632 BOTANICAL NOTEs^ NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [November. 



that any reason why it may not be found in Scotland ? The common 

 Nettle {JJrtica dioica) has a wider range. It gi'ows abundantly in Malta 

 and the West Indies as well as in Great Britain. Plants are usually, I 

 believe, more restricted in their climatal extent, yet the exceptions are too 

 numerous and well attested to be called in question by any reasonable 

 and unprejudiced mind. But on the subject of the geogi'aphy of plants 

 few botanists are agreed ; it is one of those questions which, I am afraid, 

 will never be satisfactorily solved by man. 



" In regard to Aremonia agrimonloides, while I admit the possibility of 

 its iatroduction by human agency, yet I unhesitatingly demur to its pro- 

 bability. If the other plant was not showy nor ornamental, this is less 

 so ; the flowers are small and inconspicuous, and of short duration, and 

 nearly hidden by the profusion of leaves which arise from the base of the 

 stem. In the eye of the practical gardener it cannot be an object of 

 attraction. A culinary vegetable it is not, neither am I aware that, like 

 its congener, Agrimonia Hupaioria, it is used in medicine, and besides, as 

 far as I can learn, no botanical garden or nurseiy ever existed where it 

 grows, and the immense trees under whose spreading branches it takes 

 umbrage strongly militate against the supposition that either nursery, ■ 

 cottage-garden, or cottage, coixld have been where it is for (the apparent 

 age of the trees considered) the last seventy or eighty years. If these 

 remarks are not suflBcient to establish the claim of both these plants, es- 

 pecially the latter, to at least naturalization, I can only say to those who 

 doubt, Come and see." " Seeing is believing." 



Lilac in Bloom. 



"... On my return to Belgium a week ago (the 8th), I found the 

 Lilacs beginning to bloom a second time this year. The opening of the 

 flowers was checked by two or three nights of rather severe frost, but the 

 weather is once more extremely mild for the season." L. 



[Have any of our correspondents or readers observed a similar occui'- 

 rence in this tree? — Ed.] 



Communications have been received from ' 

 John Barton ; W. P. ; Henry Grove ; Arch. Jerdon ; Harriet Beisly 

 Eev. W. H. Hind; E. J. ; W. P. ; J. G. Baker; E. Green; W. B., jun. 

 John Lloyd ; J. H. Davies ; Maxwell T. Masters ; E. Hodgson ; H. C. 

 T. W. B. Ingle; B. C. ; F. Beresford Wright; E. Y. Brocas; A. E 

 Stansfield and Sons ; E.G.; Dr. Benjamin Carrington ; Miss J. Hutton 

 John Sim; Sidney Beisly ; J. S. M.; C. Hobkirk;'^S. P. ; Querist; S. E 



BOOKS RECEIVED EOE REVIEW. 



Prescotis Tobacco and its Adulterations. 



Transactions of the Malvern Naturalists' Field Club. 



The Friend. 



The Critic. 



Sowerbys British Wild Flowers. Parts III. and IV. 



Pliny's Natural History. Vol. VI. 



Ebeata in the October number. — In the " Contents," and at p. 581, for T. 

 Barton read 3. Baeton. 



