316 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Hac sanasse Telephum dieitur. . . . . Aliqui et Aanc panacem heracleon, 
alii sideritin, etc." (uti supra). Now, it is manifest that the four words 
I have italicised, all refer equally to the substantive planta (subaudita) ; 
whereas the annotator erroneously conceives hanc to agree with panacem. 
The construction, in a word, is not— This Panax is called by some 
Heracleon, by others Sideritis ;"" but—* Some call this plant Panax (or 
Panaces ?) heracleon, others Sideritis.” Were this not self-evident, it 
would be proved by the words of Theophrastus: “ IIoAAà 8€ éore kal tà 
mavaky Kat ot Tibi; L kal érep' d Ilávakes yàp KaXodor mpórov — 
ev TO êv Xvpía mepi ob puxp@ mpdrepov ei, . Aa 6 rà Tpía, TÓ pev 
Xetpóvewv. kaXopevov Tò © daoxAnmieov tò 9 2pákXewov." (Hist. Plant. 
ix. ll. ed. Wimmer.) And I may add that one of the most able of 
recent editors of Pliny, M. Littré, translates as I have done. I still 
believe, subject to correction, that the gender of Panax cannot be 
determined from Pliny.—H. F. Hance. 
IRISH PLANTS.—Sinapis nigra, L. I do not know why the authors 
of Cyb. Hibernica have thrown some doubt on this species being truly 
ative on our southern coasts. I have for some years been interested in 
d This is, apparently, hardly so rare as was believed in this county» 
It has probably been frequently confounded with U. minor, L.—Raphanus 
maritimus, Sm. his interesting species, which is new to southern 
to the occurrence of this lant in Drummond's station at Timoleague 
(co. Cork), as no recent botanist has found it there. This summer, how- 
MANCHESTER PLANTS.—Amongst the plants named by Mr. Grindon 
as absent from the Manchester district, I was rather surprised to fin 
Convoloulus arvensis, as the species is common with us at Newton-le- 
s olvul 
amum album, and Papaver Rheas, from Lancashire." This great 
extension of Mr. Grindon’s original statement renders it, perhaps, 
desirable to point out that, although. the plants named do not occur m 
the immediate neighbourhood of Manchester, they are, at no great dis- 
