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everywhere mingled with it, and overtopping the blades are two small 
herbaceous species of Panas (is one the Ginseng ?), two of Convallaria 
(one has whorled leaves and a poisonous root), two drums (one the 
broad-hooded species of Sinchul top), Viola, an Elaterium? Iris, 
Thalictrum, Aconitum palmatum,* Rheum, one or two Ranunculi, and 
Anemone? Meconopsis napalensis, Geranium, a dwarf Hypericum and 
various creeping things. Gentiana two species, Crawfurdia, Potentilla, 
Epilobium, Androsace, and Paris. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Notices, hitherto unpublished, concerning JOHANN CHRISTIAN DANIEL 
VON SCHREBER. From ERINNERUNGEN AUS MEINEM NEUNZIG- 
XXHRIGEN LEBEN (Reminiscences: of my Ninety Years Life). By 
Dr. Ernst WILHELM Martius, formerly Apothecary to the Court 
and University of Erlangen. Leipzig, 1847. 8vo. Translated by N. 
WaLLICH, M. et Ph. D., F.R.S., V.P.L.S. 
[THE subject of these pages, a man of very great celebrity and uni- 
versal estimation as a botanist and zoologist, has enriched the science 
of natural history with works of his own, of sterling and enduring 
value, as well as with editions of the works of others. Among the 
latter are the ‘ Amoenitates Academice’ and * Genera Plantarum’ of 
Linnzus, of whom he was one of the most distinguished pupils. To 
the ‘ Amovnitates’ he added three posthumous volumes; and | am 
very happy to be able, through the kind indulgence of the President of 
the Linnzean Society, to add, at the end of these Notices, the copy of a 
letter from Schreber to Dr. Dryander relating to that work. In the 
valuable edition of the * Genera, he performed, among others, the 
laborious, but praiseworthy task, of giving classical names, in accordance 
with the laws laid down by the author himself—the immortal Linnzus 
—to the insufferably barbarous and arbitrary nomenclature of the other- 
wise most valuable work of Fusce Aublet. None but those who have 
* One of the plants whose roots are used indiscriminately by the natives, for poi- 
soning their arrows ; the others are another Aconife (not feror) and a Composite. 
The poison is rubbed on, with the juice of a Pothos. 
