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Arundo Epigejos, L. In a wood at Inworth, in several spots where 

 the soil is strong, but rather scarce in flower. 



E, G. Varenne. 

 Kelvedon, Essex, April, 1852. 



Notices of Botanical Periodicals, Src. 



Hooker's ^Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany^ Nos. 37 

 aiid 38, January a?id February, 1852. 



The January number contains : — 'On two new Plants found in Ce}'-- 

 lon ; by G. H. Thwaites.' ' Second Report on Mr. Spruce's Collec- 

 tions from North Brazil ; by G. Benthara.' * Abstract of a Journal of 

 the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald ; by Berthold Seemann.' ' Tribute to 

 David Douglas.' ' Sale of Nees von Esenbeck's Library and Herba- 

 rium.' ' Herbarium of the late George Gardner.' ' Plants of Mount 

 Olympus.' Notices of Lanzius-Beninga's ' Beitrage zur Kentniss des 

 inneren Baues der Mooskapsel ' and Dr. Grisebach's ' Bericht iiber 

 die Leistungen in der Geographischen and Systematischen Botanik ;' 

 by B. Seemann. 



Mr. Thwaites describes two new species — Epicarparus Zeylanica, 

 T/iUK, and Doonia Zeylanica, Thw., and illustrates them with plates. 



In Mr. Benthara's report we meet with the following new plants : — 

 Salacia dulcis, Bt/i., Anthodon grandiflorus, Bth., Anthodon ? laxi- 

 florus, Bth., Ilex parviflora, Bth., I. petiolaris, Bth., Cyrtospermum 

 gummiferum, Bth. (Gen Nov. ex Ordine Terebinthacearum), Icica 

 Spruceana, Bth., I. pubescens, Bth., Hedwigia rhoifolia, Bth., Thyr- 

 sodiura, a new genus, closely allied to the East-Indian Garuga, three 

 species of which are described — T. Spruceanum, Bth., T. Salzmanni- 

 annm, Bth., and T. Schomburgkianum, Bth. 



The portion of M. Seemann's journal given in this number ti'eats 

 upon China, wherethe author arrived on the 30th of November, 1850. 

 The following passages refer to the state of botany in Hong-Kong : — 

 " There are at present two gentlemen, Dr. H. F. Hance and Lieut. 

 Colonel Eyre, who take a deep interest in Botany. They made seve- 

 ral excursions with me to the most profitable localities, and pointed 

 out some of the rarest productions of the Flora. Dr. Hance was un- 

 fortunately suffering from intermittent fever, which has shaken him so 

 much din-ing the last four months that he will be compelled to return to 



