NEW BOTANICAL AND FLORAL MAGAZINE. 



On the first of October, 1836, will be published, 



Under the patronage of. the Right Hon. the EARL of DARTMOUTH, (President of 

 the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society), the Right Hon. the EARL 

 f OUNTNORRIS, and other distinguished Patrons, 



No. II. OF THE 



BIRMINGHAM BOTANIC GARDEN; 



Or, MIDLAND FLORAL MAGAZINE, 



Containing accurate Delineations, with Botanical and popular Descriptions of Plants 

 cultivated in the Stove, the Green-house, or the open Garden, and remarkable either for 

 their beauty, their rarity, or the singularity of their structure. 



Conducted by G. B. KNOWLES, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.L.S., &c. (Corresponding Member of 



the Medico-Botanical Society, and Professor of Botaiiv in the Birmingham Roval 



School of Medicine) and FREDERIC WESTCOTT, Esq. Honorary Secrel 



taries of the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. 



Each Number will contain four highly finished and carefully coloured Plates, the drawings 

 for which will invariably be taken from nature expressly for this work, by artists of ac- 

 knowledged talent. 



The generic and specific characters are necessarily given in Latin, as the acknowledged 

 language of science in every part of the civilized world; these, however, are followed by 

 literal translations, for the accommodation of those who may be unacquainted with that 

 language. A popular and more detailed description of each plant is also added, accompa- 

 nied at the same time by remarks on its mode of culture, its native place of growth, the 

 period of its introduction, and its medicinal or other properties, 



The Work will be continued monthly, price 2s. 6d. per Number. 



London : Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co., Whittaker and Co., and John M. Knott ; 

 J. K. Johnstone and Co., Dublin ; W. Whyte and Co., Edinburgh ; John Smith and Son, 

 Glasgow. At Birmingham; John M. Knott, 95, High-street ; and at the Botanical Gar- 

 dens, Edgbaston. 



Published by JOHN and ARTHUR ARCH, Cornhill, London. 



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FUCI, or COLOURED FIGURES, with Descriptions in English and Latin, 

 of the Plants referred by Botanists to the GENUS FUCUS ; containing 

 258 accurate Representations of Marine Plants. British and Foreign. By 

 DAWSON TURNER, Esq., A.M., F.R.A., and L.S. In 4 vols. 4to. price 

 reduced to 14/. 14*. half-bound ; or, with the plates uncoloured, in 2 vols. 



% 7s. 



A few copies of this Work, in 4 vols, folio, with the figures more highly finished, price 

 21/. in boards. 



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ACCOUNT of a TOUR in NORMANDY, undertaken chiefly for the Pur- 

 pose of Investigating the Architectural Antiquities of the Duchy ; with 

 Obs rvations on its History, on the Country, and on its Inhabitants. By 

 DAWSON TURNER, Esq., F.R.S. &c. In 2 vols, royal 8vo. illustrated 

 with 50 copper-plates, besides wood-cuts, price 21. 2s. in boards. 



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A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of RECENT SHELLS, according to 

 the Linnaean Method, with particular attention to the Synonvmy. By 

 LEWIS WESTON DILLWYN, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. In 2 vols. 8vo. 

 price reduced to 1/. 5*. in boards. 



This Work contains a Catalogue of all the Shells in Gmelin's last Edition of Linnaeus's 

 Systema Naturae, others in Martini and Chemnitz's Historia Conchyliorum, and in the 

 Linnaean Transactions, &c. ; with References to the different Publications in which they 

 are figured, and a copious Index. 



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In 18mo. price 4s. in cloth. 

 LECTURES on the Means of Promoting and Preserving Health, delivered at 

 the Mechanics' Institute, Spitalfields, by THOMAS HODGKIN, M.D. 



