314 Botanical Collections. 



Prunus, G. iv. 145, Prunus spinosa. 



Quercus, E. i. 17 ; G. ii. 16, Quercus Esctilus? so, perhaps, this maybe 

 reckoned, if Esculus be the true p&lj^ v , , , j 



Radii, G. ii. 86, Olea europcea, var. 'l^iO*J.UaO 



Kosa, G. iv. 119, Rosa damascena. 



Kubus, E. iii. 89, Rvhus frulicosus 9 but I suspect Virgil to have been a 

 better botanist than the moderns, and that he did not dis- 

 tinguish the Italian Brambles from each other. 



Sardoa herba, E. vii. 42, Ranunculus Philonotis, 



Salix, G. iv. 183, SaUx argentea. 



E. i. 35, V. 1 6, Salix viteUina. A similar remark may be made on 



Virgil's Salix, as upon Rubus. 

 Scilla, G. iii. 451, Scilla mariiima. 

 Serpyllum, E. ii. 11; G. iv. 31, Thymus SerpyUum. 

 Thymbra, G. iv. 31, Thymhra spicata. 

 Thymus, E. v. 77, Thymus vulgaris. 



E. vii. 37 ; G. iv. 270, Satureja capitata. 



Tilia, G. iv. 144 and 183, Tilia europcea. 

 Tribulus, G. i. 153, Centaur ea Cahitrapa. 



Vaccinia, E. ii. 18 and 50, Delphinium Ajacis. ; i 



Verbena, E. viii. 65, Verbena officinalis. 

 Viburnum. E. i. 25. Viburnum Lantana. 

 Vicia, G. i. 75, Vida sativa. 

 Viola, E. ii. 46, iv. 38, Matthiola incana. 

 Ulmus, E. i. 59 ; G. ii. 83, &c. Ulmus europcea. 



Ulva, E. viii. 87 ; G. iii. 175, Typha latifolia. .jr 



Volemus, G. ii. 88, Pyrus communis, var, " Quod volam man«s impleati**?^. 

 The passage, " Velleraque ut foliis depectunt tenuia Seres," G. ii. 121, 

 on comparison with Pliny, evidently alludes to the culture of mulberry trees 

 and silk worms by the Chinese. 



Notice of an Indian Palm, apparently identical with Hyphsene Coriacea Gaert. 

 — Lieutenant- Colonel Bowler lately communicated to the Linnaean Society 

 an account of a curious species of palm, apparently identical with the Doum 

 palm of Upper Egypt (Hypheene coriacea of Goertner,) found in the Cut- 

 cherry Compound, at Masulipatam, and also near Kongaram in the Teloo- 

 goo Compound, both in the government of Madras. The trees were 

 from eighteen to fifty feet high, with their stems generally twice forked, but 

 some were found with an elongated simple stem having as many as six 

 heads. The fronds are used by the natives for thatching, and the hard 

 fibrous nuts, when steeped in water and beaten, are made into brushes for 

 white-washing their houses. Colonel Bowler observes, " The Sunasies, 

 whenever they can procure them, carry the stalks of the fronds in their 

 bands, and impose upon the ignorant natives, by attributing to them many 

 surprising virtues, and pretending they cut them from a curious tree which 

 was in a large forest at an incalculable distance. 



" The inhabitants of Kongaram and the neighbouring hamlets look upon 

 this tree as the guardian of their jungle, and hold it in some degree of vene- 

 ration ; conceiving it has (as I am told its Sanscrit name Kulpa Vroochum* 

 implies) the power of fulfilling the desires and wishes of mankind, at least 

 such as from firmness of heart and morals have faith in its supposed 

 virtues," 



* A holy tree in the gardens of ludra. It is said in the Pooranas to have been found in 

 the ocean when Krishna churned it, and tliat it was given to Iiidra, telling him that it 

 would grant the wislies of all being?:. 



