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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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long yr short-styled, had been observed, and others | 
bond the public in a somewhat diffuse form in this | bot 
volum 
th from position and adaptability, the M" "rra id 
n which the stamens and istils were Yd d He ee dwells (on the vast import- X the growth of Cotton in the — rld.” 
E. be d he dimorphic species recorded were y dition to so iad a 
al cena, aretioides, Auricula, capitata, , for ee the | m mentioned bonc which i: ra be proeured in 
emiolics cortus: y: cx nsn a elatior, fari- | on t "d passage across Panam: an American | abundance. These, and sit other advantages 
finmarchica, glutinosa, helvetica, | monopoly. The United States, more alive ta their own mentioned. in this volume, would appear to justify 
hirsuta, integrifolia, y senem —À macrocalyx, interests than the Government of Britain, | Capt. Pim 
marginata, minima, Palinuri, p edemon ntana, peti iolaris, 
besc 
ica, erc and pulv 
species mentioned were, P. elata, longiflora, mollis, scotica, 
sibirica £, par verticillata. The author hence concluded 
r 
that dimorphism of the sexual organs a very 
p 4 jai ie in "the species of Primul 
o present at least structurally 
dsp species, G. Y Miers ms na. Cortusa was mentioned 
arkable in ently presenting the long-s -styled 
y x not- 
nder 
was com 
go; 
ed by so America. 
me ae who poi. ep a formal pen. with the |i 
the 3 
thr 
- Govern ment of New Grana da, fi — dca 
ma. |hesho 
his Pe aloe and the future prosperity of Central 
in hand himself, a 
t his ‘pla 
vour to form a company to carry out 
The railw: val "18 
withstanding “the neige "iffe ulties e the 
taking, was completed in 1855 ; since wig time the 
opoly of 
Lacones in Ep bi pt if the scheme bo E a 
d likely to succeed, we are vinced 
te of the 
ifie, 
Government, the Americans “1 pening |i 
their route ; a railroad was built which will ever be a 
monument of skill and enterprise, and the value of 
which. has far surpassed every calculation. Its om 
dante only, as virt 
ol o 
Soldanella, The other genera of Primulaceæ which t 
and pistils of der 
length, though occasional — pansy sate occur, A 
very long and detailed account was eo tir of a 
have stamens 
ntrol of t 
<r eae "y our rivals, y our vip must 2 neces- 
sity be cramped when we reflect that our unscrupulou: 
offering have the power, in the event of war, ka lit 
on. pos 
He has given Subelaztal proof of his own faith in 
ts ultimate success, by purchasing from the King "d 
Mosquito a tract of land surrounding Gorgon Bay, as 
site for a future terminus and emporium; E A in 
honorer, D " fact adds weight to his testimony, or 
he December number M. Verschaffelt’s 
;|ZHutraton "Horticole we find. aa of the vn 
lowing plants: iervilla multiflora, one of 
Weigel a group, a ^ branching shrub, with ovate-lanceo- 
dimorphic species of Primu wr. t up our trade, or destroy our cruisers in asi 
tabulated. E to the genera Pean h sl differences of | before we could even inform our countrymen that pe — overs, groning in. S omg ot umbels "3 
the two sexual forms, it was explained that the long- | hostilities had broken out.” ln ares apr b, 1 aloe e Mim 4 appears = 
styled. had the pistils equaling in length the tube of | Captain Pim proceeds to say, “ that gr territory | ander Seer nde rir DN + bino GF p. "e , aan 
the corolla, the stigmas larger and rougher, the | of New Granada be mp. Day ase against any rival to the) he id t hi how fud V th s un F1 
dn s atiached -= "the middle of the corolla | Panama railway by th M. of its co entra which du ii — cete , hin ^ -—Y tre ds to limb, 
tube, whose diam as thus increased upwards, and | grants t itizens of "ihe ted States the exclusive M pet d * ro dou bi, an a subs an vh i a multi 
the pollen arran inde Dy smaller and more trans- | privilege of transit, it follows that we must look else- fom: "Glow ja aU em 
Em while in the va epe forms the pistil | where for eans of g expeditiously from | i — Are zini Iba Ens ve vith a 4 
did n above half p the corolla-tube, heri to ocean." The object therefore of the present | ^ vna 4. foli foli c ay caren m with e. sz 
the s I o itin sm e and depressed at is to point out the ent routes which have rate bá dme -r, iugo, a ote meer m eur ^ er x ay 
i , 
abrupt expansion, an 
I olen rains wore Er and more opaque. As to 
fortili d that of £1 
ume t 
been gs wow and to report on their peculiar advan 
As an introduction to the subject, Several 
artes are die ted to descriptions of the vire 
geographically, historically, politically, &e., and man 
dish bro breue et^ 
The enbachia 
hybrid, with iiesli-ehie mat thickly spotted with 
red onli 
ort stamens ihe short pistils. E^ iter the cien 
of either form to the aioe of its own flowers 
effecting a homomorphie union leg 
teromorphic and homomorphic unions 
were SEN ow by the mean results from 
respect to the Mem and homomorphie unions | 
in P. A nsis, usoides, involuerata, 
ts gave for dis m 
imorp ased to be dim 
unctions were grani mo odified. Tins the | 
Cori, ^ which I in the ordin y Worn orpbi 
mene — t 14, and in E a. remet y aot 
capsule, ricca in the form with sta amens | 
, and f 
nion | o 
and productions of 
the clim the 
thus Thesa eed flowed T. long extracts from a pamphlet 
y 
a Born dy bs on the ad 
ar ransit, v. ha ut 
was aes in "str; and shows 
Napoleon had not 
hi 
g of. xs 
Nica a. This 
that, with usual acuteness, Louis N 
reat 
E We purs Tid an account of the various schemes 
that have from time to time been formed for 
| toming the Isthmus by a can is idea suggeste 
tselfat a very early period, when the efforts of the 
My vei a valores a natural passage from 
sea to sea had;fail. 
