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petalis angustis immaculatis, starainibus 8-12, seminibus quam in H. 

 guttato majoribus. 



" Hab. Anglesey, Mr. Brewer, Hudson. Holyhead mountain. Rev. 

 Mr. Williams, and also near Amlwch, Rev. H. Davies, W. 

 Wilson, Esq." 



Notice of the Naturalists' Almanack, for 1845.* 

 We learn from the advertisements that this useful little Almanack 

 for the coming year has been edited by Mr. Henry Doubleday, than 

 whom we have no naturalist more competent to the task ; and on the 

 present occasion he has accomplished his luidertaking in a manner 

 that fully bears out his previous reputation for pains-taking and accu- 

 rate observation. Mr. Doubleday's well-known predilection for birds 

 and insects, has, of course, led him to devote a great portion of the 

 space to these interesting classes ; but there are valuable notices of 

 plants scattered throughout the ' Naturalists' Calendar;' and p. 29 is 

 filled with a list of the dates, during four successive years, on which a 

 great number of plants came into flower at Epping. We should pre- 

 fer a portion of each year's Almanack being occupied by a complete 

 monograph of some small family of British plants or animals, since 

 such monographs give the work a far more enduring interest ; and ren- 

 der it a desideratum to naturalists, long after the year of its date has 

 expired. We have heard many commendatory observations on the 

 Almanack for 1844, on the ground of its containing Mr. Newsman's 

 descriptive list of the British Ferns ; and we believe it is still sought 

 for on this account, even at a time when its value, as a diary of 

 scientific meetings, and the usual almanack matter, has expired. 



On the Influence of the Mild Climate of Torquay on Flowering 

 Plants. By J. A. Walker, Esq., Lieut. H. P., 34th Regt. 



Nov. 1. I BEG to send a few fragments of bloom which still lingers, in 

 my sea-side garden, on the Privet, Dog-rose, and Gum Cistus. Of the 

 first there is a good deal : of the others, only a solitary blossom here 

 and there. In December, 1842, there was, up to the 10th or 12th of 

 the month, a Dahlia in very good bloom, within a few feet of the edge 



* Van Voorst's Naturalists' Pocket Almanacl, for 1845. John Van Voorst, 

 Paternoster Row. • 



