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in one estate, and weighed down by seven or eight middlemen, matters 

 are very little better. The Bamboo, too, has flowered, a phenomenon 

 which occurs only once in forty years, aiid is considered by the natives a 

 sign of impending drought. The flower is full of seeds, which are edible, 

 and are considered by the natives to be given by God in order to provide 

 against the deficiency of rice. The season is a most unnatural one, the, 

 thermometer in Calcutta standing in the shade at 104° at three o'clock, 

 and in cool houses at 96°. At Azimghur it is 106° in tents, and the 

 troops knock up by nine o'clock. — From the Times' Calcutta Corre- 

 spondent, May 29, 1858. 



Clifton Plants. 



I have just returned from Bristol, where I found Arabis stricta, Trinia 

 vulgaris, Fotentilla verna, Geranium sanguineum, Convallaria Polygonatiim, 

 the last not yet in flower. J. S. M. 



May 26, 1858. 



Martagon. 



Mr. Editor, — Pace " F. C," who kindly admonishes the young and ig- 

 norant to consult Paxton's ' Botanical Dictionary' when they cannot make 

 out the meaning or the derivation of a term, I beg to propose the above. 

 They that crack the nut deserve the kernel, and I will vouch that Sir 

 Joseph has not broken his grinders on it. I therefore humbly request 

 that some reader who knows Tm-kish wdU give me, through the ' Phy- 

 tologist,' the result of his philological cogitations on the word Martagon. 



■ Iota. 



(See ' Phytologist,' vol. ii. p. 455.) Naturalized Plants of Great Bri- 

 tain : — In the range of Ononis reclinata, the locality of Alderney, on the 

 nori7i.-west coast of Prance, and its station nearest to Great Britain, was 

 accidentally omitted. At p. 459, instead of "native," 'Cybele Britannica,' 

 following Ivtj)atie7is Noli-me-tangere and Sedmn reflexum, the words should 

 have been, "native?" i.e. " doubtful native," as in the case of Teucrium 

 Botrys. 



■ We beg to inform our readers that a coiTcspondent of the ' Phytologist ' 

 has several fascicles of alpine and other rare Scottish plants for disposal : 

 they have been recently collected in Braemar, Clova, and other parts. 

 The price is 5s. per hundred unmounted. Those who desire sets should 

 address a note to M. D., Post-Ofiice, Airdrie. 



Comninnications have been received from 



Charies Hobkirk ; J. S. Mm ; Miss M. Hutton ; E. Green ; Eev. W. 

 M. Hind ; W. P. ; Daniel Stock ; Charles Empson ; Archibald Jerdon ; 

 H. B.; J. Giff"ord; B. K. ; John Sym; W.Windsor, F.L.S. ; A. G. 

 More, P.L.S. ; G. E. S. ; Eev. B. H. Webb. 



BOOKS EECEIVED FOR EEYIEW. 

 Sir W. J. Hooker's Report on the Roi/al Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



