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' On the Composition of the Ash of Armeria maiitima growing in 

 different localities, with remarks on the geographical distribution of 

 that Plant ; and on the presence of Fluorine in Plants. By Dr. A. 

 Voelcker, Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Agricultural College, 

 Cirencester.' 



' On Lastrea uliginosa, Newm. By Thomas Moore, Esq., F.L.S., 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden.' 



Notice of the ' Naturalist, a Popular Montlily Magazine, illustrative 

 of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms^ No. 2, A^jril, 

 1851. 



There is no allusion to the vegetable kingdom in this number, 

 except in the title. 



Notice of^ The Gardener's Magazine of Botany^ Part XIV., March, 



1851. 



It may appear somewhat irregular to commence noticing this work 

 with the fourteenth number^ but with attempting to account for this 

 irregularity, I will endeavour to make amends by the cordial commen- 

 dation which I can now bestow on it. As the name implies, this 

 periodical is really and truly a gardener'' s magazine of hotauy : it 

 combines with scientific botany a mass of horticultural information 

 which will render it invaluable to the gardener; and this term is not 

 to be considered as restricted to the nurseryman, florist, or professional 

 gardener, but embraces a large and influential class of the population 

 who devote their leisure hours to this delightful occupation. Its illus- 

 trations also are capital ; there are five excellent copperplates, four of 

 them coloured and one plain ; and eight most elaborate wood-cuts, 

 illustrating six genera of exotic ferns, — Meniscium, Goniopteris, Go- 

 nophlebium, Cyrtophlebium, Niphobolus, and Phlebodium, — and two 

 species of Cypripedium, C. Atsmori and C. guttatum, besides seven 

 others devoted to horticidtural subjects. 



The lettei-press contents of this part are alphabetically indexed, 

 a plan, I think, originated in the ' Gardener's Chronicle,' and one 

 which it is difficult to approve. By this means papers are always 

 divorced from the names of their authors, and often from their own 



