Carlisle.

Collar of Esses (Vol. ii., p. 393.).—­With reference to the suggestion in No. 54., to give examples of effigies bearing the collar, I beg to mention those at Northleigh Church, Oxon.  The following extract is from the Guide to Neighbourhood of Oxford:—­

“In Northleigh church, beneath an arch between the chancel and a chapel, is a fine perpendicular tomb, with two recumbent figures in alabaster,—­a knight in armour, with the Collar of SS; the lady with a rich turban and reticulated head-dress, and also with the Collar of SS.  The figures are Lord and Lady Wilmot; and attached to the monument are two small figures of angels holding shields of arms; on one is a spread eagle, on the other three cockle shells, with an engrailed band.”

JASPER.

Filthy Gingram (Vol. ii., p. 467.).—­The name “toad-flax” is evidently put by mistake, in Owen’s Dictionary, for “toad-stool,” a fungus, the Agaricus virosus of Linnaeus.  The common name in the North of England is “poisonous toad-stool.”  It is a virulent poison.  See * 248. 407, 408., in Sowerby’s English Fungi.

D.2.

Toad-flax, the yellow Antirrhinum, certainly does stink.

C.B.

The Life and Death of Clancie, by E.S. (Vol. ii., p. 375.).—­There is a copy in the Bodleian Library.

J.O.H.

“Rab.  Surdam” (Vol. ii., p. 493.).—­EDINENSIS. gives the above as the inscription on a tomb-stone, and requests an explanation.  It is very probable that the stone-cutter made a mistake, and cut “Rab.  Surdam” instead of “Rap.  Surum,” which would be a contraction for “Rapax Suorum,” alluding to Death or the Grave.  It seems {43} impossible to extract a meaning, from “Rab.  Surdam” by any stretch of Latinity.

G.F.G.

Edinburgh.

"Fronte Capillata,” &c. (Vol. iii., p. 8.).—­The hexameter cited vol. iii., p. 8., and rightly interpreted by E.H.A., is taken (with the slight alteration of est for the original es) from “Occasio:  Drama, P. Joannis David, Soc.  Jesu Sacerd.  Antv.  MDCV.,” appended to that writer’s Occasio, Arrepta, Neglecta; in which the same implied moral is expressed, with this variation: 

  “Fronte capillitium gerit, ast glabrum occiput illi.”

G.A.S.

This verse is alluded to by Lord Bacon in his Essay on Delays: 

“Occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken; or, at least, turneth the handle of the bottle first to be received, and after the belly, which is hard to clasp.”

L.