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species are given : — Papaver cornigemm, Slks., Acanthophyllum gran- 

 difloruui, Stks., Pistachia Khinjuk, Stks., P. Cabulica, Siks., Dorycniiim 

 calycinum, Stks., Caragana ambigua, Stks., C. ulicina, Stks., Onobry- 

 chis dealbata, Stks., O. nummularia, Stks., Astragalus sericostachyus, 

 Stks., Rhynchosiapulverulenta, 5'/As., Sophora Griffilhii, 5'/^s., Cucti- 

 mis cicatrisatus, Stks., Zehneria Garcini, Stks., Z. cerasiformis, Stks., 

 and Derema aureum, Stks. 



The article on the tallow-tree and insect-wax of China is not 

 signed, but evidently written by Sir W. Hooker. It appears that 

 in an establishment at Vauxhall alone no less than one hundred 

 tons (,£7000 worth) of candles from wax and tallow of vegetable ori- 

 gin have been manufactured in a week. The author then proceeds to 

 quote the interesting account of the Stillingia, by Dr. Macgowan, which 

 we published some time ago. The insect-wax, or Pe-la, is said to be 

 produced, according to some, by a species of Coccus; according to 

 others, by the Flata limbata, which feeds upon an evergreen shrub, 

 the Ligustrum lucidum ; but even this latter point is disputed by Mr. 

 Robert Fortune, who, we are told, in a foot-note, has brought home a 

 deciduous tree as the true plant which yields the wax, and which is 

 living in the garden of the Horticultural Society. 



From the paragraph relating to the voyage of Captain Denham, 

 R.N., we learn that H.M.S. ' Herald' has been re-fitted, and started 

 for the South Pacific, accompanied by Mr. John Macgillivray as Na- 

 turalist, and Mr. Milne as his assistant. Probably no surveying ves- 

 sel ever left the shores of England under more favourable auspices 

 than the 'Herald;' and the islands which the expedition is to visit 

 are of more than ordinary interest. 



The note referring to Mr. W. Gardiner, of Dundee, is in substance 

 the same as that printed on the wrapper of our last number ; and it 

 is to be hoped that the subscriptions for the benefit of that botanist 

 may be numerous. 



The announcement of the death of Professor Schouw is taken from 

 a Danish paper. A biographical sketch of that illustrious naturalist 

 will be found in a subsequent page. 



Erratum. — Page 600, line 11, for "Ivemembcr" read "I remem- 

 ber." 



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