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cliffs of Kinnoul Hill, overlooking the Tay, it grows plentifully, alike 

 defying the intensity of winter cold and summer heat. John Sim. 



Perth, August, 1858. 



Lastbea Fcenisecii IN Sussex. 



It may perhaps interest some of the readers of the ' Phytologist ' to 

 hear that I found Lastrea Fcenisecii, Wats,, in Sussex, in the month of 

 June, this year, near the vdlage of Dallinglon, on the High Forest ridge, 

 ten miles north of Hailsham. It has already been found at the Erridge 

 Eocks near Tunbridge Wells, fifteen miles distant, and I have no doubt 

 it will prove to be generally distributed over the country. I also gathered 

 the true and typical Lastrea spinidosa, Presl, for the first time, although 

 for two or three years past I had gathered a var. L. clilatata in the 

 bebef it was the former plant, and it was not until I came upon the true 

 L. spimdosa in Dalliugton Forest that I recognized the very marked dis- 

 tinctions which exist between the two species. The outlines of the frond 

 are most markedly difterent. Moore's figure is, I think, scaircely correct 

 as representing the typical form of the species, which, so far as my ex- 

 perience goes, is a more lax plant, with pinnse more distant than repre- 

 sented in his plate, and altogether more unlike L. dilatata. 



J. Baeton. 



Is it knovm to whom the poet Southey refers in this passage, under the 

 name of " old lolo " ? 



" There went with me 

 lolo, old lolo, he who knows 

 The virtue of all herbs of mount or vale, 

 Or greenwood shade, or quiet brooklet's bed ; 

 Whatever lore of science, or of song, 

 Sages and bards of old have handed down." 



Southey's Madoc, p. I. viii. 



Poisonous Propeuties of the Mountain-Ash Berkies. 



On Monday afternoon, September 14, an inquest was held at Armley, 

 near Leeds, upon the body of Joseph Murgatroyd, a child five years old. 

 The deceased commenced vomiting on Friday afternoon, and died at 

 eleven o'clock the same night. On a post-mortem examination, the re- 

 mains of Mountain-Ash berries were found in the stomach, and Mr. 

 Eickards, the surgeon, was clearly of opinion they had caused death. I 

 forward this case because one of your correspondents seemed to think the 

 Eowen berries were not poisonous. B. C. 



September 20, 1858. 



Sir, — I wish to know whether the berries of the Mountain Ash (Fyrus 

 Aucuparia) are poisonous or not. In the ' Manchester Guardian,' which 

 I send along with this, you will see that a child is reported to have been 

 poisoned by eating them. The account of the case, as stated by a pre- 

 vious number of the ' Manchester Guardian,' is as follows : — " A lament- 

 able result has just attended a case of poisoning by eating the berries of 

 the Mountain Ash at Leeds. Joseph Murgatroyd, five years of age, son 

 of Mr. Murgatroyd, clothier, Armley, had been ailing for a fortnight, but 

 on Friday last he commenced vomiting dark matter, and continued to do 



