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* New and Rare Plants.' 



* Literary Notices :' — Babington's ' Manual of British Botany,' 

 ' Summer Life on Land and Water at South Queensferry,' Glenny's 

 ' Golden Rules for Gardeners,' and ' The Ornamental Flower Garden 

 and Shrubbery.' 



' Deutzia gracilis,' being the description and history of a hardy 

 shrub of the order Philadelphaceae, introduced from Japan, b}'^ Dr. 

 Siebold, 



' Notes, cultural, critical and suggestive :' — ' Meudon Pine Culture.' 

 ' Distribution of Islands in a Lake.' ' Quince Marmalade.' 



' Allamanda Schottii,' being the description and figure of a very 

 brilliant stove plant, with large yellow flowers, of the order Apocynaceae. 



' On Rain and the Construction of Rain-gauges ; by E. J. Lowe, Esq.' 



* Garden Hints for Amateurs.' 



' The Metropolitan July Exhibitions.' 



I have great pleasure in knowing that my notices of this excellent 

 journal have induced many of my readers to take it in. This is the 

 aim of such notices, and I cannot help feeling a wish that they were 

 more general. When, for instance, do we ever see a notice of the 

 ' Phytologist ' penned in the same truthful and kindly spirit as those 

 which appear monthly in its own pages ^ 



Notice of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History^ No. 44, 



August, 1851. 



There is one botanical paper in this number, intituled — 



* Contributions to the Botany of South America; by John Miers, 



Esq., F.R.S.' 



In this paper Mr. Miers describes four species of the genus Liri- 



osma of Poppig, who places it in the order Olacacese : these are — 



L. Candida, Popp., L. pauciflora, A. DC, L. Gardneriana, A. DC, and 



L. Velloziana, A. DC 



Notice of" The Naturalist^ No. 6, August, 1851. 

 There is no botanical paper in this number. 



