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ANALYSIS OF PERIODICAL WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



Curtis's British Entomology. 

 No. 11, contains the following subjects : 



PI. 43. exhibits figures of Scolytus destructor, a species of tree-feeding 

 insects, which threatens destruction to the elms in and about London; an 

 account of its ravages and the probable consequences first appeared in our 

 Journal for Oct. 1 823. Vol. Ixii. p. 252. — PI. 44. Clerus alvearius, a beautiful 

 species, well known upon the continent, but new to this country. We 

 have heard since this figure was published, that another specimen of it has 

 been taken near Dorking in Surry, much larger than that figured in the plate. 

 — PI. 45. Cucullia Asteris. This beautiful and rare shark moth has been 

 bred by Mr. Blunt, from caterpillars taken near Town : figures of this insect 

 with its larva have never before appeared in any British work. — PI. 46. 

 Asilus germanicus. A very striking species of this curious genus, never 

 before recorded as British : the only specimens we know of are preserved 

 in our National Museum. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine. No. 453. 



PI. 251 7. Aloe africana,/i angustior. This species had never heretofore been 

 figured in flower; nor had Mr. Haworth seen it in flower when he published 

 his Arrangement of the genus. Cotyledon dccussata, the papillaris of Ha- 

 worth, but not of Thunberg. — Lobelia Rhizophyta. — Euphorbia anacantha. 

 — Schizanthus porrigens ; " caule diffuso, racemis paniculatis: pedicellis di- 

 varicatissimis." — Crinum confertum: from the N.W. coast of Australia. 



TJie Botanical Register. No. 216. 

 PI. 832. Brassia caudata; " sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis : inferi- 

 oribus caudatis, labello acuminato, bulbo ancipite :" an Orchideous plant 

 from theWest Indies, belonging to the section Epidendrea. — hicotiana nana; 

 " 2 — 3 uncialis, foliis lanceolatis pilosis : radicalibus quam flores solitarii 

 longioribus, corolla calyce longiore: laciniis obtusis." Raised by the Horticul- 

 tural Society from seed from the Rocky Mountains of North America, and 

 stated to be that from which the Indians prepare the finest of their tobacco, 

 but not to have been noticed in the works of American botanists. — Melodinus 

 monogynus ; " foliis ovali-lanceolatis acuminatis, panicula glaberrima:" in 

 the flortus Bengalensis of Dr. Carey it is said to be a climbing shrub, native 

 of Sylhet, and flowering at Calcutta in March and April. — Scabiosa gramini- 

 folia: the characters of the genus and species are given from Dr. Coulter's 

 recent Monograph of the Natural Order of Dipsacea, which receives me- 

 rited commendation.— Gualteria rtifa, Decandolle's Prodromus, t.93, where 

 22 species of this interesting genus are enumerated, of which not one was 

 known to Linnxus: — sent to the Horticultural Society from China by 

 Mr. Potts. — Pedilanthus Tilhymahndes, a genus of Necker retained by 

 A. de Jussieu, scarcely distinguishable from Euphorbia, except by the very 

 curious and peculiar form of the involucrum. — He/iophi/a digitata. — Acacia 

 calmiiij'ulitt : "petiolis filiforniibus longissiniis cernuis, pedunculis solitariis 

 pctiolo multotics brevioribus, leguminibus arcuatis articulatis corrugatis:" 

 an apparently undescribed species, brought from the south-west interior of 

 New Holland, under the name of the Bodkin-leaved Acacia. 



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