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foliis liueari-angustis apicem versus margine scabris, inferioribus cul- 

 mnm, floralibus pedunculos sequantibus. — Q,uod ad fructum similis (7. 

 Linileyanm^ differt pedunculis paucifloris, squamis angustioribus pal- 

 lide fuscis opacis, Culmus i-f ped. altus. 



BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



WelwitscJis Portuguese Plants. 



]VIr. Pamplin has on sale, iu Fritb-streetj several sets of Welvvitscli's 

 Cryptogamic Plaiits of Portugal ; viz. of Fungi, Lichens^ Seaweeds^ 

 Mosses, and HepaticcB. The price of each (or all) is 305. per 100 spe- 

 cies* They are exceedingly well prepared, and many of them correctly 

 named, especially the Fungi by Mr. Berkeley. — One complete set alone 

 remains on sale of the PJitenogamous plants, containing nearly 1200 

 species, the price of which is 25s. the 100 species, 



Australian Eucalypti. 



We learn, from an article inserted in the * Gardeners' Chronicle' 



Mr. John Walters 



Melbourne 



on a monograph of the genus EucalgptuSy for which purpose he had 

 visited South Australia, and, in May last, had been for three months 

 residing on the Dandynoy range of hills, Melbourne, "in which place 

 alone he had discovered some hundreds of species." " The sum of £800 

 has been set apart by Government, to cover the expenses of this un- 



dertaking." We 



liberality 



Mr. Swainson is well able to 



depict the protean forms of these *' Gum-trees;" but we trust he will 

 not mistake varieties for species. 



Palph^s Plants of New Zealand. 



Mr. Pampl 



