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anthers brown, attached by their backs, bilocular, each cell depressetl in 

 the middle as by a longitudinal suture, but bursting by a pore at its up- 

 per extremity ; pollen yellow. Stigma red-brown, capitate, 5-lobed, 

 lobes depressed. Style round, red, glabrous, longer than the stamens, 

 once or twice kneed. Germen green, thickly covered with yellow scales, 

 similar to those on the calyx, conical, obscurely 5-lobed, ciliated round 

 the base of the style, 5-celled ; placentae linear, extending to the parie- 

 tes, covered with innumerable ovules. 

 The enterprize of Mr Cunningham has been rewarded by having first in 

 Britain brought into flower Andromeda hypnoides and Jihododertdron lap- 

 ponicum. They are still under the same hand-glass in the nursery at 

 Comely Bank, near Edinburgh. This ])lant, as well as the other, was 

 brought from Canada by Mr Blair in 1825. It flowered in July. 



Celestial Phenomena J'rom October 1. 1830 to January 1. 1831, 

 calculated for the Meridian of Edinburgh, Mean Time. 

 By INIr Geouge Innes, Astronomical Calculator, Aber- 

 deen. 



The times are inserted according to the Civil reckoning, the day beginning at midnight. 

 — The Conjunctions of the Moon with the Stars are given in Rii;ht Ascension. 



