1857.] 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 



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Calamintha Clinopodium ? 

 Galeopsis Ladanum. 

 Stachys Betonica. 

 Stacliys arvensis. 

 Scutellaria galericulata. 

 Lithospermum arvense. 

 Symphytvun officinale. 

 Echium vulgare. 

 Piuguiciila vulgaris. 

 Utricularia vulgaris. 

 Primula veris. 

 ? Lysiinacliia nemorum. 

 ? Anagallis tenella. 

 Plantago media. 

 Plantago Coronopus. 

 Chenopodium Bonus-Hen. 

 Atriplex deltoidea. 

 ? Polygonum lapathifol. 

 Kumex sanguiaeixs. 

 Eumex Hydrolapathum. 

 Salix fragilis. 

 Salix pm-purea. 

 Salix Smithiana. 

 ? SaUx fusca. 



Myrica Gale. 

 Taxus baccata. 

 Gymnadenia Conopsea. 

 Habenaria bifolia. 

 Orcliis Morio ? 

 Allium ursinum. 

 Alisma ranunculoides ? 

 Potamogeton pectinatus. 

 Potamogeton pusillus ? 

 Potamogeton rufescens. 

 Potamogeton densus. 

 Lemna trisvilca. 

 Sparganium simplex. 

 Typha latifolia. 

 J uncus glaucus. 

 Juncus obtusiflorus ? 

 Juncus compressus? 

 Luzula sylvatica. 

 Nartliecium ossifragum. 

 Schoenus nigricans ? 

 Scirpus setaceus. 

 Scirpus acicularis. 

 Scirpus fluitans. 



Eriophorum vaginatum. 



? Carex ovalis. 



Carex curta. 



? Carex remota. 



Carex muricata. 



Carex acuta. 



? Carex fulva. 



Carex distans. 



? Cai'ex sylvatica. 



Carex hirta. 



? Carex ampullacea. 



Carex riparia. 



Milium efTusum. 



? Aira prgecox. 



Avena pubescens. 



Melica uniflora. 



Molinia cserulea, 



Poa compressa. 



Festuca bromoides. 



Festuca loliacea. 



Bromus commutatus. 



Brachypodiiun sylvaticum. 



Lycopodium. clavatum. 



Class D. — Uncommon Species (about 1000). 



Note. — ? prefixed to a species, intimates a doubt whether it ought not to belong 

 to the previous Class. The same mark affixed, a query whether it is not rather to 

 be referred to the following Class. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 

 Development of Heat in the Spadix of Akum maculatum. 



A phenomenon in the properties of the plant was observed by my little 

 son and myself, in the month of May last, which may not be uninteresting 

 to some of your readers, and was quite unknown to me until I tried the 

 following experiment : — As my son, a boy of eight years old, was the dis- 

 coverer, I shall give its history in his own words. He picked the plant in 

 full bloom, in a boggy part of Pett's Wood in this parish, and ran up to 

 me saying, " Oh, Pappy, this thing in the middle is quite Jiot,"' and I, 

 supposing it to be caused by the concentrated rays of the sun from the 

 concavity of the spathe, thought no more about it for some time ; but 

 finding that the warmth continued the whole of that and part of the next 

 day, I tested it by applying both the spadix and the spathe to the bulb 

 of a good thermometer, and found that the clubby portion of the spadix 



