Florist's Guide. — Medical Botany. £85 



Paddington Green. — Laodice Ranunculus. From the choice collection of 

 Richard Percival, Esq. jun., at Highbury Park, Islington. — Burnard's 

 General Quiroga Auricula. From the collection of J. P. Burnard, Esq., of 

 Formosa Cottage, Holloway, where it was raised from seed. — Prince Leo- 

 pold Tulip. From the middle row of the tulip bed of Mi". T. Davey, in the 

 King's Road, Chelsea. 



JVos. XXXIII. and XXXIV. for March and April, contain 

 129 to 136. — Publicola Picotee. Yellow flowers, the petals marginated 

 with red and purple. — Pherobasis Ranunculus. Singular from its petals 

 being so much darker underneath than they are on the upper side. — Wood's 

 Delight Auricula. — Burnard's Agitator Tulip. — Millard's Star of Brans- 

 wick Picotee, 10s. per pair. Singular, yet pretty. — Warris's Union Auri- 

 cula, 75. 6d. each. — Strong's Canning Tulip. Grown in the second row 

 of the tulip bed of W. Strong, Esq., of Albion Cottage, Brook Green. — ■ 

 Quixos Ranunculus. From the collection of Mr. Pile, Cambridge Road, 

 Mile End. 



No. XXXV. for May, contains 

 137 to 140. — Cox's Buff Ranunculus. From the select collection of 

 Richard Percival, jun. Esq. at Highbury Park, Islington. — Alexandrina 

 Tulip. — Cochineal Hyacinth. From Mr. Shepard of Bond Street, who 

 is supposed to be the only seedsman in London who has received the sort 

 from Holland. — Knight's Lady Craven Pink. The last three flowers are 

 of surpassing beauty. 



Medical Botany, &c. By John Stephenson, M.D., and James Morss 

 Churchill, Esq., Surgeon. In 8vo Numbers, monthly. 3s. Qd. 



No XXXVIII. for February, contains 

 149 to 151. — Bonplandz'a (Humboldt's companion) trifoliata ; Simct- 

 riibia;. An elegant evergreen tree, from 60 to 80 ft. high, a native of South 

 America, and the bark of which is known in the Pharmacopoeias under the 

 name of Angustura, or Cusparia. This bark has a disagreeable smell, and 

 a bitter taste, slightly aromatic ; by analysis it contains cinchonia, resin, a 

 peculiar variety of extractive, carbonate of ammonia, and essential oil. There 

 is a false bark employed in commerce ; but from what tree is not correctly 

 ascertained ; it is known from the other by having no smell, and by being 

 one of the most energetic of vegetable poisons, The true Angustura bark is 

 a valuable tonic, and has been considered more powerful in many diseases 

 than the Peruvian bark. — Croton Eleuteria. A small tree, from Jamaica 

 and St. Domingo, with brittle branches, which, when broken, ooze out a 

 thick balsamic juice. The bark has an agreeable aromatic odour, and, 

 when burnt, emits a smell resembling that of musk. It has been used a 

 good deal in Germany as a substitute for the Peruvian bark, and also for 

 mixing with tobacco for smoking. In England it is used as a stomachic. — 

 Quercus .ffobur. " Cut in spring the bark will be found to contain four 

 times as much tannin as when obtained in winter. Oak bark is a powerful 

 astringent and tonic, and, united with bitters and aromatics, has been recom- 

 mended in intermittents. When Cinchona bark cannot be obtained, and 

 the stomach rejects its preparations, oak bark may be found of service ; but 

 the former is so superior to all its competitors, that oak bark is but a poor 

 substitute." 



No. XXXIX for March, contains. 

 152 to 155. — Quercus infectoria. This species produces the nut galls 

 of commerce, as Olivier, in his travels in the Ottoman empire, first disco- 

 vered. It is scattered throughout all Asia Minor, and as far as the frontiers 

 of Persia. The fruit is solitary, and nearly sessile. " The galls are pro- 

 duced on the young branches, from the puncture of a small hymenopterous 



