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CONTENTS. 



I. Observations oil f/ie Genera of Eiirojiean Grasses. 5î/ Joseph Woods, £'*•</., 



F.L.S page 1 



II. Oil the Ovulain of .Sant.iluin alljum. Bi/ William Griffith, Esq., 



Assistant Sargeon hi the Madras Medhal Service. Comnuinicated hi/ 

 Richard IIorsman Sollv, Esc]., F.R.S. 8f L.S 59 



III. JVotes on the Develojiinent of the Ovula of Lorantluis and \jscum, and on 



the Mode if Parasitism of these two Genera. Bi/ William Griffith, 

 Esi/., Assistant Surgeon in the .Madras Medical Service. Communicated 

 bi/R. H.Solly, Esq., F.R.S. i^s L.S 71 



IV. Descriptiims of those species if Polygonum and Fagopyruin which are 



contained in the Indian Herbarium of J. Forbes Royle, Esq., F.L.S. , 

 8<c., late Superintendant if the H.E.I.C. Botanical Garden at Saharun- 

 pore, and now Professor of 3Iateria jMedica in King's College, London. 

 By Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.J., F.L.S., F.G.S., ijc-. . . 93 



V. IVof ice of certain Australian Quadrupeds, belonging to the Order Rodentia. 



Bi/ W. Ogilby, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.R.A.S., S^-c 121 



VI. On the Faniili/ Fulgoridse, ivith a Monograph of the Genus Fulgora of 



Linnivas. Bi/ John O.Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., S)C 133 



^ II. On the Structure and Affinities if Araohis and Voandzeia. Bi/ George 

 Bentham, Esq., F.L.S I55 



VI II. Descriptions of two new Genera if the Natural Fa mill/ of Plants called 

 Conifene. Bi/ David Don, Esq., Libr. L.S., Prof. Bot. King's Col- 

 lege, London ]()3 



IX. Descriptions, &;c. if the Insects collected In/ Ca/dain P. P. King, R.N., 



F. R.S. 8\ L.S., in the Survei/ of the Straits of Magellan. Bi/ John Cuktis, 

 Esq., F.L.S., ^,c 181 



