1857.] BOTANICAL NOTES^ NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. 141 



Let them first be well indoctrinated in botany, zoology, etc., 

 and they will be able to communicate, not mere facts about na- 

 tural objects, but a love and admiration of the beautiful and the 

 good. The men who admire and enjoy the productions of nature 

 are rarely besotted with the coarse enjoyments of sensualism. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 

 Leonard Plukenet. 



If you can find a corner in your very interesting Botanical Notes and 

 Queries for the following, it may draw attention to an individual, little of 

 whose history is at present current amongst us ; moreover, one who cer- 

 tainly deserves weU of aU botanists. 



Is the precise locality or dwelling-house where Plukenet resided in 

 Westminster known ? We are quite familiar with a pretty little copper 

 cut representing the interior of his study, and himself at work therein, — 

 and laboriously he must have wrought there. Up to the present hour it 

 may be fairly questioned whether any botanist has represented pictorially, 

 or has preserved in the herbarium, so large a number of previously un- 

 known plants in one lifetime, as Leonard Plukenet. 



March, 1857. A CiTlZEN OF WESTMINSTER. 



On the Exhibition or Eungi in Cases. By the Rev. H. H. Higgins. 



The author stated that a case in the Museum of the Royal Institution 

 of Liverpool had been placed at his disposal, and that he had filled it with 

 an'anged species of Fungi, numbering about 250 species, found in the 

 neighbourhood of Liverpool, and illustrating the principal families and 

 genera. The specimens, which had been dried without pressiu'e, and re- 

 tained in many cases their natural form and colour, were glued on oblong 

 tablets of wood. This was the only series exhibited to the pubUc in 

 England or elsewhere, so far as known to the author, whose object was to 

 attract more general attention to these interesting but much neglected 

 plants. — Gard. Citron. 



Arum italicum, Mill. 



{From the 'Manual of British Botany.') 



Leaves triangular-hastate, with divaricate lobes and yellow veins ap- 

 pearing in the autumn. Spathe ventiicose below, opening nearly flat, very 

 broad above. Berries three-seeded. — I learn from Mr. Hambrough that 

 A. italicum is veiy plentiful in the south of the Isle of Wight, and that 

 it flowers in June, about a month later than A. macidatum. 



[Will any good-natured botanist send us a specimen or a detailed ac- 

 count of the above Arum, which we do not find in Dr. Bromfield's ' Elora 

 Yectensis'?] 



Horse- Chestnut Flour. — The following is M. Elandin's plan of making 

 flour fi-om Horse-Chestnuts. Grind the Horse-Chestnuts, and mix with 

 the pvdp Carbonate of Soda, in the proportion of one or two per cent, at the 



