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Foreign Notices. — Germany, 



our marche aux fieurs (flower--market), 

 where, twice a week, our gardeners 

 come and display for sale, by the break 

 of day, the most brilliant products of 

 their industry. I am not aware that 

 similar establishments exist in Lon- 

 don. It is not easy to form an idea 

 of the quantity displayed in this mar- 

 ket; on certain days there is hardly 

 room to contain them. However, the 

 whole is sold in the course of the 

 morning, and towards evening the labo- 

 rious gardener returns cheerfully home, 

 without troubling himself with the fate 

 of his flowers, the most part of which 

 fade at our fetes, and some also die 

 on our monuments at Fere la Chaise. 

 Accept, Sir, the assurance of my es- 

 teem and my regard, 



" Le Chevalier Soulange Bodin." 

 Ail, Jardin de Fromont, pres Paris, 



Novembre 29. 1826. 



GERMANY. 



Panicum Germanicum {fig. 62.) — 

 48 Sir, in the notice you have given (in 

 vol. i. p. 82.) of the different kinds of 

 millet cultivated in Germany, I ob- 

 serve that you have omitted to men- 

 tion the mohar, or German millet, 

 Panicum Germanicum ; I therefore 

 offer to your consideration the follow- 

 ing observations to supply that omis- 

 sion. As the plant in question has 

 been sometimes confounded with an- 

 other, the Panicum Italicum, permit 

 me first to state the specific characters 

 of distinction: 



"Panicum germanicum: (fig.62.) — 

 Spike compound close; spikelets (a) 

 glomerate, involucre ts (b), bristle- 

 shaped, longer than the flower; ra- 

 chis (c), hirsute. (Linn. Spec. 83.) 



" The Panicum Italicum is distin- 

 guished from this in having the spike 

 interrupted at the base by several in- 

 terspersed clusters of florets, the invo- 

 lucrets are shorter, and the raehis is 

 tomentose, and not hirsute, as in the 

 Panicum Germanicum. 



" I have known the Panicum Ger- 

 manicum as a millet, and cultivated 

 it with other species of the like habits 

 in a general botanical collection of the 

 gramina, but I was not aware that it 

 had ever been cultivated for any other 

 purpose, until I was informed of the 

 fact by Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt ; and it 



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