the early artists were inspired—which gained for its predecessors, the Legends of Saints and Martyrs, and Legends of the Monastic Orders, so favourable a reception. In treating of Her of whom Wordsworth sang "Woman, above all women glorified," as which is nearly allied to the palms, or, according to Endlicher, to the Pundanea. Ruiz and Pavon call it Phytelephas. Willdenow terms it Elephantusia. It grows, according to Humboldt, in the interior of S. America, and not on the Mascara Islands, as stated by Morren. It (the nut) consists externally of four envelopes of differently-formed parenchyma; then fol- in a manner to avoid giving offence to some religious lows the albumen, the proper so-called vegetable ivory, feeling, Mrs. Jameson has had a task of no ordinary which is externally dense and white, and of a remark- difficulty; for, as she well observes, it is impossible able structure. We find, namely, towards the circum-"to treat of the representations of the Blessed Virgin ference, cavities of irregular form; they then become six-sided, and, when seen in section, short straight canals run out from each angle. The cavities have a quincunxial arrangement. All the rest appears, when strongly magnified, a dense substance. But when a drop of Canada balsam is added, we see distinctly that the dense substance consists of parenchyma, and that the cavities communicate by the broader extremities of their branches. The internal structure resembles that of water plants; and the different density and firmness might probably arise from the delicacy of the compressed parenchyma."— Reports and Papers on Botany, Ray Society, 1845, pp. 396-7. R. W. F. Misprint in Prayer-Books (Vol. vi., p. 520.).— In the accurate reprint of the authorised version, according to the edition of 1611, given in Bagster's Critical Greek and English New Testament, the words "of GOD" are omitted in 1 St. John, v. 12. It would appear, therefore, that the Prayer-Books that leave them out in the "Epistle for the First Sunday after Easter" are in one sense the more correct, though merely following an oversight of A. A. D. The Fern Osmunda (Vol. ii., p. 199.; Vol. vi., p. 272.). As the propounder of the Query concerning this beautiful fern, allow me to quote a choice passage from Wordsworth's Poems on the Naming of Places, in which the name is derived from a 66 Queen Osmunda," a poetical fancy perhaps : the translators. "Many such there are, Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. without touching on doctrines such as constitute the John Evelyn has just been completed by the publica- The great his tion of the third and fourth volumes. by W. Sandys, F.S. 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