SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 153 
RUM EUROFÆUM, L. A PLYMovTH PraNT.—Mr. Brit 
ater Bot., vol, VEIL., p. 161, pen making some remarks on this seeds 
i say Mr. n d t 
Plymouth; plant said to be found wild in an old quarry in the neigh- 
bourhood.” Moreover, Mr. Keys refers to the same specimen in his 
* Flora of Devon and Cornwall,” and also quotes the label in a note. I 
happen t able to assert most positively that this ar is simply an 
introduction at Ham, as the gentleman (named above as the Rev. C. T 
Collins, now the Rev. C. T. Collins Trelawny), who still owns and resides 
it has now become very abundant, and has spread in all directions 
years since, I, when a young botanist, found a few roots of this Serophu- 
laria a little beyond the area of the others, and not then knowing anything 
it was duly chronicled. Shortly after I received a letter from : 
Trelawny, acquainting me with the particulars of its introduction. Mr. 
Banks was more than careless as regards recording garden plants as if 
indigenous, aud in his unfinished * Plymouth and Devonport Flora’ such 
species as y areis majalis, Datura Stramonium, and Vinca major are 
included, the last being found, according to him, “ not oe att vnde Ina 
d wild state, far pen from cultivated places." —T. R. ARCHER 
GGs. 
Fe ERTILIZATION OF GRassEs. — Through the kindness of Professor 
on the yebes of the cross- “fertilization of wheat. There are, however, 
two points in which his experience of South American grasses is at 
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