454- ' Catalogue of Botanical and Horticultural Works. 



advantage of this plan is, that it never becomes necessary to kill the bees ; 

 and that honey may be taken at pleasure, if it can be spared, during the 

 whole of the summer, by simply removing, or unlocking and opening, the 

 slip of board which covers the longitudinal opening in the cylinder, in the 

 middle of a warm day, when most of the bees are out. This, as we have 

 elsewhere mentioned {Encyc.ofGard. § 1 738.), we have seen done every two 

 or three days, for the use of the family, during a residence of above three 

 months in a small Polish town on the Russian frontier. We are glad to see, 

 by some papers in the Mechanic's Magazine, that different persons are 

 trying this hive in England. If the trials are persevered in, we have little 

 doubt the Pasieka will be found, in familiar phrase, the best fancy-hive. 

 For profit, the common straw hive and total destruction, however harsh and 

 unsentimental it may seem to say so, are not easily to be surpassed. 



Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London. Vol. VII. Part I. 



London, pp. 208. 5 pi. 

 Twenty-three articles, nine of which are by practical gardeners, and the 

 remainder by officers, or persons in the employ of the Society. 



Colville, James, Nurseryman and Seedsman, King's Road, Chelsea: A Cata- 

 logue of Plants grown for Sale. London. 1 2mo. 3d edit. pp. 49. 



Mr. Colville excels in the department of house-plants, and has here 

 produced a catalogue of them, very well arranged for the purposes of com- 

 merce ; viz. 



Hot-house climbers. Geraniaceae, or plants belonging to 

 Hot-house plants. the family of geranium. 



Amaryllideae, or bulbous plants re- China roses. 



lated to Amaryllis. Hardy climbers. 



Orchldese, or plants belonging to the Hardy flowering shrubs, requiring 



orchis tribe. peat-soil. 



Green-house climbers. Hardy trees and shrubs. 



Green-house plants. Hardy perennial herbaceous plants. 



Each of these divisions is arranged alphabetically. The Amaryllideae, 

 which include 16 genera, and upwards of 250 species, are distinguished as 

 hardy, green-house, and stove plants ;, so are the Orchideae, which include 

 52 genera, and about 150 species. The China roses include 46 species and 

 varieties. The hardy climbers amount to 21 genera, and 89 species, Wistaria 

 Consequana and three fine hybrids of Passiflora caerulea included. Thegreat 

 recommendation to this catalogue is, that all the plants are purchasable from 

 Mr.Colville. In a fourth edition, we should like to see the Greek letters omitted 

 before the varieties, and common numerals or English letters substituted. 

 The use of Greek letters to designate botanical varieties, is a relic of the 

 dark ages, unattended with the slightest degree of utility. 



Medical Botany, $c. : By John Stevenson, M.D., and James Morss Churchill, 



Esq., Surgeon. In Monthly Numbers. 3*. 6d. 



No. III. for March, contains 



Hyoscyamus (hyos, hog, and kyamos, bean ; because the capsule somewhat 



resembles a bean ; and the herb, though poisonous to man, may be eaten by 



swine without injury) niger, Common black Henbane. An indigenous annual, 



on dry calcareous wastes. A narcotic poison, operating like atropa, and 



to be counteracted by emetics and the stomach-pump. H. albus, aureus, 



physaloides, and ScopoHa, are all deemed poisonous. In medicine, it is 



occasionally used as a substitute for opium and atropa. The seeds, smoked, 



are said to relieve the tooth-ache. — Phellandrium {phellos, cork, and aner, 



a man : or from phettio, to deceive; in allusion to its resemblance to parsley, 



fennel, and other wholesome umbelliferae, and its noxious qualities) aqua- 



