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magnified. Fig. 8, Drupe, with part of the fleshy coat 

 removed. Fig. 9, Section of the nut, to show the albumen. 

 Fig. 10, Transverse section of the albumen. Fig. 11, Em- 

 bryo. Fig. 12, Portion of the testa, with its prickles 

 within : — all more or less magnified, except figs. 1, 5, 

 and 6. 



[To be continued.] 



SKETCH OF A SHORT BOTANICAL EXCURSION 



IN JAMAICA. 

 By James Macfadyen, M. D. 



There are few works on Natural History that have done 

 more to render the science attractive and have been more 

 generally read, than the Natural History of Selbourne. 

 Calculated to excite a similar interest, are the short accounts 

 which have been given of excursions, made with a view of 

 gratifying a taste for this department of science. The nar- 

 rator is, in this manner, enabled to present us with a series 

 of simple facts; blending with the common-place matter 

 of his journal, notices of what appear to him novel or remark- 

 able in the productions of the district through which he 

 has passed. In reading such, we, in a manner, become his 

 companions, — mark every striking object that meets him in 

 his path, and sympathize in the pleasure of contemplating 

 each beautiful feature, or unusual phenomenon. Under im- 

 pressions such as these, I have been led to draw up the follow- 

 ing account of a little excursion, made in the neighbourhood 

 of Spanish-Town. I shall, by this means, be enabled to 

 point out the localities of several of the rarer plants, to 

 notice the influence of soil and climate, and to convey an 

 idea of the vegetation of the district, in a clearer manner 

 than could otherwise be effected. 



In the morning of Monday, the 22d December, 1829, I 

 left Spanish-Town. My road lay towards St. John's, the 

 hills of which, marking the boundary of the two parishes, rose 



