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of concealing the source of their knowledge, it will injure their repu- 

 tation much more than mine. 



By the way, the ' numerous engravings ' so repeatedly advertised 

 are altogether absent from this number of the ' Naturalist.' 



Notice of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History^ No. 42, 



June, 1851. 



This number, besides an advertisement of the sale of the late Dr. 

 Gardner's collection of plants and books, contains but one botanical 

 paper : this is intituled — 



' Contributions to the Botany of South America. By John Miers, 

 Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c.' 



This paper is confined entirely to the genus Cathedra, of which two 

 species are described, C. rubricaulis and C. Gardneriana. 



Notice of Hooker'' s ' Journal of Botany atid Kew Garden Miscellany,^ 



No. 30, June, 1851. 



The papers in the June number are intituled as follows : — 



' Second Report on Mr. Spruce's Collections of Dried Plants from 



North Brazil ; by George Bentham, Esq.' 



' Decades of Fungi ; by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



Decade xxxv. Sikkim-Himalayan Fungi, collected by Dr. Hooker.' 



* Characters of some Gnaphalioid Compositae of the Division An- 

 gianthese ; by Asa Gray.' 



, ' Contributions to the Botany of Western India ; by N. A. Dalzell, 

 Esq., M.A.' 



' A new species of Arnebia, detected by Dr. J. E. Stocks in Beloo- 

 chistan.' 



The following papers are placed under the head ' Botanical Infor- 

 mation :' — 



* The Botanic Gardens of Madrid and Valencia; by Dr. Moritz 

 Willkomm. (Translated from the Regensburg Flora of March 7, 

 1851, p. 129, seq., by N. Wallich, M.D., V.P.L.S.) 



' Observations upon the elevated temperature of the male inflores- 

 cence of Cycadeous Plants: communicated by Dr. VV. H. de Vriese, 



