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Litevaturae Botanicae ;' and Fresenius's ' Contributions to Mycology.' 

 Then follow the contents, without comment, of the ' Annals of Natural 

 History,' ' Hooker's Journal of Botany,' ' The Phytologist,' ' Schlech- 

 tendal's Linnsea,' ' Botanische Zeitung,' and ' The Flora.' Pro- 

 ceedings of Societies : Botanical Society of Edinburgh ; Botanical 

 Society of London. Records of Localities : Hypericum calycinum 

 three miles from Haverfordwest, on the road to St. David's. I was 

 not aware that an}' interest attached to the record of road-side stations 

 for this plant. If the reader take the coach from Worcester to Aber- 

 ystwith, he will very frequently see its large yellow flowers in the 

 hedges. Hypericum linariifoliura in the island of Guernsey ; Dudres- 

 naia coccinea shores of Arran ; Juncus diffusus near Ross; Bromus 

 racemosus, Rosa cinnaraomea, and Medicago sativa near Clonmel. 

 The number concludes with " Foreign Gleanings," consisting of Pro- 

 fessor Schnizlein's discovery of flowers of the common beech con- 

 taining both stamens and pistils, and also of remarkable monstrosities 

 in the flowers of the weeping willow ; Dr. Miiller's method of mounting 

 small objects for the microscope in the fissures of a partially split 

 talc, which closes by its own elasticity ; Professor Goppert's notice of 

 a gigantic fossil- tree, thirty-two feet in circumference, and which has 

 probably lived 2500 years ; and Dr. Cohn's observations on organic 

 life in the atmosphere. And finally, with notices of collections of 

 plants for sale. 



Although it is easy to conceive the great difficulty of keeping up a 

 periodical like the ' Gazette,' yet I trust the editor will not shrink 

 fi-om the labour he has undertaken. I exceedingly regret that he 

 contemplates " the exclusion of a portion of the articles derived from 

 foreign works." I hope he will reconsider this determination, since 

 it appears to me that foreign works are the source whence the 'Gazette' 

 derives its interest. 



Notice of" Hooker s Jounial of Botany and Ketv Garden Miscellany ^ 



No. 25, January, 185L 



The dearth of botanical literature of which I have already spoken 

 pervades this periodical equally with the last. The contents are as 

 follow : — 



'Report on the Brown Scale, or Coccus, so injurious to the Coffco- 

 ])lants in Ceylon ; in a letter from the late George Gardner, Esq., 



