192 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
We have received another part of Key’s ‘Flora of Devon and Cornwall, 
containing Balsaminacee to Umbellifere ;. a Cup for private circulation 
nation of the Agavee, NI rt the , German war, and now sends us a 
1 ‘oo T S 1 
Gartenzeitung." From this we learn that there are now known 134 species of 
e, 13 of Sd and 8 of Beschorneria. > 
EDINBURGH BOTANICAL SOCIETY, April 9th.—Prof. Balfour in the chair. 
The following ditiones were read :—1. On the Genus Lophiostoma of 
British Fungi. By M. C. Cooke, Esq.—2. On the British Species of Delphi- 
nium. B Dr. W. R. M*Nab. Dr. M*Nab stated that while EROR e the 
that there were three instead of two (D. Consolida and D. A Pens British spe- 
ini n 
1 s r. rt B nted and made som 
marks on various articles which he had bronght t from Tenn ver's Tslan 
and a 
the economie uses of Comifere, ete. Considering the vari ied uses 
ija gigan it mi 
A i 
western Indians. ark is woven into mats Gebwuidoved into lozenge- 
shaped M and borden: with bark of a darker nt stained by steeping it 
in a mixture of oil, charco oal, and water. These mats are used in a variety of 
aboriginal modes of existence, ge Jei manufacture i is a marke d feature in their 
he bark t woven into blankets and cloaks, 
and used for gun- wad ing. The w vo splits a sety fhe forms ea rds for their 
Psi and the trunks are hollowed out into their beautiful canoes. The twigs 
of the 
trees in North-west America, and ought to be extensively planted 3 in England. 
Mr. Brown also exhibited and described a large series s drawings and photo- 
graphs, illustrative of the forests and forest-t Var the same region including 
number of views of Sequoia kie prem Seen (Hatingtonia gigantea, Lind- 
ley) ; ; Thuja gigantea, Nutt. ; es Men ougl. Bridgesii, Kell. ; 
T ames Dougl.; Pinte paar Do im, ; din ‘Down "Lindley ; r 
. 4 a), .$ Pi j 
Nutt.; we Henryana, R. Br. ms.; Cactu 
virens, etc. s 99 antea ; “Sequoia 
