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the author, supplies to the student of Indian botany a standard work 

 of reference, illustrating the Indian flora, so far as it goes, as perfectly 

 as Sowerby's ' English Botany ' depicts the British flora. 



Dr. Cieghorn exhibited the original specimens of Osbeclda hispi- 

 dissima, W iff Jit, and Mitreola paniculata. Wall., figured in the part 

 recently received from Madras;; Dunbaria latifolia, JV. and A., dedi- 

 cated to Professor Dunbar, of Edinburgh ; Alysicarpus styracifolius, 

 D.C., Hedysarum glumaceum, Ilo.v. Fl. Ind. iii. p. 646 : the ticket of 

 the original specimen in the Edinburgh University herbarium, in 

 Roxburgh's handwriting, is distinctly written " H. pluraaceum." The 

 error has been copied into subsequent works. 



5. ' Report on the state of Vegetation in the Edinburgh Botanic 

 Garden, from the 13th of January to the 13th of February current;' 

 by Mr. J. M'Nab. This communication embraced the follov^'ing 

 register of the periods of flowering of plants in the open air, as com- 

 pared with the dates of the first flowering of the same species (in 

 most cases the same individual plants) in the Botanic Garden last 



year. 



Dates of Floivering. 



1851. 



1850. 



Alnus glutinosa 

 Eraiithis hyemalis 

 Primula vulgaris 

 Corylus Avellana 

 Erica heibacea 

 Galanthus nivalis 

 Lamium album 

 Helleborus odorus 

 Geum pyrenaicum 

 LeucDJiiui vernum 

 Vinca minor 

 Symphytum caucasicum 

 Doronicum caucasicum 

 Crocus susianus - 

 Potentilla Fragariastrum 

 Vinca major 

 Tussilago alba 

 Lamium maoulatum 

 Galanihus plicatus - 

 Daphne Mezereou 

 Tussilago nivea 

 Knappia agrostidea 

 Cerastium Biebersteinii 

 Arabis procurrens 

 Rhododendron Nobleanum 



