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Resinosa et Balsamica. XI. Narcotica. Appendix, Tingentia. 
A “ Tabula concors Plantarum que usu medico nuncupantur 
in Europa et in Brasilia," is appended; and it surprizes an 
European to see how many Brazilian plants are employed as 
substitutes for vegetable substances long used in the Old 
World. The work must be a highly important one to every 
medical student. "We find the same use made of the Papaw 
tree (Carica Papaya) in Brazil, for which it has been cele- 
brated in the West Indies; the leaves are employed to make 
old and tough meat tender, “quam ob causam vidi aviculas 
€. g. psittacos, priusquam coquo traderentur, in Papaye folia 
involutas." Martius observes that a similar property is at- 
tributed to the Wallnut (Juglans regia) in Europe. 
Herbarium of M. Delessert. 
M. Laségue, Curator of the Herbarium of M. Benjamin 
Delessert at Paris, is preparing a detailed notice of the rich 
botanical collections which it embraces, which cannot fail to 
be of considerable interest to the scientific world, containing, 
as it does, such a number of authentic plants from various 
sources. There will also be given some remarks on the 
Herbaria appertaining to the principal public establishments 
of Europe, as well as the more extensive ones which belong 
to private Botanists. 
HERBARIUM OF THE DuBLIN COLLEGE. 
It is perhaps not universally known that the late Dr. 
Coulter, a pupil of De Candolle’s, who distinguished himself 
in his early career as the author of an excellent dissertation 
on Dipsacee, in 1823, and afterwards by his travels and col- 
lections made in Mexico and California, held the appoint- 
ment of Curator to the Herbarium above-mentioned in 
Trinity College, Dublin, for some years previous to hi 
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