Fernan s vii ie frit in gave his ear 
with, on account of the utility which 
convinced would result fr 
th 
says, * 
M piatils of equal len 
“Whether | 
— às. 
rphism has not always a gen ical 
ehumeteristie, and poem that the two forms did 
not per Deed me these structural and physiological | 
characteristics. I bes allu de to the evidence afforded 
di the the non-dimorphie Cowslip, namely, the resumption 
Rae eid 
soe dd tance, has now become the of | 
h his 
failed to ascot the importance of establishing this 
highwa: names 
January bliin — Dieffe 
I | Baraquiniana, whioh, dine diig to E Schott, is the 
humilis, rather 
desirable coun 
er by M. 
g p 
Schott's emai referred to at the page 
M. 
pee quoted, that there are in the establish- 
of M. pores ates three new species of 
shia: which hi er cesi d his coadjutor 
— — tively named 
ltii, 
ana. The first ot dane is the D. cognata, 
Schott; the se 
ee 
ee ee a a double-flowered J: apanese 
xe rub, already y us as as havi ving been exhibited 
become 
space ; and it must be borne in mind hat for ra r a sailing | 
vessel the time sf ce from England to India wi 
| be longer vid a canal through an it 
round the Cap 
termediate stages rem this and the e normally 
means of the iron 
m the Atlantic to the 
dna state, These taking us back in the 
and the gracile plan by which it gave rise to 
dimorphically characterised race," 2. ‘ Notes on some 
Points in the anatomy of the Rotatoria," by ‘Walter 
qidruary 18.—G. Bentham, Esq., President inthe chair. 
executors of ons tm Woods, Esq., presented 
oi al i 
"p pe i but it cR not be nece 
uire so 
before from to cted 
The Got tion of the io e Atlantic t 
Qoa egre suffice for the immediate opening | 
there passengers and 
of a 
goods conl be. conveyed by rie a a A lake of | 
a fine cadam 
to | oe. 
| English letterpress d we 
- | Mr. Newton, of Eastbourne Tere Hyde Park. 
o 
ork on laying out Vilia Gardens and o 
ntal grounds of comparatively limited ex ie 
baying’ a considerable reputation on the Coni rs 
pi understand, about to be published i in Tu country E 
Hardwicke, of tesis illy. It is to be illus 
$ 
pu 
RÀ 
TU D. 
Ziza —The Water Oats, 
or Wild Tadian Rice, common in ge Bierig of the 
a valuable series loras, and other botanica iearagua to Virgen Bay, whence ised 
Works, which that gentleman had bequeathed to the ee os miles i ^ length, well bridged merican continent, and we believe a in 
Society. Dr, Hooker exhibited the fruit of the Ch: already hé Russia f diet, 
dde edule), which is cultivated in t De del Sur, on. Liu. Pacific" | deserves to be better known. The as srona in je 
sat Azores, and has lately been introduced to the| We are —€— m uper CIPUE perat a s 8 feet, 
Europe ia. whi is projected |w ere is a eposi 
T s tothe K ledge of the Forami elit | hough y dmitting that aged dura teli ai eonsider many places, where there is little current, these 
dU thizopodal Fauna of tho Shetlands," by Henry B difficulties to k ted, yet th hor gays, | incre as materially to fill up the 
J, Esq, was read, «I am inclined to think that no engineering impedi- | and impede the progress of boats. e plant is usually 
ment of any importance will be met with in the|6 feet high or more, and panicle with female 
interior; in point of fact, that an easy gradient might | flowers above and male below. It „has been found 
t8 of Books. | be marked out over the dcum distanc wing ni the mero! territory, and in the 
pes Illinois, ei n mney 0 
o | Canada, i 
usefulness.” - 
ap a o i 
to the value of the land, both of M 
subject, and 
ce in 
the sul 
9f information, which he lays 
and gd if a for agricultural purposes. purposes. 
regards Mosquito, I do not hesitate to say, 
ow 
country thro ich rail- | length—so to h 
| road is proposed to pass, weve told that ii impossible ber in Canada, and in the No 
osqui 
y 
that itis I fall out at the slightest puff of wind; 
iti is common. When the rice begins to show the 
‘te full studded wit! th low verdant islands. It c into 
er in July and August. The leaves attain a great 
me 11 eet, In the month tem- 
rth-Western States rather 
hence 
