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our hands, and comprises the Myrtacee, Onagracee, Lythraracee, Cu- 
curbitacee, Passifforacee, Paronychiacee, Portulacee, Mesembryanthe- 
macee, Cactee, Crassulacee, Savifragacee, Umbellifere, and Ara- 
liacee. Amongst the new species we find,—Sedum farinosum (“ Erva 
Arroz"), S. fusiforme, S. dumosum, Ammi procerum, Bunium brevifo- 
lium, Bupleurum salicifolium, Ginanthe pteridifolia; Monizia edulis, 
Daucus neglectus, Torilis tenuifolia, T. obscura, and . T. brevipes. . Mr. 
Lowe does good service in clearing up the confusion existing in the 
synonymy of the Madeira and Canary Island. Cactee... We also. learn 
that the attempts lately made to cultivate the cochineal insect in Madeira 
have failed, mainly from the difficulty of preserving, or obtaining when 
lost, fresh young insects to restock the Cactus plant annually. ‘The 
author confirms Webb’s statement that the first introduction of the 
cochineal to the Canaries was strongly opposed by the country people, 
on the ground of its rendering the ** Tuneras" or Opuntia plants 
barren, and depriving them of their favourite “ figos,” the insipid 
fruit of these Cactuses, now seen occasionally at Covent Garden 
Market. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society offer the following prizes for 
the encouragement of the study of scientific botany amongst all elasses :—1. 
One silver and two bronze medals, for the three best colleetions of wild plants 
of each separate county of the United Kingdom, dried, mounted on paper, 
folio demy size, classified according to the natural system, and labelled with 
the name of the locality where found, and the date 
Not more than one of the medals can be 
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à; » that Dr. Lankester had resi ; ol 
Botany at South Kensing resigned the Examinership o 
he Herbarium, with the MSS. and drawings of the late Joseph Woods, 
Esq., author of the * Tourists Flora” have b 
Townsend, Esq. , eme the property of F. 
