1 76 Plants for a Vegetable Representative System. 



'Lichenes. Tribe 3. Homothdlami. 458. 



254. U'snca barb5.ta. CoUfema granulitum. 



liichhies. Tribe 4. Athdlami. 459. 



255. Lepraria fltiva, near London ; vir^scens, near London. 



JJchenes. Tribe 5. Pseudo-ljichenes. 460. 



256. Opegrapha vulgata. Arthbnia impolUa. 



Order IX. Fungi. Tribe 1. Hymenomi/cetcs. 461. 

 (125) 257. Agancws camp^stris ; prat^nsis. Morch^Ua esculenta, Carshalton. 

 '^ FAngi. Tribe 2. Pyrenomycetes. 462. 



258. Sphae^ria digltata ; hypuxylon, Lambeth. 



Fungi. Tribe 3. Gasteromycites. 463. 



259. Ph&Uus foe'tidus, Hampstead Heath. Nidularia campanulata. Tiiber cibSirium, 



Fungi. Tribe 4. Coniomy cites. 454. 



260. Butrytis parasitica. .S^idium Berberidis. I/rfedo i^bse. 



Totals : A C5) O (114) 260 ; ^ SI (36) 58 ; i_J _J (33) 64 ; a (36) 82 : = (219) 461. 



The first observation of a gardener, on looking over the foregoing table, 

 will probably be, where am I to procure all these plants ? But let not 

 this difficulty deter any gardener under forty. If it does, he is unfit for 

 what he will have to meet with before he shall have passed through the 

 remainder of his life. There are three sources in Britain from which every 

 plant in the foregoing table may be procured ; the nurseries, the botanic 

 gardens, and the fields. All the plants in the first column, with the excep- 

 tion of the mosses, lichens, algse, and fungi, amounting only to twenty 

 species, may be procured from the Epsom nursery. The twenty species of 

 mosses, &c., may be gathered in the fields by any cryptogamist. We 

 recommend application to be made to the curators of botanic gardens, 

 who may direct some of their young men where to pick them up. These 

 habitats, and other particulars to guide the young men, are partly given in 

 the table, and will be found complete in the Encychjxxdia of Plants. Most, 

 or all, of the trees and shrubs in the second column may be procured fi'om 

 Messrs. Loddiges ; as may most of the green-house plants in the third 

 column, and the hot-house plants in the fourth column : but whatever is 

 deficient in any of the nurseries in the articles of green-house and hot- 

 house plants, we believe, may be made up from the Kew botanic garden. 

 After the nurseries have been exhausted, therefore, we recommend a direct 

 application to Mr. Alton at Kew. The botanic garden there being sup- 

 ported at the public expense, the public have a right to benefit from it, so 

 long as this can be done without any injury to the establishment ; and, as 

 taking cuttings from plants will in most cases rather benefit than injure 

 them, we are at a loss to know on what ground they can be refused to any 

 person who can show that he is competent to make a proper use of them. 



Through the kindness of the London nurserjanen, and especially of 

 Messrs. Loddiges, Mr. Low of the Clapton nursery, Messrs. Young of Ep- 

 som, and Mr. Donald of Woking, we expect, in the course of the present 

 spring, to possess specimens illustrating all the orders and tribes of the 

 first and second columns ; and for the third and fourth columns we intend 

 to apply at Kew for cuttings, as soon as this Magazine is published. We 

 shall not limit our application to the particular plants enumerated in these 

 two columns, but ask for "cuttings of any species illustrative of the orders 

 and tribes there enumerated." Other gardeners may do the same; and as 

 the orders are numbered, the trouble taken or given will be very little. 

 The result of our application we shall lay before our readers in our next 

 Number. 



