702 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. (Jury 23, 1864, 
= > e m —— ives an) a 
its These arrived in York about the end of May. | be maintained by dampi ing the shelves and floors, but. bu 
On unpacking thes Ik boxes the skeleton was found n ear! ay A32otíces of Books. | par plants Mese Wili seh hp water i Dag. 
perfect, and the condition A Monoova hof f od "— rer Justo Butoin ion, and what is given to t should pass away 
ment. All that was lear di 9» ed nem y James Datem fei, = if bs ES or " e compost in which 
its eggs. Besi n t bird, there 
were some small detached, a sight | aries 
bo lates; but on — examination of on 
of th 
adl fe very yomg | ira, the 
e bones, 
eny o of the adult Ther 
of the history o of the 
n 
Esq., F.R.S., Author 
of Mexico pie goes mela. = 
po e« Wie Orchidacew 
numbers each containing five inod Plates. 
London: Lovell Reeve, Henrietta Street, Covent 
Gard 1864. 
When, some 50 : years’ ago Humboldt, i ith 
the 
d 
CERES 
being a mixture n p ad teed the 
four b wi 
be portions of fie eb lag of E four diferent porem 
ng them 
eminent Prussian botanist enis ph publication 
of their aan work on the new 
(cic with fine sand) : and fibrous peat, About one 
By the aid of photography it was determin 
PoiméMedt record of the state in which the bones had 
come to hand. <A copy of these photographs was pre- 
sented to the Soci Oneo m represented, am 
iei 
toe of the left foot. And certain aly no genus of | s 
the still flexible ligament which secured its head in the | even the ge gin {Face so well des ves ei , 
et, and a portio kin on uter edge. wa | admitted w ticult 
y of this particular bird: the first rid 
representi ing "the conditi tion of all the vertebræ belo ow it, 
ong || 
to the > ilustration of which 
him ted in al 
pae put iy: pU s America, very little was 
of t vias 
third f t e pots may be filed wil 
this mixture, the other two-thirds containing nothing 
hams v epiphytes of that 
wn species forming ue super genus 
Mr. Bat is devoting 
country 
ons ay sm ia April 1 1833, 
Ne suppose he himself cultivates i in his 
rich ohne at Jeast 100. 
l, even so lat tely 
to five 
most fortunately y happens tat Ae. all find dleminlvos 
It is vain for the, Old World to 
Its Air. Scitis and Honc are quite inferior to th 
air as possible to the roofs, _ The pots in which the the 
plants 
placed in E of water, in s to se 
Sd protect them from wood lice. 
species 
secure humidity 
Nearly all Žel 
auring the 
e cirenmetance that greatly enhances the eir value, isn 
pul 
0. 
PERS of near Species remain in pe 
for weeks, pe left on the dd or eut for 
| bouqu ets. In so vast a genus we shall, , no doubt, meet 
Rae ty are Seleewis fragrant, and the 
the s 
the condition of the 
[m of gas 
f) Lat dE 
| will flourish under the treatment indicated above, 
only beg those 
east ai ave upon the species yee + most ađmirably in | 
this Bateman" mber, especi: 
Phal sis, with the inimitable great half-transparent 
variegated flowers of whi Butterfly-beauty would 
t t e obse hat O. 
ug glorious 
carcely equal for Ni of tints to the species just 
| mentioned, TOM the other day at Mr. Day's sale 
the constitutional peculiarities 
to the ape wi culti- 
Most pirm 
which at first opposed n Marriet 
cin € these nie ve now 
rstor us we 
becom oroughly 
We 
by Professor Owen, but 
only Sexual" The 
the difference may possibly 
most striking peculiarity of "ihe 
be | 
re di ica tha p a Pelargonium. Peopl 
naturally rat Nh that. ns of the tropics wo tld | A 
insist upon a d atmosphere. 
