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like particularly the mixture by Ginelin of the Zcos- 
andria and Polyandria; the attachment of the sta- 
mina to the calyx or the receptacle furnishing a 
striking mark of distinction. Francesco would 
inform you that I arrived very ill, with a bilious 
fever and colic, at Constantinople :as soon as my 
health permitted me I visited the shores of the 
Bosphorus, the woods of Belgrade, and the sands 
of Domusderi on the Black Sea. I have noticed 
near eight hundred plants about Byzantium, and 
have got seeds of Daphne pontica and Convolvulus 
persicus, two good plants for our garden. I know 
not why Lpimedium is termed alpinum; it is one 
of the most common plants in the woods of Bel- 
grade, which are scarcely mountainous, much less 
alpine. The custom of setting fire to the woods in 
this country, to burn the brush-wood to give the 
grass room to grow, and furnish it with a manure 
from the ashes, is very unfriendly to the researches 
of the Cryptogamist. Boletus lucidus was almost 
the only Fungus I noticed; this is Forskal’s B. 
marginals ; his Salvia, now in full flower, is a most 
ornamental plant. Rosa centifolia grows wild 
there ; and the flowers of the vine, which mixes with 
the Smz/ar and twines round the chesnut, have a 
fragrant delicate odour beyond any flower I recol- 
lect. The shores of the Bosphorus are very poor 
in Fuci, nor are they rich in Zestacea. I have col- 
lected about fifty sorts of fish, with their modern 
Greek names. The genus Ladrus is rich in spe- 
cles, varying with many colours. Julus (omnium 
Jormosissimus) is often brought to market ; its fla- 
vour inferior to most of the fish brought to table. 
