222 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [^September, 



species, neatly mounted and in a case. Price 21s. each. Fascicle I. 100 

 species of the rarer plants of Aberdeenshire. II. The remainder of the 

 above, including the genera Rubus, Rosa, Hieracium, etc. etc. III. The 

 rarer Ferns, Mosses, Lichens, etc. 



Subscribers' names for any of the above may be sent to W. S., 18, Bon- 

 accord Terrace, Aberdeen, or to Mr. Irvine, 28, Upper Manor Street, 

 Chelsea. 



Plants in Chukchyaiids. 



Allow me to correct an eiTor in the quotation, page 189, in the August 

 number of the 'Phytologist.' 



The passage in ' Cymbeline ' (Act 4, Scene 2) is as foUovFS, and its 

 beauty should not be injiu'ed. 



" With fairest flowers, 

 Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, 

 I '11 sweeten thy sad grave ; thoii shalt not lack 

 The flower that 's like thy face, pale primrose ; nor 

 The azur'd harebell, like thy veins ; no, nor 

 The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, 

 Outsweeten'd not thy breath." 



In the same Act there is the following : — 



" Here 's a few flowers ; but about midnight more : 

 The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night 

 Are strewings fit for graves." 



In ' Pericles, Prince of Tyre,' is the following : — 



" The yellows, blues, 

 The purple violets and marygolds, 

 Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave 

 Wliile summer days doth last." 



S. B. 



Tansy. 



" M. de Morogues announces that this plant, diied, is excellent food 

 for sheep, and that, when fresh, it makes capital litter for domestic ani- 

 mals. Its peculiar balsamic odour most effectually drives away fleas ; a 

 lapdog sleeping on a bed of fresh Tansy is immediately freed fi'om these 

 vermin. It should be renewed when the leaves are quite dry. This seems 

 a better application of the plant than following the example of our ances- 

 tors, — making it into cakes, and employing it as an ingredient in pud- 

 dings." — Gard, Chron. 



Brassica oleracea. 



A correspondent asks what evidence there is of the fact stated by Mr. 

 Cheshire in the December number of the 'Phytologist,' p. 494, viz. "The 

 cabbage of the sea-shore is the same species as the cabbage of the garden, 

 or rather was the parent of the cultivated varieties " ! And again, on 

 p. 495 : " The experiment is perfectly fair in the case of trying to cultivate 

 Triticum sativum from JEgilops ovata.'' Is it a fact that the Winter Wheat 

 {T. sativmn) has been produced from any JEgilops ? 



