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at Derryea, the property of Mr. iieae about a mile off, in the same 
county. This is the ‘“‘makinboy” of Threlkeld, who narrates “that 
a country empirick gave a dose of it boiled in milk to as rong clever 
youth, about eight miles from Clonmell, which excite i a violent 
hyper-catharsis with convulsions, upon whic — de that 
night before ten o’clock.”’ In Galway it is know ’ 
“4 Coasay " originally meant root, but is clloqully epplie to the 
“< bwee” means yellow—‘“ma kin- English 
therefore Barre parsnip.” The Galway people senshi ita i saul 
ations nevaeete it is sometimes given, generally to the un- 
knowing in the way of a practical joke. I was told of one individual 
‘Gort who was dosed with nel a couple of years ago, and a spectator 
assured me that he ‘ran up and down the street like a madman, an 
swelled so big that his friends had to bind him round with hay-ropes 
of the root hee which its strongest properties ae and scrape it into 
some boiling liquid, generally tea, which draws out its essence ; but 
they eng believe that ‘‘if the root be sasaiien ie it will work up- 
a grea 
extent as Ss I ts with nearly the same theory hi ras to 
the streams, in order to Sete the fish and render them an easy prey. 
By the side of the stream at Chevy Chace in two places grows Equi- 
setum trachyodon (Mackaii, Newman), and in the woods Carer pen- 
Scirg us setaceus , Stsymbrium offict 
toate eported from ea County Te 
ough in Don egal jae it has been nd fated: in 
quantities) it grows on caine —H. €. Hart 
Catia PausTris PLANTED 1N SukeEy.—This plant has recently 
been collected, seemingly nik in North Surrey. We are able to 
state that the species was planted there in the year 1861 by a — 
