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deira and Teneriffe, read before the Society in March and April, 
1855, is presented in extenso, and fills about 34 pages. 
The remainder of the botanical part is occupied with Dr. Meis- 
ner’s account of some new species of Chamelauciee, and with the 
commencement of Mr. Kippist’s paper on two apparently unde- 
scribed species of Genetyllis, from South-west Australia. The 
papers on Zoology we leave for our zoological contemporaries. 
Mr. Bunbury’s remarks on the Botany of Madeira and Tene- 
riffe is one of the best papers of the kind. The amiable author 
says, that his “ Notes on Teneriffe must be considered as merely 
supplemental to the excellent accounts of that island by Von 
Buch, Webb, and Berthelot.” In our number for June, 1855, 
we gave a brief notice of a portion of this paper, and therein ex- 
pressed a desire to know the dimensions of Erica arborea. We 
can now inform our readers that m favourable localities this Heath 
attains a height of 40 feet and a circumference of 4 feet. The 
Phzenogamous species of Madeira plants amount to 700 in round 
numbers, and 480 of these are South-European plants. This our 
author considers a large and striking proportion. We have not 
sufficient space for the discussion of this subject, nor for any 
remarks on the origin of these species, nor on the question of 
their nativity or introduction. 
We find that a great number of the genera is British, or they 
have representatives in the British Isles. Several species are 
British, while a few are only doubtfully distmet from the natives 
or the denizens of these our Isles. Of the Madeira Ferns, 15 at 
least are found in Britain. Nephrodium (Lastrea) Foenisecii, 
Lowe, is very plentiful. We think we have this species or form 
in the Orkneys, almost the “‘Ultima Thule” of Great Britain. Se- 
veral other Madeira Ferns are widely distributed in Britain, as 
Blechnum boreale, Pteris aquilina, Polypodium vulgare, Athy- 
rium Filix-femina, Cistopteris fragilis and Scolopendrium vulgare. 
Our most common Phznogamous plants seem to be absent in 
these islands of the west, judging from Mr. Bunbury’s Lists, if we 
except Rubus fruticosus and Cytisus scoparius (common Broom). 
We extract the following notice of the Chestnut-tree, one of 
our quasi-native species:—“ I observed that the sweet Chestnut 
trees, which are cultivated here and there in the neighbourhood 
of Funchal, retain most of their leaves through the winter, the 
foliage being partly green even in January, while those on the 
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