire, the remains of a Roman villa were 
some years ago discovered (see Arch. Mag., 1. p. 94). It is not impro- 
bable that the tree referred to may be a descendant from a Service-tree 
planted in the orchard belonging to the adjoimmg Roman villa.” The 
present existing Sorb is not likely to leave any posterity. SyLVANUs. 
Leontodon palustre.—At Roche Abbey, on the 20th, I gathered MZyoso- 
tis sylvatica, Carex digitata, and Melica nutans together. Here I find 
Leontodon palustre growing with L. Taraxacum, to all appearance very dis- 
tinct. The plant is prostrate, the leaves close on the ground, the stature 
low, the exterior of the marginal florets bright red-orange, and the flowers 
small. ‘The common one has its foliage more erect, and the flowering 
stems thicker; the calyx or involucre quite another thing. GE. S: 
What is the true Valeriana officinalis, Linn.? and what is /’. sambuci- 
folia, Mikan, adopted by Koch and Babington ? 
Does Sonchus palustris still grow “in a wild lane near Wellington, fide 
E. Lees, Esq.?” Comp. Fl. Shrop. p. 390. 

Death of Dr. Ernest Steudel.—lt is with deep concern that we. 
have to announce to our readers the death of Dr. Ernest Steudel, of 
Esslingen, Wirtemburg. This most estimable man, whose life has 
been laboriously occupied in the cause of Botanical Science, died sud- 
denly, at a rather advanced age, a few days ago, from disease of the 
heart. It would be scarcely possible to over-estimate the value and 
importance of such works as his ‘Nomenclator Botanicus’ and his 
‘Synopsis Glumacearum;’ the compilation of the former was attended 
with an immense amount of toil and sheer labour. Dr. Steudel, whose 
loss we deplore, leaves behind him the character not only of an emi- 
nent botanist, but also that of a gentleman, an accomplished scholar, 
and a Christian. 
Communications have been received from 
Rev. Gerarde E. Smith; L. P.; William Bennett; R. M.8.; H. B.; 
Rev. Hugh A. Stowell; Sylvanus; Scholasticus; James Backhouse, jun. ; 
Joseph Woods, F.L.S.; James Hussey; W. Borrer, F.L.8.; Querist ; 
W. P.; Rev. T. F. Ravenshaw; T. 8. R. 
