20 SHORT NOTES AND QUERIES. 
aap tree. Renewed bark. 
Total alkaloids 6°36 per cent. 6°39 per cent. 
Quinine 1°36 321 
Cinchonidine and Cinchonine 5°00 3°18 
I have carried the a further, but that will be enough the 
purpose. he wed bark can scarcely be oved from the 
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moss. At present I am averse to the process, and do not think it can 
compare with coppicing. It requires much care, and can only be 
Ecurum viotacrum.—Under this name Mr. Edward Newman, in 
the Field, records the discovery of the Channel Islands plant “in 
some abundance near the Land’s End, by Mr. Ralfs, of Penzance.” 
He adds that ‘‘the high reputation of Mr. Ralfs as a botanist pre- 
cludes the possibility of a mistake in this instance.” 
GiaproLus mLyRicus, Hoch.—The re-discovery of this plant in the 
Isle of Wight cannot fail to possess much interest and weight in the 
question whether or not it is to be considered indigenous t than From 
Mr. A. G. te s account of the mer of this plant in the island, 
originally recorded in the Jo f the Linnean Society, vol. vi., 
p. 177, it ae that the only mes Ss n found, which is now in the 
herbarium of the Isle of Wight Philosophical Society at Ryde, was 
gathered in America Woods, near inthe in 1855, and since that 
according to their observations, ‘‘ seems to refer ae open, un unshel- 
spots on a sandy soil to sylvan situations, and this agrees with 
Continental habitats.” There is therefore some shop gonad that this 
plant is really native in the Isle of Wight.—Faep. Srrarron. 
*¢ Borany”’ (vol. ix. a pp. 114, 303).—-W, Coles, in his pr tet. io 
ringer rset oFie sad ’ (1656), uses this word in the mod erm sense. In 
Rey nae 
h ; 
“‘ Having already presented thee with one of the Handmaids of Physick, 
— is Botany, I conceive it not altogether impertinent to propose 
er, and that is Anatom This word is used in the same sense 
in fa the preface to his * Art of Simpling. %—-W. CARRUTHERS. 
