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r. Salvia bicolor, a native of Algiers and Motecco, first correctly described by Desfontaines, 
whose name (we cbserved it with agreeable surprize) Mr. S, hasleft unchanged. The generic 
character and description ere drawn up with great care and precision. _ But why is Jacquin’s 
excellent figure of this sage in the Hortus Scloobrunnensis left unnoticed in the synonymy ? 
The third plant, Podalyria o/@folia; a native of the Cape of Good Hope, is, in Mr. Salis- 
bury’s opinion, easily distinguished from all the other species by the form of the leaves and 
the absence of pubescence on their npper surface. Buta look casr into the Species Plantarum 
im the neighbourhood of Podalyria birsuta, to which his plant bears great affinity, would have 
pointed out the very next species, Podalyria (Sophera) buxifolia of Retzius, as the plant here 
described: for a new one. 
Botanica MAcazinx. Mr. Gawler’s monthly contingent for the Jast number con- 
sistsin Cyrtanthus obliguws, considered by Liongys as a Crinum, and -by L’Heritier as an Ama- 
ryllis. As Cyrtanthus differs from both only from having the tube of the corolla longer, 
and consequently its lacinig shorter, these genera can scarcely depend on as much a the 
habit to be kept distinct from each other. Ornithogalum is a perplexing genus of the same 
kind: ©. lacteum, the milk-white Star of Bethiehem, figured in the next plate, costing its 
describer no less than half a hundred long words of differentia specifica, to distinguish it from 
others of its congeners. Both the figure and ietter-press of Tulipa gesreriana merit great 
praise. ‘Fhe latter contains several corrigenda and addenda respecting Tulipa Breyniana, é&c. 
It is really a matter of regret that there no longer exists a publication exclusively devoted to 
learned botanical disquisitions of this kind, which, as they cannot possibly be acceptable to 
all <* Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners,” however desirous these may be to become scienti- 
fically acquainted with the plants they cultivate, appear to be rather misplaced in the work 
under consideration. 
Browallia demissa, cultivated in our gardens before e/ata, appears to have been long lost in 
this country before it was reintroduced by Mr. Vere. It is well characterized by Dr. Sims: 
the chief distinction seems to be in the peduncles being al] solitary in the axils of the 
leaves ; while those of e/ata are in. part collected in a kind of terminal corymb. 
Goodenia tenella of Andrews, the Velleia trinervis of Labillardiére, from New Holland, 
keeps as it were the midway between the above neafly related genera. In habit it is a Velleia, 
of which however it has not exactly the calyx ; but on the other hand this part is not adnate 
as it should be in Goodenia; a circumstance, indeed, of no great moment in the natural or- 
der of Campanulacee. But there appears to be other peculiarities which may possibly heres 
after elevate this plant to the rank of a distinct, intermediate genus. ; 
Cercis Siliguastium. Dr. Sims might have added to his interesting account of this tree, 
that it-is with the Turks, what to the ancient Romans was the Cypress ; what to same other 
eastern nations is the Weeping Willow, and to the inhabitants. of the South Sea Islands the : 
Casuarina—the emblem of sorrow and the tree of cemeteries. The value of the very goods, | 
figure here given might also have been.enhanced by the addition of oneof the beautitut 
crimson pods’ that succeed the blush coloured flowers. , Byes 
’ The varnished Heath, Erica resinesa, the E. Vernix of the Gardeners, comes nearest to 
ardens of Andrews, considering the difficulty with which the brilliant varnish of the corolla 
cai be imitated by the artist, the figure of this handsome. heath is very. well executed. 
» An intelligent correspondent obseryes, that, after the excessive rains that have ofilate: 
fallen, if the weather should be warm, an unusual number of Fungi may be expected this 
autumn; and as Dr. Smith’s fourth volume of his Flora Britannica, which will contain the» 
Fungi, is not yet, as we suppose, in the press, nor the second volume. of the new edition of: 
Dr. Huil’s Synopsis, many valuable additions may be made to these works, if the general at~ 
tention of botanists should be directed to this tribe, Eyen those wha hawe ng scientific kaow - 
ledge of mushrooms, but amuse themselves with drawing, may, by. securing, representations. 
of these very fugacious vegetables, afford no little assistance. The lawn in the front of the 
house, or the walk through the adjoining wood, may perhaps afford no incansiderable crop. 
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MONTELY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
‘HE harvest has now been fully secured in almost every part. of the kingdom, and nothing. 
: scarcely remainsout, except a few beans in the njose northetn districts, which will sooa, 
be housed. yi heel 
In threshing out, the oats and barleys turn out very favourably, in mest of the. northern 
- eounties.; but the wheats in some places are found rather light, and not to, yield so, well, hay- 
_ ing been affected with the mildew, which did not fully show itself before they. were.cur, 
A great breadth of Jand has this year been prepared for wheat, in different, parte.of- the, 
Island, and. even.in the northern counties much of this grain is already put into the ground, 
inthe most favourable circumstances. “Ihe advantage of carly sowing in these districts, 
begin now to be better understood, 
The 
