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Folia 3-4-uncialia varianter depresso-teretiuscula suc- 

 culenta, niveo laevi atque nitenti tomento, uti cau- 

 dices eleganter vestita, Kleinii tomentosi Nob. exacto 

 more, cui forsan ob multifaria folia affinis, sed non re- 

 sinosa ut in ilia. Foliorum majorum apices saepe plus 

 minus impressi potius quam planatim-spatulescentes. 

 Flores non vidi, sed secundum Dom. Bowie, corym- 

 bosi, et ut in Cineraria. 



Obs. Cinerariam cacalioidem cui forsan simillima 

 appareat proxima. 

 P.S. — The Epiphyllum truncatum Nob. Sup. PL Succ. p. 85. 

 has, since that publication appeared, been figured on t. 696. 

 of the Botanical Register; and my friend Mr. Hood, about 

 the end of November last sent me, from his fine collection at 

 South Lambeth, a specimen, in bloom, of this beautiful plant. 

 And the following is a description of its remarkable flower : 



Flos in medio apicis ramulorum terminalis, solitarius triun- 

 cialis subincurvulus elegantissimus, tubo cum germine subrect- 

 angulatim curvato. Germen nudum virescens truncatim 

 semunciale, subpyriforme, utroque carinulato, seu linea pro- 

 tuberante. Corollce tubus proprius satis crassus roseus ni- 

 tens, distanter petalino-squamosus ; et basi, calyculatus cum 

 foliolis reflexis oblongo-ovatis omnino corallinis coccineis, sed 

 inferne violascentibus. Petala propria^ numerosa, ringenti- 

 reflexa, calycinis foliolis valde similia. Stamina numerosa col- 

 lecta capillacea nitentia alba, apicem versus incur vula, peta- 

 lisque parum humiliora. Antherce (in nostro exemplo) ele- 

 gantes stramineae, sed exiguae; et (fortasse per Novembris 

 frigorem) sine fcecundante farina. 



XXX. On the supposed Subsidence of the German Ocean. 

 By A Correspondent. 



XT AVING only just met with No. 9, of Vol. II., for last 

 -*-•* September, of the Philosophical Magazine, it may be 

 useless, probably, (from the disputed point having been 

 settled,) to recommend that the following experiment should 

 be tried, in order to decide the hypothesis of Mr. Robberds, 

 on the former level of the German Ocean, viz. : A surveyor 

 should be employed to take an exact level from high water 

 mark of the present day — not the very highest tides, but a 

 mean spot of spring-tides — up to the furthest spot recorded 

 in Domesday, where a salina was situated, and then measure 

 down to the marine deposition, which, according to Mr. Rob- 

 berds, is found under an alluvial deposit. One composed of 



fresh 



