BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 281 
BeNTHAM, Botany of the Voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur. 
We have just received the Second Part of this valuable 
Work, which brings the Californian collection down to the 
Chenopodiacee, and it contains some new genera. For ex- 
ample, a new genus of Phytolaccec, Stegnosperma (Tab. 12.) 
Among Composite, Helogyne (Tab. 14) ;* Perityle (Tab. 15) ; 
Coreocarpus (Tab. 16); Acoma (Tab. 17), and Amauria. 
Figures are also given of Calliandra Californica, Benth. 
tab. 11; Hedyotis asperuloides, Benth. tab. 13; Metastelmon 
Californicum, tab. 18 ; Antirrhinum cyathiferum, tab. 19; 
Hyptis laniflora, tab. 20, (all new species). 
SERTUM PraAwTARUM, by H. B. Frevpine, Eso. and 
Grorce GARDNER, F.L.S. Part II. 
We had occasion to speak favourably of this useful work 
in a late number of the Journal on receiving the first part of 
it and we are happy to see a manifest improvement in the 
Present portion, not only in the execution of the plates, 
_ 8$ might be expected from the greater experience of the fair 
artist, but in the subjects also. Tab. 26 is Aplotaxis Simp- 
Soniana, a fine Composita from the Himalayan Mountains ; 
t. 27, Fuchsia pilosa ; t. 28, F. confertiflora, both from Peru; 
and t. 29, F. Caracensis from Caraccas ; tab. 30,31, Poly- 
botrya apiifolia, J. Sm. from Luzon; tab. 32, Asarum 
Hookeri (A. Canadense 8. Hook.) from N. W. America, 
and no doubt a distinct species ; tab. 33, Androstemma jun- 
ceum, Lindl. Swan River; tab. 34, Gomphia rotundifolia, 
ia; tab. 35, Gomphia Fieldingiana, Gardn. Pernambuco; 
tab. 36, Agaricus Gardneri, Berk. from Goyaz :— this is the 
curious phosphorescent Agaric discovered by Mr. Gardner, 
9f which there is an account in the Journal of Botany, vol. ii, 
P.427. The whole plant gives out a bright phosphorescent 
t, somewhat similar to that emitted by the larger fire- 
Ss Helogyne, Nutt, Am. Phil. Trans. v. 7, p. 449, which, however, be- 
ng to the same groups of Composite as Mr. Bentham's. . 
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