256 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [Octobsr. 



the botanical sense of this term. In a shady valley of Provence, named 

 Moulin Blanc, there are here and there plantations of this tree, and the 

 fruit has been dispersed through the agency of the streams, and there are 

 now many trees naturally propagated dming the last and present centuries. 

 ,, The fatherland of this tree is probably Persia and Asia Minor. It is 

 ; not wild at Constantinople nor in Greece. Eecent travellers do not report 

 this tree as a native of the latter country. It is said also to be found wild 

 in the southern provinces of Caucasus. 



WherQ is the account of Professor Buckman's discovery that Trifolium 

 pratenm and T. medium are identical as species, or constitute but one^ not 

 two, species ? 



[See ' Phytologist,' vol. ii. p. 114, where Professor Buckland is erro- 

 neously entered for Professor Buckman.] 



What is the plant alluded to by Shakespeare, when he says — 



" Or hast thou eaten of the insane root 

 That takes the reason prisoner?" — Macbeth. S. B. 



Has any botanical observer ever noticed Scutellaria minor upwards of a 

 yard high, and of a branching and straggling habit ? 



NOTICES TO COREESPONDENTS. 



The correspondent who sent the Rubtis (his cipher is mislaid) is hereby 

 informed that the plant sent to be named is E. laciniatus, Willd. An 

 obliging friend has informed us that its origin is unknown ; but that in 

 Sir W. Hooker's herbarium a sheet of specimens has a note from Sir James 

 E. Smith, stating that he had this plant from the Eev. H. Davis, from 

 Beaumaris. Mr. Howie is requested to give us more particulars about the 

 plant he sent, which is Agrimonia agrinionoides, L. {Aremonia, Neck., A. 

 agrimonoides, DC), a plant indigenous to the south of Europe, viz. Greece, 

 Italy, Hungary, Turkey, etc. 



Miss Hutton is informed that the Australian Ranunculus, sent to the 

 ' Phytologist ' some time ago, is R. plebejus, Br. 



Communications have been received from 



Sydney Beislv; Dr. Lhotsky; J. E. S. ; W. Sutheriand; J. S. MUl; 

 W. C. ; Charles" Howie; W. MarshaU; A. Stamfield; J. W. K. ; John 

 Barton ; John Lloyd ; Eev. Eobert C. Douglas ; William Clieshire ; John 

 H. Davies ; Professor Alphonse De Candolle ; Dr. Lauder Lindsay ; J. B. ; 

 J. Jones; R. C. D. ; Miss Hutton; Dr. J. Windsor, F.L.S. ; S. B. ; Eev. 

 J. Jennings; Ann Eussell; E. Edwards. 



BOOKS RECEIVED FOR REVIEW. 



Irvine's British Plants, Part II. 

 Moore's Index Filicim,, Part IV. 



