H.^ Notices respecting Neva Books. 



of Mackenzie's River. By Mr. W. F. Wenzel. — Observa- 

 tions on some Species of the Genvis Vermiculum of Montagu. 

 By the Rev. Dr. Fleming. — Notes in regard to Marine Shells 

 found in the Line of the Ardrossan Canal. By Capt. Laskey. 



Memoir es de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris : tome 

 jiremier ; \re partie. Paris, Baudoin Freres, 1823, 4to. 



Preparing foi- Publication. 



Dendrologia Britannica-, or Trees and Shrubs that will live 

 in the open air of Britain throughout the year. A work use- 

 ful to }iroprietors and possessors of estates, in selecting sub- 

 jects for planting woods, parks and shrubberies ; and also to 

 persons who cultivate trees and shrubs for sale. By P. W. 

 Watson, of Cottingham, near Hull. 



The work will be accompanied with a critical preface, 

 tracing up the subject, and reviewing the principal works that 

 have appeared on it from the time of Evelyn, and containing 

 other matter relative to botanical science, with illustrative 

 diagrams, and particularly a carpologic concordance of the 

 terms and definitions used by Gartner, Mirbel, Richard, De- 

 candoUe, Desvaux and others, as applied to fruits and seeds. 



ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Mr. G. B. So-joerby's Genera oj" Recent and Fossil Shells. 



Nos. XVI. and XVII. of this work contains the following 

 genera: Unio, two plates; Conus, two plates ; Hyria; Calceola; 

 Cypraea, two plates ; Anodon, two plates ; Lima, Nucula. 

 Curtis' s Botanical Magazine. No. 437, 438. 



PI. 2406. Banksia latifolia, heretofore confounded with 

 serrata, a tree 30 feet high, but described by Mr. Brown as a 

 low shrub, plentiful in the marshes near Sidney, New South 

 Wales : supposed to have flowered for the first time in this 

 country last August, in the conservatory of E. Gray, Esq. — 

 Nerijic pulchella, "foliis glaucis, scapo bipedali, corolla subdif- 

 formi, pallide subrubescente, rubro striata, loculis circiter 8- 

 sperm is," sometimes confounded with humilis. — Scilla amcenula, 

 raised in the Chelsea garden from seeds sent under this name 

 by Mr. Otto, of the Berlin garden. Redoute has two figures 

 under the name amcena, of which this is supposed to be his 

 tab. 130. Itea virginica. — Agei'atum strictum " caule erecto 

 simplice scabro, foliis cordatis rugoso-venosis inasqualiter ser- 

 ratis, pedunculis coloratis:" raised from seeds sent from Ne- 

 paul. — Pitcairnia staminea, " foliis lineari-lanceolatis integerri- 

 mis, laciniis coroUse revolutis, staminibus corolla longioribus," 



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