494 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
db not ccar there are found a few differences or aiciiek which 
ot occur in the octavo edition—for instance, the no. 3, Ouvi- 
randa, on p. 196, is printed ipaiced of Ouvirandra - p. 2 in the 
octavo edition; at the end of the account of no. 38, p. 204, 
Stburatia, the synonym “Mao, Forskel’’ is given, whereas in 
the octavo edition, p. 12, it is ‘‘ Maesa, Forschal’’; the name of 
no. 41, Dicophe, on p. 205, is an error for Dicoryphe, as it correctly 
appears on p. 12 of the octavo edition; and no. 74, Trilepsium, on 
p. 212 of the quarto edition, is 7 vilepisium on p. 22, of the octavo 
edition. No. 86is wanting from both editions; both editions under 
no. 70 quote Bruguiera, A. P. Dict. Se. Nat. [v. p. 875 (1806)]; and 
under no. 66, Paropsia. Nor., both editions quote ‘‘ Nov. Gen. 
Tab. xix. a referring doubtless to the work piaiey des iles, the 
regi 
Roemer Die ot Collect. ad omnem m botanicam ante 
Partim e propriis, ce = amicorum sche . A anreihigt con- 
cinnavit et edidit. Turi c. tab. en. 4, p. 3 (8 Thi. 10 gr.) 
(R. Allg. Hall. Lit. Tait 1810. Nr. bas Ediib. Jahrb. 
im Jahrg. 1 Heft.)’ 
The Collectanea apparently extended over three years, and not 
improbably the part containing Petit-Thouars’ Nova genera ma vada- 
gascariensia was published in 1808. It is not certain that the 
octavo edition (of 1808,) of which the quarto edition was a reprint 
Petit-Thouars, Mélanges, Disc. prélim. p. 19), was ever pub- 
lished until it appeared in the Mélanges in 1811. 
W. P. Hiern. 
SHORT NOTES. 
Castanza sativa Mill.—I do not know whether Messrs. Hanbury 
and bag ot l’s opinion (as expressed in their Flora of Kent) con- 
ce 
a stasis, occurring in so excellent a work, is certainly due to 
imperfect observation, it may be as well to correct it. The authors 
remark of the Spanish Chestnut: “ Frequently planted in woods 
and copses, but apparently never rhe itself from seed.” 
I have paid some attention to Castanea sativa as we find it growing 
in parks and plantations, and during the past ri years have in the 
autumn frequently found abundance of ripe fruit where chestuut 
trees grow. Previously I had arent the opinion that fruit was 
rare. Chestnuts, brought from a Surrey copse, have in my pos- 
session Bs act Mag into vigorous plants. ‘The reason, no doubt, why 
chestnut trees are seldom seen where C. sativa is planted 
is that che chestnuts have a market Nr and are seldom allowed 
to lie about for long. In a Midhurst guide-book it is stated that 
_ the celebrated avenue of chestnut trees in Cowdray Park 
