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they were first gathered by himself, and are the Neottia estivalis, Sinapis 
incana, Mercurialis ambigua, Atriplex rosea, and Anthrolobium ebracteatum : 
he states, that 760 flowering plants and ferns have been noticed in these 
islands, and that twenty of them have not as yet been gathered in Britain 
by her numerous practical botanists: Mr. B.is about to publish Primite 
Flore Sarnice, and solicits information on the subject. Mr. Walker, on re- 
suming his descrptions of the British Chalcidites, produces the characters of 
nine species, the Cirr......... cyrrhus, C. mycerinus, C. adalia, and three varie- 
ties, C. orithyia, with two varieties, C. tachos, C. atialus and ten varieties, C. 
agathocles with five varieties, C. judis and the C. ilithyia, which stands as the 
forty-fourth article on the list. Another addition to the Specimen of New 
Zealand Botany is contributed by Mr. Cunningham, and here he characte- 
rizes eleven species—the Quintinia serrata with an interesting foot-note, the 
Weinmannia fuchsioides, W. sylvicola, Leiospermum racemosa, Ackama rose- 
folia, Tilleea verticillaris, Mesembryanthemum australe, Tetragonia expansa, 
Passiflora tetrandra and the Sicyos anstralis: from the precision with which 
the different habitates of the plants are particularized by Mr. C. his catalogue 
will greatly facilitate the researches of future naturalists. Under the title 
of Information respecting Botanical Travellers, you find that Dr. Steudel 
is successfully prosecuting the objects of his mission in Abyssinia, where he 
has already collected 50,000 dried specimens of plants, consisting of 600 spe- 
cies, many of which are new: that Dr. Brunner has returned to Berne from 
the Cape de Verd islands with a collection of 600 species of plants which he 
offers to the attention of botanists at forty shillings a hundred: and that Mr. 
Gardner is proceeding prosperously and zealously in his investigation of the 
Brazilian botany. Seven concise Bibliographical Notices bring you to the 
proceedings of the Royal, Linnzean, Wernerian, and Zoological societies. For 
Miscellanies, you have two extracts from Couch’s Fauna of Cornwall—on 
the Larus jacksonii, a new species of gull, and on Cyclopterus coronatus, the 
coronated lump-fish, with sketches of the specific characters ;—an intima- 
tion of the complete failure of the French expedition of discovery to the 
South Polar Seas;—and a notice, by Prof: Hooker, of a very remarkable 
state of Viola /actea, the cream-coloured violet. Last on the list, stand the 
monthly meteorological observations and tables. 
No. XII.—This number of the Annals begins with Mr. Harvey’s descrip- 
tions of two new species of a new genus of South African plants belonging 
to the natural order Rhizantheze, with two illustrative plates: he suggests 
the term Mystropetalon for the appellation of the genus, from the spoon- 
shaped form of the segments of the perianth: the species are M. thomii and 
polemanri, and he gives distinct characters of these interesting plants. In 
Mr. Newman’s paper on the synonymy of Passandra, he characterises all 
tye old anda few new species.—P. sewstriati, P. columbus and P. fasciata ; 
Hectarthrum curtipes, H. yigas, H. brevifossum, H. trigeminum, H. heros, 
H. bistriatum, H. gemelliparum, H. semifuscum and H. rufipenne; Catogenus 
carinatus, C. castaneus, C. rufus, and C. puncticollis. Mr. Giraud’s observations 
on the existence of a third Tunic, together with certain other peculiarities, in 
the structure of Pollen, with a graphic illustration, exhibiting fourteen well- 
sketched figures. Mr. Thompson makes a valuable communication on the 
British species of the genus Monochirus; on a minute fish allied to the 
Ciliata glauca and Gadus argenteolus ; on the indentity of Trigla cucudus with 
