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amateur botanists than those for whose especial benefit it was formed. 
prospectus at first circulated, and still adhered to, defines the objects aimed 
at to be mutual assistance in the study of British plants by organized ex- 
cursions, by the establishment of a herbarium, museum, and library, the in- 
terchange of specimens, the communication of papers, and such other means 
as from time to time might present themselves. "These objects are carried out 
racter. The substance of two of these on Euphorbia amygdaloides, and on 
Dioicous flowers, by Mr. W. G. Smith, was recently published in this Journal. 
A herbarium (phanerogamie and cryptogamic) has been commenced, the nu- 
cleus of a library of practical works (chiefly local floras) been collected, and 
the museum—if so grand a name can be applied to the collection of fruits 
and seeds of British plants—is in embryo. In the interchange of speci- 
furtherance of this object, the president (Mr. M. C. Cooke) will be enabled to 
render valuable assistance. The Society has been well advised in combining a 
2 close examination of common ones, as testified by such th 
alluded to, and others of a similar character. j 
, M. T. Caruel has published a ‘Florula di Montecristo’ (Milan, 1864), an 
island made famous by a much-read French novel, and now the property of an 
rials for this florula, containing 344 Phanerogamic plants and ferns. 
gathered on the island from a plant known among its aboriginal inhabitants as 
the Youpon, a shrub that, if not identical with, is at least possessed of many 
ponte of resemblance to that favourite of the South Americans, Paraguayan 
Maté,” What is the Yowpon? Ilex vomitoria or Ceanothus Americanus? 
