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lent plants, cultivated in the neighbourhood of 

 London, and is written in Latin, with English 

 observations. In 1819, he published a sup- 

 plement to this work; and he afterwards con- 

 tinued the subject in the Philosophical Magazine 

 for September, 1824, by the first of a series of 

 papers under the title of <f Decades" of new 

 Succulent Plants, each containing a regular and 

 scientific distribution often distinct species of new 

 and unrecorded plants, of that description. Of 

 these Decades twelve are already before the pub- 

 lic, the last of them having appeared in th num- 

 ber for February, 1830. In 1821, Mr. Ha. 

 worth brought out an octavo volume, under the 

 following title " Saxifragearum Enumeratio ; 

 Accedunt revisiones plantarum Succulentarum ." 

 The preface, which is dated Cottingham, near 

 Hull, January 7, 1817, mentions a Dissertation, 

 published by the author, in 1803, on such spe^ 

 cies of the Linnsean genus, Saxifraga,* as he had 

 seen alive, or found cultivated in the gardens of 

 England. In addition to the Decades already 

 mentioned, Mr. Haworth has made several 

 contributions to the Philosophical Magazine ; 

 In the number for September, 1823, appeared 

 <' A few Observations on the natural distri- 



* This treatise formed the fourth Dissertation included in the " Mis- 

 " cellanea Naturalia," appended to the first part of " Lepidoptera Brj. 

 '< tannica." 



