230 Botany.—The Bod. Constrictor. 
Chichester, where the fruit was of a size and perfection that he 
-had never seen surpassed. 
Mr. Phillips admits that the golden pippin is a more delicate 
tree than many other varieties, but by no means so much soas is 
generally supposed, and it only requires, as it deserves, the most 
genial situation of the orchard to render it as prolife as formerly. 
About the year 1685 Lord Clarendon had, at his seat at Swal- 
lowfield, Berks, an orchard of 1000 golden and other cider pip- 
pins. 
Pippins are said to take their names from the small spots or 
pips that usually appear on the sides of ose kinds of apples, and 
-which is no indication of decay. 
BOTANY. ; 
On Christmas-day the following plants, selected from many 
others, were in flower in the open ground at the Botanic Gar- 
den of Oxford, viz.:—1. Polycarpon tetraphyllum.—2. Scabi- 
osa atropurpurea.—3. Cerinthe minor.—4. Symphytum Orien- 
tale-—5. Borago officinalis.—6. Echium violaceum, —7. Pri- 
mula vulgaris,—8. Primula Auricula.—9. Campanula patula. — 
10. Campanula Rapunculoides.—11. Lonicera implexa.—12. 
‘Solanum tomentosum,.—13. Solanum nigrum.—14. Vinea major. 
—15. Sanseviera sessilifioran—16. Hydrangea hortensis.—17. 
Dianthus Deltoides.—18. Dianthus Carthusianorum.—l9. Re- 
seda odorata.— 20). Reseda alba.—21. Papaver Cambricum.—22. 
‘Delphinium Consolida.—23. Anemone Hepatica.—24. Anemone 
coronaria. —25, Alyssum maritimum.—26. Mathiola incana.— 
27. Erodium moschatum.—28. Erodium Hymenodes.—29. Pe- 
largonium Grossularioides.—30. Fumaria luteax—31. Fumaria 
spicata —32, Arnopogon Dalechampii—d33. Cnicus Eristhales. 
—34. Gnaphalium feetidum.—30. Elichrysum bracteatum.—36. 
Erigeron acre.—37. Tussilago fragrans.—38. Senecio elegans. — 
39. Mercutialis annua,—40. Parietaria officinalis. 
THE BOA CONSTRICTOR SEEN IN THE ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. 
A most singular circumstance occurred last week in the Cha- 
‘raib country, when some negroes, who were working near Sandy 
Bay, discovered an immense serpent, hitherto wholly unknown 
‘in any of these islands, and which was shot through the head by 
one of the party. It is supposed to be a species of Boa so com- 
‘mon on the neighbouring continent, but in what way it reached — 
the shores of St. Vincent is quite unknown. Its entire length 
was between fourteen and fifteen feet, the circumference of the 
body between three and four feet. When first seen it was lying in 
a coil, but rdised itself on being roused.— Royal Gazelle and Ba- 
hama Advertizer, August 1821.. ais 
EARTHQUAKES. 
