58 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Anthere 3, monadelphee, sessiles, margine arctissime cohzerentes, bi- _ 
loculares, extrorse, longitudinaliter dehiscentes ; pollen spheericum : 
—Feminei furcis ramorum solitarii, nudi, pedunculati, peduneulo 
fructifero elongato. Perigonium triphyllum, foliolis acutis. Ovaria 3, 
libera, dorso carinata, facie contigua, demum pedicellata, unilocularia ; 
ovulum wnieum, pendulum. Drupe 3, v. abortu pauciores,— Herba 
aquatica, Ruppise facie. Caulis dichotomus. Folia angustissima, bast 
vaginantia, minutissime serrulata, acuta. 
Lepileena australis, J. Drum. 
Has. Common in the Colonial rivers. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Note on the Vegetation of Rowmelia and Bulgaria. 
Lieutenant-Colonel Cocks presents his compliments to Sir William 
Hooker, and begs to send him a copy of his rough notes on the wild 
flowers, shrubs, and trees in Roumelia and Bulgaria,* trusting that 
they may prove of interest, in case some good botanist has not already 
communicated his researches in these countries; as Colonel Cocks is 
obliged to acknowledge that he knows but little of the matter in à 
scientific point, and has merely picked up a smattering from an intense 
‘love of his garden. However, if Sir William will take these notes for 
— what they are worth, they are entirely at his service. 
-~The common scrub of Bulgaria is composed of dense bushes of 
Paliurus aculeatus, Rhus Cotinus, and the common stove Berberry, in- 
_termixed with small trees of the Hop Hornbeam, and some small Oak, 
making the whole of the country like one vast shrubbery, particularly 
pretty when the Paliurus and Rhus Cotinus are both in flower, the 
former making a bright yellow blaze, and the marabout feathers of the 
Rhus Cotinus giving a hazy, misty look, as if the setting sun was shining 
on a cloud, giving it an orange and crimson tinge. The flowers beneath 
are Sweet William, or something akin to it; the large brilliant Tychnis 
fulgens, looking like a bright crimson Carnation ; Erythrea, the common 
CR We are sure that any observations upon the vezetati E ved 
. onthe Back Sen will be ed with interest, een though written by one who wil n 
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