1G8 Notices of Botanical Works, See. 



the author by Mr. Neill ; and this led him still more to consider the 

 plant as not belonging to the genus Baptisia, but rather to Thermopsis of 

 Mr. Brown. Mr. Lindley has been kind enough to inform us, that this 

 is the Podalyria sericea of Dr. Wallich's MSS. .; Anagyris indica of Roxb. 

 MSS. ; and probably of the same genus with Podalyria lupinoides, from 

 Dahuria ; and therefore belonging to the Thermopsis of Brown. Still, 

 Mr. Lindley, who has seen ripe fruit of our plant, is inclined to consider 

 it not generically distinct from Anagyris. t. 132. Chrysiphiala pauci- 

 flora. — " Floribus ante folia, perianthus laciniis erecto-patentibus, sta- 

 minibus suba?qualibus, corona brevi tubulosa, dentibus bifidis." Sent 

 to the Horticultural Society from Peru, by James Cowan, Esq. 



Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet for September, (No. 89.) 



Tab. 881. Lychnis Suecica. 882. Ericajlava. 883. Orobus coccineus. 

 884. Ribes lacustris. 885. Azalea sinensis. 886. Primula integrifolia. 

 887. Epidendrum anceps. 888. Aquilegia canadensis. 889. Asarum cana- 

 dense. 890. Gnidia imbricata. 



No. 90. Tab. 891. Thalktrum petaloideum. 892. Cytisus purpureas 

 893. Erica stellata. 894. Nerium coccineum. 895. Cypripedium pubescens. 

 896. Dianthus punctatus. 897. Lupinus Nootkatensis. 898. Monsonia 

 speciosa. 899. Erysimum lanceolatum. 900. Anemone pratensis. 



No. 91. Tab. 901. Arnica crenata. 902. Erica pendula. 903. Justi- 

 cia coccinea. 904. Conanthera bifolia. 905. Canna iridiflora. 906. Ccro- 

 pegia Africana. 907. Mahernia incisa. 908. Rhododendron myrtifoliuvi. 

 909. Acacia calamifolia. 910. Pachysandra procumbens. 



Greville's Scottish Cryptogamic Flora. 



We have only been hitherto deterred by the narrow limits of our 

 space from noticing periodically, the contents of Dr. Greville's Scottish 

 Cryptogamic Flora, and not from any insensibility to the value of his 

 work, or to the interest of the subjects which it contains. No branch of 

 the botany of this country required to be more illustrated than the fun- 

 gi, which occupy the greater portion of this publication ; and although 

 they are not calculated at once to strike and arrest our attention like so 

 many of the plants in the works mentioned immediately above; yet 

 when these productions come to be attentively examined, and their struc- 

 ture and mode of growth closely studied, we shall be led to conclude, 

 that no tribe of plants is more calculated to display the wisdom and pow- 

 er of the Almighty, than these little individuals. We know that by one 

 naturalist the fungi have been called the Vermes of the Vegetable Crea- 

 tion, by another the depurators and scavengers of Nature ; but he who 

 bestowed upon them the latter apparently sordid and opprobrious epi- 

 thet, has at the same time borne witness to their importance in the scale 

 of creation. " The wisdom of Providence,'' says Mr: Kirby,* " has 

 not only been attentive to provide against the atmosphere being over- 



* In his account of the genus Ammophila in the 4th vol. of the Linnoean Trans- 

 actions, p. 196. 



