XV1 INTRODUCTION 
supercrescences productions or excretions may bee 
obserued in England. 
Viscum—polypodium—Juli pilulee— 
Gemmee foraminate (formicate P) foliori— 
excrementum fungosum verticibus scatens— 
excrementum Lanatum— 
Capitula squamosa jaceeze emula. 
Nodi—melleus Liquor—Tubera radicum 
vermibus scatentia—Muscus—Lichen-— 
Fungus—vare querine.” 
In the volume the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, M.A., of 
Guestling Rectory, Sussex, suggests the ‘following 
explanatory notes : 
“1, Viscum, is doubtless the Mistletoe. 
“2. Polypodium, the Common Polypody Fern. 
“3. Juli pilule, ‘little balls on the flower catkins,’ 
the Currant Gall (Newroterus baccarum, which is the 
spring form of N. lenticularis, Oliv.). 
“4, Gemme foraminate (formicate?) foliorum, 
‘pimple-like buds on the leaves.’ Leaf-galls such as 
the Silky Button, N. numismatis, Oliv., and the 
common Spangle, N. lenticularis, Oliv. 
“5. Excrementum fungosum verticibus scatens, ‘ 
spongy secretion bursting out from the ends of seta 
The Oak Apple, Biorhiza terminalis, Fab. 
“6. Excrementum lanatum, the Woolly Gall, 
Andricus ramuli, L., a somewhat rare gall, resembling 
a ball of cotton wool. 
“7. Capitula squamosa jacez emula, ‘little scaley 
(or imbricated) heads resembling the heads of Jacea’ 
(Black Knapweed). The Artichoke Gall, Andricus 
fecundatriw, Htg. 
“8. Nodi, probably swellings of any sort, whether 
caused by insects or not. 
“9, Malleus liquor, honey-dew, a secretion of 
Aphides. 
“10. Tubera radicum vermibus scatentia, ‘ swollen 
tubers on the roots containing grubs’; without doubt 
the Root-gall, Andricus radicis, Fab. Polythalamous 
