Mr. Lindley on a new Genus of Plants, 38S 



its ovarium which exhibits the greatest instance of reduction 

 of ovula yet known in the order, and its dispermous capsule, 

 "with oblong cortcave seeds, readily and essentially distinguish it 

 f'^ihtivei therefore, named it after its indefatigable discoverer, 

 whose active and successful researches in its native country, 

 richly entitle him to the distinction. 

 >h*i(ffoc^< DOUGLASIA. 



^AT, OnD. Primulacece i inter Primulam et Androsacen. 

 Y^^CHTyr obconicus, angulatus, 5-<lentatus. Corolla infundibularif?, tubo ven- 

 bVre firicoso, limbo piano 5-partito, fauce callo lineari sub utroque sinu. Ovarium 

 i^^^ mjiloculare placentft, centrali libera pedicellata fungilliformi, marginc 5-den- 

 tato ; ovula 5 dentibus placentae opposita, Capaula vestita, unilocularis, 

 iUVfT ,5:v;jvis. iSwn-'/fa duo concava scrobiculata. — Cb^s^qs suffruticulosus (Ame- 

 )o rftl'licsD borealis), foliis indivisis, pube rigiddramosA, floribus axillaribus soli* 

 ,Jt, n ' tariit, 



i Sp. 1, Douglasia nivalis. 

 jh^n f if !^fc r ' ' ■ — — 



A Description of the Aurora Borealis seen in London on the 

 'Evening and Night of the 25^/t of September, 1827 ; with 

 "^^Critical Remarks upon other Descriptions of the same, and 

 ^^ previous Appearances of the Meteor, both in the Northern and 

 *W^ Southern Hemispheres. By E. A. Kendall, Esq., F.S.A, 



On^ the evening and night of the 25th of September last, the 

 horizon of the metropolis, toward the north, and toward the 

 north-west and the north-east, exhibited a remarkable display 

 of the meteor Or phenomenon called, after the example of the 

 Italian philosopher Gassendi, Aurora Borealis. 



The weather, for many days preceding, had been mild, 

 with alternate sunshine, clouds, and showers. The wind had 

 been generally in the west and south-west quarters ; though 

 on the 18th and 19th it was in the north-west, and on the 

 20th in the north-east. The barometer, at three o'clock in 

 the afternoon, had stood at from 30° 40' to 30° 20', to which 

 latter height it had descended on the 20th ; and, from that 

 day to the 25th, it had remained at 29° 90' and 29° 75'. The 

 thermometer, at the same hour, between the 14th and the 

 20th, had ranged between 65° 6' and 59° Z ; and it stood, on 

 the 25th, at 59° 6', with the wind in the south-west. The 

 sky, toward the zenith, on the evening of that day, was par- 



