94 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [April, 



ing examples of the scape (flower-stalk) of the British specimens of Brosera 

 are probably not very nnfrequent ; and it would be worth while to direct 

 our attention to these states. The caulescent form of D. intermedia figured 

 and described in the February number of the ' Phytologist ' has, it ap- 

 pears, been overlooked, or, if observed, was not thought worthy of special 

 notice. Such facts, trivial though they may be deemed, will always be 

 welcome to a place in our pages, and, it is believed, wiU be acceptable to 

 the majority of our readers. E. 



Caedamine acaulis. 



Character of a new Cardamine, in Germany, discovered^ and described by 

 Br. Otto Berg. 



The learned discoverer .of this new species proposes the following spe- 

 cific name and character : — 



" Cardamine acaulis, Bg. ; perennig, acaulis ; foliis omnibus radicalibus, 

 basi exauriculatis, pinnatipartitis, novellis hispidis, demum plus minusve 

 glabris ; foliolis petiolulatis, rhombeo-subrotundis, repando-dentatis, ter- 

 minali majore ; scapo radicali simplici, fUiformi, glabro, unifloro, foliis vix 

 longiore ; petalis calyce tiiplo, staminibus duplo longioribus, obcordatis ; 

 stylo latitudinem sdiquse superante j stigmate capitftto. • 



" Habitat in graminosis humidiusculis umbrosis. Floret Aprili, Majo-. 

 Prope Berolinum." 



This description may be thus Englished : — 



Stemless Cardamine. Boot perennial; leaves all radical, pinnate, at 

 first hairy, finally more or less smooth ; leaflets stalked, rhomboid-round- 

 ish, with spreading teeth, upper leaflet ihe largest ; scape (flower-stalk) 

 hliform; simple, one-flowered, scarcely longer than the leaves ; petals three » 

 times as long as the sepals and twice as long as the stamens, obcordate ; 

 fruit tipt with the style ; stigma capitate. 



In moist, grassy, and shady places. April, May. Near Berlin. 



This plant is distinct from all our British species of this genus by the 

 one-flowered scape. It approaches C. Mrsuta, from which it is very rea- 

 dily distinguished by its perennial root, as weU as by its single flower. 



botanica. 



Native country of Datura Stramonium. 



The home of this now widely-jdistributed plant is probably the shores 

 of the Caspian Sea, or in the countries adjacent thereto. It is not an 

 Indian native plant, and it is very doubtful if it was known in Em-ope 

 during the period of the dominion of Home in the West. It appears to 

 have gained a footing in Europe between the decadence of the Eoman 

 Empire and the discovery of America. — From Bie Botanische Zeitung. 



Illustrations of the Natural Orders. 



A portion (Heft) of Schnitzlein's elaborate and beautiful work on the 

 Natural Orders, viz. 'Iconographia Eamiliarum Eeg-ni Vegetabilis,' appeared 

 in the end of last year (1856). The part just pubbshed contains illustra- 

 tions of the Orders CafrifoUacece, Jasminece, Verbenacece, Globulariece, ■ 

 Asperifolieee, etc. To this brief notice the editor of the ' Botanische Zei- 



