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given many proofs of the value and constancy of this character 
(‘ Annals,’ Jan. and March ; and Journ. Micr. Soc. Jan. 1864) ; 
but as they were chiefly drawn from Kentish plants, it seemed 
desirable to extend the inquiry to species grown in different 
localities. Accordingly Mr. W. H. Baxter, taking an intelligent 
interest in the subject, supplied me with fragments, from an old 
herbarium, calculated to afford a further test as to the raphidian 
character of British Galiacee. Some of these were marked 
“probably poisoned,” and others “probably not poisoned ;” 
and their names here follow on the excellent authority of that 
botanist :—CapriroLiacEm: Lonicera Periclymenum, L. Capri- 
folium, L. Xylosteum, Sambucus niger, S. Ebulus, and Viburnum 
Lantana. GawtacEx®: Galium saccharatum, G. spurium, G. pa- 
risiense, G. montanum, G. sylvestre, G. tricorne, G. erectum, 
G. saxatile, G. uliginosum, and Asperula cynanchica. VALERIA- 
NACE#: Valeriana dioica, Centranthus ruber, and Fedia dentata. 
‘These three orders are here placed as they stand together in the 
natural classification. After careful examinations, raphides were 
found in every one of the specimens of Galiacex, but could not 
be detected in any one of the two other orders. And this is the 
more remarkable, not only from the state of the dried fragments, 
but from the fact that the raphides of Galiacez are regularly 
smaller and less abundant than in many other plants (Onagracez, 
for example), as was well seen in comparing the small and scanty 
raphides of G. saxatile and G. uliginosum with the larger and 
more numerous raphides of other dried portions of several spe- 
cies of Epilobium. But such is the persistency of raphides, that 
T have regularly found them in dead stems, leaves, or roots of 
Onagracee and Mesembryanthacez which had been fully exposed 
to the destructive effects of the whole winter and spring ; so that 
even these decayed fragments may thus be surely distinguished 
from others of allied orders. 
Edenbridge, May 9, 1864. 
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
‘The Birds of India, $e. By T. C. Jerpon, Surgeon-Major, Ma- 
dras Army, Author of ‘Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.’ 
Vol. I. and Vol. II. Part 1. Calcutta: 1862, 1863. (London: 
Smith and Elder.) 
We have to apologize to Dr. Jerdon for having so long delayed to 
notice the valuable work he has published. But, in truth, it is not 
one to be hurriedly reviewed ; for such a proceeding on our part 
would justly lay us open to the charge of insufficiently recognizing 
