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elegant work, that we see no reason why it is repeated in this publication, 

 particularly as Mr. Lintlley's description is copied : moreover, it occupies 

 the space of two plates, which could have been devoted, with much more 

 advantage, to some other of the increasing number of unrecorded plants 

 abounding in the London gardens. 



PI. 659. Ancilcma sinica, a new plant from China, thus defined : A. caule 

 ramoso diffiiso ; foliis ligulatis, acuminatis, racemulis alternis subsenis su- 

 perne in panicula positis: staminibus tribus barbatis quorum uno castratoj 

 sterilibus tribus nudis. 



PI. 660. Pajisijiora pallida, an interesting plant of this elegant genus. 



PI. 661, Argyrcia cuneata, is a genus distinguished from Convolviihis and 

 Ipomcsa, " principally by an indehiscent seed-vessel with one-seeded cells." 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine. No. 429. 



To prevent a constant repetition of numbers, we shall in future notice 

 the plates in their regular series, merely giving the number of the first plate, 

 which is 2350, and represents Arthropodium cirratum Willd. beautifully 

 figured on a double plate. Thysanotus jtmceus, the same plant, unluckily, 

 as we have noticed above in the Register : from a comparison of the two 

 plates, it appears this has been made from a dwarf specimen. The dissec- 

 tions, however, in this are an advantage the other does not possess. 



Crimtm aquaticum, a plant, brought from Southern Africa by Mr. Biu"- 

 chell, which Mr. Herbert has here described. Like Amaryllis revoluta and 

 insignis, it is not, probably, a distinct species from Am. ornata, but Mr. H. is 

 obliged, by the principles he has laid down in defining the genera of Amaryl- 

 lideae, to propose it as a genus possibly distinct from any other. Some bo- 

 tanists will consider this as an additional proof that he is wrong in what he 

 has done in his proposed reformation of the Order ; and will question whe- 

 ther his new species of Crimtm and Amaryllis be any more distinct than the 

 gardeners' varieties of Tulipa, Geranium, &c. Instead of a concise specific 

 character (after the excellent example of Linnieus) we have a detailed de- 

 scription too long for us to copy. 



Alstroemeria pulchella, Linn., from China. Passiflora Iwnata ; we strongly 

 suspect the leaf represented in outline, as a variety, is, in fact, a very distinct 

 species ; as, from native specimens in our Herbarium, the flowers are stated 

 to be very lai'ge and white. Crinum arenarium; given as another new addi- 

 tion to this genus, but we doubt whether it be specifically different from 

 Cr. asiaticum : we must protest against the novel mode Mr. Herbert has 

 here introduced of making descriptions and even specific characters of plants 

 from measurement; because until all the plants of one species can be made 

 to grow of one size, such measurements will only suit the individual sample 

 from which they have been taken. Mr. Herbert is a botanist of ability, and 

 we hope he will give this subject further consideration. 



Swaitison's Zoological Illustrations. No. 25. 

 This number commences the third volume of this beautifully executed 

 work. Plate 120 represents Ampullaria corrugata, and the figures and de- 

 scriptions sufficiently point it out as distinct from A. globosa, figured on the 

 plate of the 2d volume ; it is thus defined : — A. testa globosa, corrugata, 

 olivacea ; spirae prominentes, acutsc, anfractibns ventricosis ; apertiu-ae niar- 

 gine crasso, fulvo, sulcato ; umbilico parvo, juxta labii interioris mediam 

 posito ; operculo testaceo. Mr. S. observes, that Mr. B. Sowerby has mis- 

 taken this shell for the Amj). rugosa of Lam., which has a thin, and not a 

 thick and reflected, margin round the aperture.— Plate 121: This is the 

 most beautiful plate yet given in the work, and represents a new and su- 

 perbly coloured Cree|)er, belonging to the African genus Cinnyris, but er- 

 roneously placed by Dr. Hor.sfield among the Nectarinioe, which, Mr. S. 

 remarks, are all American birds. C. Javanica, supra nitide purpureo-aerata, 



subtus. 



