350 OUTLINES OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 
coides, Gnaphalium americanum. In a continuation of Drs. Wight and_Ar- 
nott’s illustrations of Indian botany, the Acalypha ciliata is largely charac- 
terized and beautifully figured. Mr. Haliday particularizes the new British 
insects indicated in Mr. Curtis’s “Guide.” Among these are two coleopters 
—the Calanthus nubigena and Omaseus tetricus. The hymenopters are forty- 
nine in number—Ichneumon phaleratus, Tryphon hemosternus, T. curtisii, T- 
aurifluus, T. pheorrheus, Exochus antiquus, E. lictor, E. pectoralis, E. talpa, 
Periope auscultator, Cryptus atricilla, C. fulgurans, C. olerum, C. sylvarum, C- 
complanatus, C. arenarius, C. fulvicornis, C. cruentatus, C. varius, C. pretor, C. 
comes, ©. socius, C. paganus, Pimpla senator, P. phenica, P. madida, P. degener, 
Bassus serricornis, B. laricis, Porizon linguarius, Atractodes incessor, A. dio- 
neus, A. scrutator, A. vestalis, A. gravidus, A. albo-vinctus, A. arator, A. salicis» 
B. evilis, A. croceicornis, A. bicolor, A. piceicornis, A .:fumatus, A. cultellator, A. 
citator, A. properator, Lampronota fracticornis, L. crenicornis, and L. denticornis. 
Mr. H. proposes to indicate the British species in the Cyniphide, Proctotru- 
pide, Diapriadee, and Ceraphronidze, in a separate memoir on those families. 
Professor Ehrenberg’s communication, respecting fossil and recent Infusoria, 
is accompanied with three ideal figures of the Loxodes dursaria, in various 
states of the extension of the alimentary canal. In an additional portion of 
his specimen of the botany of the New Zealand islands, Mr. Cunningham 
describes the characters and habitates of Scorzonera scapigera, Sonchus olera- 
ceus, Picris hieracioides, P. attenuata, Shawia paniculata, Solidago arborescens, 
Lagenophora fosteri, L. Janata, Aster helosericeus, A. coriaceus, Haxtonia fur- 
furacea, Vittaclinia australis, Bidens pilosa, Cotula coronopifolia, Myriogyne 
minuta, Soliva tenella, Craspedia uniflora, Cassinia leptophylla, Ozothamnus 
pinifolia, Helichrysum bellidioides, Gnaphalium Jutco-album, G. simplex, G. 
lanatum, G. involucratum, G. keriense, G. trinerve, Arnica operina, Senecio 
lautus, S. australis, 8. neglectus, 8. argutus, 8. quadridentata, 8. hispidulus, Bra- 
chyglottis repanda, B. rotundifolia, and B. rani, which makes the 465th article 
in Mr. C.’s curious and interesting catalogue, Four “ bibliographical no- 
tices” bring you to the “ proceedings of learned societies.” At the Edinburgh 
“ Botanical,” papers were read by Mr. Forbes on the Primulz, where he 
contends that there are only two species, the P. acaulis and P. veris, the P. 
elatior being “not only not a hybrid, but a non-existence:” by Professor 
Christison on the preservation of fruits and botanical specimens in the moist 
state; and, after numerous experiments made for a series of years, he con- 
cludes that no fluid preserves both the consistence and colour of fruits, 
leaves, and flowers, so well as a concentrated solution of common salt; by 
Mr. Macaulay on the influence of vegetation on the composition of the at- 
mosphere, evincing experimentally that different natural families produce 
such effects in different degrees: by Mr. Carpenter, containing a general 
view of the function of reproduction in vegetables, and showing that the re- 
productive system can be traced with increasing complexity, but without 
alteration of its essential characters, from the lowest cryptogamic tribe to the 
ing numbers in the several sets, with a view to identifying them when published.” With 
a kind and just regard for Mr. S.’s interests, as his losses have been very severe, owing 
chiefly to repeated attacks of fever, Mr. B. states that several sets of five hundred each 
remain undisposed of ; and we cordially join with him in recommending them to the fa- 
vourable consideration of naturalists. 
