

224 BOTANICAL NOTES^ NOTICES^ AND QUERIES. [September. 



Medicago maculata. 



Do the spots which are generally found on the leaves of this plant dis- 

 appear duiing its flowering, so that it might be mistaken for Medicago 

 denticulata ? M. Jolliffe, Ryde. 



What is the etymology of Berberis ? 



Does Corydalis solida grow still in groves and thickets in Lavau's 

 Park, five miles fi'om Kendal, or in any of the other stations recorded in 

 Withering's arrangement of the British Plants ? 



What are the merits of the Osage Orange-tree {Madura aurantiacd) as 

 a hedge plant ? 



Is Cochlearia officinalis an annual plant in mountainous or alpine places ? 

 This species, like several of our maritime British plants, is not restricted 

 to the seacoast. It is plentiful in the Craven district of Yorkshire, at no 

 very great elevation, and on some of the hills occm's at a very consider- 

 able altitude. 



' Phytologist,' p. 20, Mr. Davies writes: "The paucity of wood and 

 rocks renders the hills not very prolific." Animals are prolific or non- 

 prolific : the earth or the hills are fertde or ban-en. " Prolific" is from 

 proles, and "fertile" ixonxfero, I bear. ZoiLUS. 



Our correspondent's (W. M.) suggestion of publishing annual amended 

 lists of Cryptogamous species is under consideration. 



The Pern sent by Mr. J. Jones, parish clerk of Llanderfel, is Lastrea 

 Oreopteris, var. truncata, T. Moore, a very interesting, and by no means 

 a common variety. 



Communications have been received from 



P.L.S. (Walsingham Abbey); W. P.; John Barton; Sydney Beisly; 

 C. Cardale Babington, F.K.S. (two communications) ; J. S. Mill ; J. H. 

 Davies ; Maxwell Masters ; Charles Howie ; W. Molyneux ; John Lloyd ; 

 George Lawson, Ph.D.; Eev. Hugh Macmillan; P. B. W. ; Rev. T. F. 

 Eavenshaw ; W. 3. ; C. C. Babington, P.L.S. ; J. Jones, Llanderfel. 



BOOKS EECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 



Molyneux s Trentham and its Gardens. 



Smith's Catalogue of Ferns. 



The London Botanical Society'' s Catalogue of British Plants, ffth edition. 



EERATA. 



At page 186 occur the following words : — " It is weU known that only one plant 

 in 800 is common to Austraha and Em-ope." And again : " In Anstraha, in 1814, 

 the plants of New Holland were reckoned at 3700 flowermg species, of which 45, 

 just g-^th part, were also Europeans." This should be ^th, or one flant in 80. 



In p. 148, in the sentence commencing " The white road wmdiug in and out," 

 etc., read without the — after " Llanberis Lake" and "sunhght;" aiid for 

 " melts into the upper lake " read " till it reaches the shore of the upper lake." 



