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This shrub is called Bayee by the Hill-Belooches, who make no use 
of it. Its young shoots aud buds are remarkably fragrant when 
bruised. In the cold season it yields a small quantity of a tasteless, 
inodorous, brittle gum, almost entirely soluble in water. It flowers in 
March and April, and its leaves and young shoots appear in April and 
ay. It isa native of Beloochistan and the hills which separate that 
province from Scinde ; probably also of Afghanistan, attaining its. 
southern limit about Kurrachee 
REFERENCE TO THE Fiounss. Tab. IX. Specimens in different 
states of leaf, flower, and fruit. Fig. 1, fertile flower ; f. 2, section of 
the same; f. 3, male flower; f. 4, section of fruit with two carpels ; 
f. 5, section of ditto with three carpels, (all magnified) ; f. 6, nut with 
its pulp, nat. size; f. 7, epicarp of the ripe fruit as it separates and 
leaves the nut with its pulp exposed (as in the previous figure), nat. size. 
Dr. Arnott hints at two sections of Balsamodendron, depending on 
sen relative depth of the calyx. The Googul has its calyx long and 
bular. The one just described has its calyx shallow, and this is es- 
ree observable in a section of the flower. Moreover its fruit differs 
in having two additional imperfect sutures, in which it agrees with B. 
Gileadense and B. Kaful, as we gather from Howe and with B. Berryi 
and Wighiti, as Dr. Wight kindly informs 
Reference to the figures, Tab. IX. codem in different states of 
flowers and fruit, —nat. size. 
Notes and Observations on the Botany, Weather, Sc., of the United 
States, made during a tour in that country in 1846 and 1847. By 
Wm. ARNOLD BromFIELD, M.D., F.L.S., 
(Continued from p. : 
The Chestnut, Castanea vesca, abounds about Ancaster, where the 
trees, though not of very large dimensions, looked perfectly healthy and 
vigorous. This valuable tree, which is not given in the Flora Borealis 
Americana as a native of British America, would appear to reach its 
polar limits nearly in the latitude of Niagara, or a little to the north- 
ward (lat. 44°) of the Falls, and in Canada to be confined to the 
vicinity of Lake Ontario, if not to this particular district; for though so 
plentiful around Hamilton, I am told it disappears entirely a little far- 
ther north, and is not found in the adjoining townships. I cannot dis- 
cover any character by which to distinguish the American from the 
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