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tance from it, to be met with in South Lancashire. Convolvulus arvensis 
is common at peine and I have also observed it at Kenyon, some 
two or three miles nearer Manchester ; in whether ^ is equally abundant 
at the latter pisdi; o or exten nds further n the direc a Pee chester, I 
d P. 
lifolia. Of the scented Labiate we have besides Thymus serpyllum and 
Stachys sylvatica, S. palustris and Mentha arvensis. Ballota nigra I 
have not seen.—THomas ComBER. 
RANUNCULUS CHJAROPHYLLOS, L.—I went this afternoon (Nov. 
6th) to the S. Aubin’s habitat to collect a few plants with their first 
ach plant po: 
sesses five or si é, passing gradually from flabellate with a few 
scam to leaves ovate i 
three deeply cut divisions. The ae or A leaf is dra trifoliolate. 
The leaves described and figured in my paper, at pp. 225-8, are, as there 
stated, only those of the flowering plant.—[Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
TYL —These are described by German writers — the names 
Fuellzellen, ‘Thyllen, and Tuellen. I presume the !ast two are merely 
different modes of spelling the same word. Tuellen is the plural of the 
vessel. Sachs mentions them as biogr seen in old roo ucurbita 
and in the wood of Robinia pseudacacia. ippel. A Minden ii. 
245) figures them in Vitis —— one large vess ea havin ng several 
ingle Tuelle, which at first sight looks 
Dippel mentions that he has 
Cucurbita, Vitis, Robinia, ete. 
e Nerium, 
Tyloses does not look a very objectionable word—but what does it 
me Nas 
an?—W. R. Mc 
MISTLETOE ON THE OAK a meeting of the Worcestershire 
B arare Club, held on Oct. Pw Mr. J. Twinberrow announced the 
discovery of a cond mistletoe oak in the county, at Lindridge, near the 
Shropshire boundary. This makes the fourteenth known — in 
England. 
Extracts and Abstracts. 
IPECACUANHA CULTIVATION IN BENGAL. 
From the Report of the Royal. Hotapie Gardens, at Caleutta, dated 14th 
May, 1872, we take the following 
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gy. 
