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perial gardens of that capital, and even in making occasional bota- 

 nical excursions into the Austrian and Styrian Alps. Besides the 

 works already noticed, during his stay in England he prepared the 

 greater part of the drawings of the first volume of Mr. Lambert's 

 work on the genus Pinus, and the plates of that work were chiefly 

 coloured by him. He also prepared a series of drawings of the spe- 

 cies of Digitalis, which have since been published by Dr. Lindley, in 

 his * Digitalium Monographia.' 



Mr. Bauer was seized with a severe illness in 1825, which termi- 

 nated in his death on the 17th of March 1826, having attained the 

 age of 66. 



Read, *' A Notice of a Plant which produces perfect Seeds with- 

 out any apparent action of Pollen on the Stigma." By Mr. John 

 Smith, A.L.S. 



The subject of the present notice belongs to the natural family of 

 Euphorbiacea, and has been cultivated for several years in the Royal 

 Botanic Garden at Kew, under the name of Sapium aquifolium. It 

 is a native of Moreton Bay, on the east coast of New Holland, where 

 it was discovered by Mr. Allan Cunningham, who sent three plants 

 of it to Kew in 1829. A short time after their introduction the 

 plants flowered, and they proving to be all females, they were na- 

 turally passed over as belonging to a dioecious plant, until Mr. 

 Smith's attention was particularly drawn to them by the fact of their 

 producing perfect seeds. They have annually flowered and matured 

 their seeds since, and notwithstanding the most diligent search and 

 constant attention no male flowers or any pollen-bearing organs have 

 been detected. Young plants have been raised at different times 

 from the seeds, and they bear so close a resemblance to their parents 

 that it is scarcely possible even to suspect the access of pollen from 

 any other plant. 



Mr. Smith considers the plant as the type of a new genus, which 

 he names Coelebogyne. It forms an irregularly branched, rigid, ever- 

 green shrub, of about three feet in height, with alternate, petiolate, 

 elliptical, mucronate, coriaceous leaves, having three large spinous 

 teeth on each side, and furnished with two small subulate persistent 

 stipules. The paper was accompanied by a young plant raised from 

 seed produced at Kew, and by a beautiful drawing of the parts of 

 fructification from the pencil of Mr. Francis Bauer. 



Read also, ** Descriptions of newly discovered Spiders.'* By John 

 Blackwall, Esq., F.L.S. 



This paper comprises descriptions of new species of Spiders, re- 

 cently discovered, and principally by the author himself, in the north 



