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detecting a considerable mass of it. All were found at the foot of a 

 very steep woody bank, close to a brook; the soil very wet and stiff. 

 As the banks are very much trampled on at present (timber and faggots 

 being drawn along), I decided on digging it up, and planting it in a 

 similar spot in our own grounds." 



We trust, with the assistance of a drawing made by Mrs. Anderton 

 Smith, from the recent specimens, to give an accurate coloured figure 

 in the * Botanical Magazine,* of this rarity. Even upon the Continent 

 it appears to be seldom met with. It was first gathered in Siberia, by 

 Gmelin, who called it E^ipogium. It has since been discovered in 

 various alpine countries in the north and middle of Europe, Though 

 not a conspicuous plant, its flowers are very elegant, and highly curious 

 in structure. 



NOTICES or BOOKS. 



Seemann, Dr. Berthold : The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. 

 Herald, etc. etc. Fasc. 4, 5. 4to. London, 1853-4. Each with 

 10 plates. 



This valuable work rather increases than diminishes in interest, as it 

 proceeds. We briefly noticed the 3rd fasciculus in our last volume. 

 The 4th and 5 th have now appeared, in which the Elora of the Isthmus 

 of Panama is continued. In the 4th fasciculus the author carries out 

 his views of uniting Turneracea with Fassiflorace^B, and figures (at Tab. 

 27) his new genus, ^^ Erhlkhia^^ which tends to unite the two. 

 Another fine new Pentagonia (Rubiacese), P. TinajUay is figured; the 

 second new species he has detected. A full history of the medicinal 

 Guaco (MiJtania Guaco, H.B.), so celebrated among the Indians for 

 curin<' snake-bites, is given, and the accounts savour of the marvel- 



lous. 



America 



North and South, the various species of En^atoriners (despised as they" 

 are in European practice) are esteemed for the cures of all manner of 

 diseases which flesh is heir to: especially the "Bone-set" {Eupato- 

 rium perfoUatum) of the United States- At this moment, too, we re- 

 ceive from a well-informed gentleman of Jamaica, dried specimens of 

 " Eupatorium nervosum, E. villosum, and E. rigidum" accompanied by 



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