302 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [December, 



in moist places in Douchland ; flowereth. in March ; fruit ripe in September ; 

 fruit is astringent, like Medlars. The Sorb Apples, or service berries, are 

 like Medlars in virtue and operation. The bark of one kind of Sorbus, 

 wliich is om- Quick Beam, is used instead of Tamarisk for diseases of the 

 melt," etc. S. B. 



POA GLAUCA? 



Many years ago I collected at Foalfoot, Ingleborough, what I thought 

 was Poa glaiica of Smith, and it is quoted so in his ' English Flora.' 

 Eather lately there had been gathered in the same place, — I tliink, by 

 Backhouse or Baker, or both, — what is called P. Balfourii. Can you tell 

 me if they are the same plants ? Mr. Baker, who saw my specimen, and 

 gave me one of P. Balfourii, thought they were the same. On the other 

 hand, a person told me lately that they had them both as distinct in the 

 Dublin Botanic Garden. John Windsok. 



P. S. The viviparous form of Cynosurus cristattis, mentioned in the 

 " Herts Flora " in your last number of the ' Phytologist,' I see is aUuded 

 to in Smith's Flora Brit. vol. i. p. 112. 



Note. — An extract from our correspondent's letter is printed, to give 

 the pleasm-e of solving his doubts to such of our readers as- are better 

 acquainted with the plants in question than we are. 



Hypnum ochraceum. Turn., in the Isle op Man. 



In the present volume of the ' Phji;ologist,' p. Ill, I have given "the 

 stream near Castletown " as a locality for " a cmious fluitant form of 

 Hypnum palustre." Upon a subsequent careful examination, I find that it 

 is a distinct species, viz. H. ochraceum of Tru'ner. J. H. Davies. 



TliirsJc. 



Agaricus campestrts. 



While gathering a stew for supper, on the 30th September, I stumbled 

 on a curious, and perhaps unusual, state of Agaricus campestris. On the 

 pileus, about fom* inches in diameter, was another small one (say a sixth- 

 part as large as the fonner) reversed, and apparently veiy comfortable. 

 There was no trace of a joining ; the smaU one, in fact, seemed to be grow- 

 ing out of the larger. I do not see any other solution than this, viz. that 

 they were growing inclined to one another when young, grew into each 

 other (as the branches of trees occasionally do), and, the larger one obtain- 

 ing the mastery, the smaller was uprooted and made to stand on his head, 

 as in the enclosed figure. I may add that both appeared remarkably 

 healthy. W. F. 



St. Bees, October Uli, 1857. 



Salicornia herbacea. 



"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." 



It may be interesting to your correspondent Mr. H. Groves, to know 



that Salicornia herhacea is extensively used in Lincolnshire as a pickle, and 



occasionally, I believe, is boiled and used as " greens." I have seen people 



fetch it away for sale by cartloads from the coast off Saltfieet. The in- 



