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interesting to British botanists only in so far as they concern them- 

 selves with general Botany also. The subjoined enumeration of the 

 articles from the two volumes for 1847 will show this to be the case. 



Vol. 19, or Nos. 123 to 129. "A Supplement to 'A Synopsis of 

 the British Rubi,'" by Charles C. Babington. " On the Development 

 of the Lycopodiaeeae;" translated from Muller's paper in the ' Bota- 

 nische Zeitung.' " Achillea tanacetifolia {All.) ; its Discovery in 

 England by Mr. John Hardy." " A Note on the Chinese Indigo," 

 by Fortune ; copied from the 'Journal of the Horticultural Society.' 

 " On a Second Form of Fructification in Peysonnellia Squamaria," by 

 C. Montagne, in a letter to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley. " Comparison 

 of the Periods of Flowering of certain Plants in the early Spring of 

 1846, in the Botanic Garden of Belfast and the Jardin des Plantes, 

 at Paris," by William Thompson, Esq. "Notice of a new species of 

 Dawsonia," by Dr. Greville. "Note on the Tea Plant of China;" 

 copied from Fortune's China. Account of some " Monstrous Roses ;" 

 copied from a newspaper. 



Vol. 20, or Nos. 130 to 136. "On Conjugation in the Diatoma- 

 ceae," by Mr. G. H. Thwaites. " Notice of Plants collected in Ca- 

 nada," by Dr. P. W. Maclagan. "List of Plants gathered in Iceland," 

 by Mr. C. C. Babington. " On the Power of the Living Plant to re- 

 strain the Evaporation of the Cell-Sap ; " translated from a paper by 

 Mohl in the ' Botanische Zeitung.' " On the Relative Duration of the 

 Power to Germinate in Seeds belonging to different Families;" trans- 

 lated from a paper by Alph. De Candolle, in the ' Annales des Sci- 

 ences.' "On the Parasitical Nature of the Rhinanthaceae;" translation 

 of Decaisne's paper in the ' Comptes Rendus.' " Observations by L. 

 C. Treviranus, on the Structure of the Fruit of Cruciferae;" translated 

 from the ' Botanische Zeitung.' " Description of two new Mosses 

 from Jamaica," by William Wilson, Esq. " Diagnostic Characters of 

 five new species of Cryptogamic Plants from Jamaica," by Dr. 

 Thomas Taylor. " Description of some Grasses and Sedges from 

 the East Coast of Demerara," by Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



An article which describes plants not previously on record as na- 

 tives of Britain should be the first to challenge the attention of those 

 interested in British Botany. But we fear that the discovery of "new 

 British Rubi " is so easily within the reach of any botanist who will 

 carry home individual specimens to be described as such, that even 

 novelty here may have only feeble attraction ; unless it be for those 

 half-dozen ardent and able botanists who have latterly devoted their 

 attention to these proteiform pests of our hedgerows. 



