on "Oology and Botany. 225 



addition to this genus first described by Mr. Lambert in the 

 Ltnn. Trans. The species we apprehend will be still further 

 increased : our own herbarium contains four or five others 

 hitherto unrecorded by any botanist. 



PL 654. Actinoius Helianthi : a New Holland plant, the 

 Eriocalia major of Exotic Botany, tab. 78. 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine. No. 428. 



PI. 2342. Argemone albijiora, placed as a variety of mexi* 

 cana by M. De CandoUe ; but considered by Horneman and 

 Dr. Sims as a distinct species, which idea is most probably 

 correct. 



The next plate represents ^ very extraordinary, rare, and 

 interesting plant, the Stapelia tuberosa of Meerburg ; but which 

 Mr. Brown considers as formuig a distinct genus, under the 

 name of Brachystelma tuberosa; assigning to it these characters: 

 — Asclepiadccs. Corolla campanulata, sinubus angulatis. Co- 

 lumna inclusa. Corona monophylla, 5-fida : lobis antheris 

 oppositis, dorso simplicibus. Antherae absque membrana 

 apiculari. Massee pollinis erectae, basi insertae. — Inhabits the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



PI. 2344. The orange variety of Papaver nudicaule, from 

 Dahuria: following this, is given Orobus hirsutus, from the 

 Levant. 



PI. 2346 and 7. Lysimachia Euphemer-um, Phyteuma sjnca- 

 tum ; two plants long known to botanists; 



PI. 2348, Erica mntabilis of Hortus Kevvensis: and PI. 2349, 

 Anchusa Barrelieri, completes this nimiber. We must beg 

 leave to suggest the great improvement and additional value 

 which would result to this work, if botanical dissections were 

 introduced less sparingly. Of the eight plates in this number, 

 only one contains these illustrating outlines, so essential, not 

 only to the cxj)erienced botanist, but to the student. Since 

 botanical science has inidergone so many changes, and in- 

 numerable genera formed, which a few years back were quite 

 unknown, every assistance of this kind l)ecomes doubly neces- 

 sary to the elucidation of the subject. 



Gcianiacccc. No. 33. 



Not a single genuine species of these metamorphosed plants 

 is contained in this month's number. 



Ijoddigr^ Botanical Cabinet. Part Q5. 



Several interesting and singular i)lants occur in this number; 

 but, in the absence t)f sjiecilic cliaracters or synonyms, we cati 

 only notice tliein by the names here given. Aristolochia tO^ 

 mnitosa : — under this subject are the following well applied 



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