60 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
oil plant grows there in gardens to the size of apple-trees ; and in the 
“ Prince’s Islands," opposite Stamboul, is an Acacia, called by the 
Turks ** Ambeer,” very like 4. affinis in foliage aud flower, excepting 
that in place of flowering in the spring, they are produced in Septem- 
ber, when the Greeks pick the round yellow blossoms, and after fasten- 
ing them to sprigs of Arbor-vite, they decorate their churches; and 
the Turkish ladies place the flowers among their clothes, as they have 
a strong aromatic smell, something between pine-apple and sandal- 
wood. There isa fruit called ‘*4erania,” either Prunus or Cerasus, like 
an elongated carnelian cherry, very astringent in taste, making a deli- 
cious drink after stewing and mixing in cold water; the foliage like 
the Spindle-tree; but I could not find out its name, but have given 
James Veitch, jun., some of its elongated stones, which are something 
like those of a Date. There are whole fields of purple and pink Lark- 
spur about Scutari, but whether wild or cultivated, I could not dis- 
cover, though often evidently self-sown. The only Ferns were Lastrea 
aculeata and. Pteris aquilina. 
Treverbyn-vean, Liskeard, January 8, 1855. 
Nomenclator Filicum. 
We gladly give increased publicity to a notice that has appeared in 
the forty-ninth number of the *Beilage zur Botanischen Zeitung,’ for 
. December 8, 1854, respecting a Nomenclator Filicum, which is in pre- 
= paration by Dr. J. W. Sturm, of Nürnberg. All engaged in publish- 
. ing on phzenogamous plants feel the value of Steudel's * Nomenclator : 
but this will go further than that, for under each species a full syno- 
 nymy will be given, references to figures and localities, with the respec- 
tive authorities for the countries named. 
_ “From the extent," says Dr. Sturm, “to which the study of Ferns 
_ 3s carried, and the zeal of numerous collectors in foreign countries, our 
. collections of Ferns have so much increased, that the number of known 
. species may be estimated at about 5000. 
_ “The number of works on Ferns has increased. pari passu with the 
number of species; this is proved not only by such excellent large 
works as those of Fée, Hooker, Kunze, Presl, ete., and by many valu- 
able Monographs, but also by the publication of great numbers of new 
. Species in scientific periodicals and elsewhere, 
