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MISCELLANIES. 
Spurzheim, and were communicated to us during a visit we had the pleasure of 
paying Mr, L. some time since.— Ed. 
BOTANY. 
(Enothera speciosa.- —This species has been cultivated several years in Europe 
as an ornamental plant, but it is a new fact that it secretes at the bottom of its 
corolla a sweet liquid, which is glutinous enough to retain prisoners several species 
of Sphinx^ especially those which frequent the Vine, the Bindweed, and the 
Milk Thistle. 
Agarictis cochleatus^ Eng. FL V. II. p. 69.—Inverary” is the only recorded 
station for this rare Agaric in Scotland. It may therefore be worth while to 
mention, that I gathered it in great perfection, on November 17, 1836, in the 
plantation around Foulden House, Berwickshire.' —George Johisston, M. D. 
Additions to Cooper’s Flora Metropolitana.—Bilene olites. —This uncommon 
plant, in the vicinity of London, was discovered in Charlton Chalk-pit, Kent, last 
summer, by Miss S. Berkeley, from whom I possess specimens.— Crocus aureus, 
■—I also found this not very uncommon species, in Charlton Wood, in company 
with Messrs. Chatterley and Lee, who also met with it in Battersea Fields. 
The locality in Charlton Wood is rather complicated. This species is not men¬ 
tioned in Lindley’s Synopsis. — Daniel Cooper. — Magazine of Zoology and 
Botany^ Vol. p. 495—6. 
Addition to the paper on the Medicinal Plants of Yorkshire. —I take 
this opportunity of inserting an unintentional omission, as well as of correcting a 
slight error which occurred in the paper on the Medicinal and Poisonous Plants 
of Yorkshire, in the last No. of the Naturalist. After Artemisia asynthium^ insert 
the Common Tansy, Tanacetmn vulgare. Herb; aromatic, &c. Banks of the 
Ouse, above and below York.—An old herbarist who lived at York, and whose 
death was announced in the papers a few months ago, informed me that, with an 
assistant, he on one occasion went up the Ouse in a boat, and as he proceeded 
cut the Tansy, which grew in profusion on the banks for some miles. He re¬ 
turned the following day, and on bringing them home, found, if I remember 
rightly, that the produce of his day’s work amounted to about 70 stone in weight. 
—^Under the head of Menyantlies trifoliata.) North East” has been accidentally 
inserted for North West, of Yorkshire.—E. Doncaster^ April 20, 1837. 