be grea aa what Mr. Bateman says, in spea 
of ő. po iun 
ut = Munich, in the year 1835, that I first | 
nted with this fine Od ontoglossum, 
the neck. The chal! vertebre were described as 
wanting those acic cular r processes whi ich are , gad on 
f the pria n On 
[opa a ual relations of ng forms. of Lythrum  Saliearia, Y 
| having eae the nep of Professor Von A 
| been allowed to exa WA ehe tion of dried 
a | specimens that Baron "Karnak et then recently 
brought home with } aN ears after- 
| wards living plants were vut to from Oaxaca, 
tho 
find that it is attended Nw 1 
No mistake can 
bess: 
e, and 
ich may be regarded as suitable to the bero 
eoal Orchids, Most Odontoglossa are, like the — 
- | vallias, vay impatient of the knife, and cannot t 
idly 
| fore be r 
aversion ‘to famig atio 
leaves to fall off” 
Who will not now take the Odontoglots into special 
favour ? 
key iy They have also a 
n by tobacco, which causes their 
| Dietionary of Natural History Terms, with their 
arg E David = M*Nicoll, MD. Lovell 
ve & C etta Street, Covent Garden, 1863. 
Pp. 584. pes 
good work of this kind has long bee a decided 
desideratum, and Dr. M*Nicoll deser jos the tha nks of 
hole body of students of botany, entomology, 
ogy, &e., for the very useful book which he has 
| farnis d 
There are hosts of unreasonable people, with the 
wer smattering « of verdi who Meelgh pue 
the hard Latin and Greek names to 
those have no notion |. 
n 
y C. Darwin, Esq. — 
hybridisation vot certain species of Passiflora, Disem: ima 
ia.” By Mr. John Scott; communicated b 
he (E gus 
flower of Optatgs asanifora." By Dr. 
: fom this being 
sustained 
fe y sevi ere winter, 1837-38, I mde expected would 
ve been des estroyed on their way; so, far, however, 
the case, they appeared to have 
o injury Bus - the cold, 
f the house did not e xceed 70°, D ut when 
mr 
vy bu leaves. All went vd e so long as the kr cin E 
me it bea: 
ENTOMOLOGICAL: July 4.——A. R. Wallace, 
Vice President, in the Chair. Mr. Tegetme 
on 
e; | Wii 
het at which the Ore 
ramen maintained, they 
r, and before a twelvemonth 
ms, Ls a 
plants, to our then ficiis, of the con 
hich alone the Orchids of cool countries co 
expected to t hrive." 
Of nat va ee an our author writes thus:—“I 
am n that this plant we bab he in "E 
ans sutil within the last year ertai 
| Right of it has ge" pel s ablishe d in any Englisl h 
ever, found in a French 
hid rack: P: were 
then pier rs their 
pass e all 
multitude of bed invaluable | 
ions under 
could 
be 
describer, &c. We have 
| of names occurring in M iu the 
Thus:— ; 
d a de (Bot.), the original Japanese name of the j 
ime (Bot.) i — or feather, à; — 
avepos, avdpos, a stamen 3 a g of Malpighiaex. 
* Malpi ghia (Bot.) P.N. ius "M Malpighi, 
of Medicine at PRA) dita genus of the sple 
he f | botanical periodical. ave, |t 
ae os heap ri the iin v that it w biot D work (he "sition 1 Horticoe ^ under the o n of roh rd. Malpighiae * ge di diction, DD 
hich p d the | O. maxillare, is ously the same as the pla once people know 
perd — pre, on Ca Lr. represented "in the Saia x should wind have pri nd history of a hard name, it is found that — 
of bees of abnormal shape, with a view to we that|bably fallen into the by mistake as Professor | longer complam but rather seem to enjoy strange 
their was of | Lemaire, had I not enjoy e oppo rtunity, which he * nem an ge ar nted m — 
instil com. | unfortunately Leder ie examin the original speci appens ese proper s Bes 
instinet, Doy that | n nh was wages the | mens in Dr. Ii m^ from which that | extensively used in memory of Englishmen, e : 
necessarily in able botanist drew d wo descri ption (in the * Folia guish other countries; Pepe 
quence of the cell being surrounded by six other equal | Orchidacea ’) of the two species. 3 h | of the are not always euphonious iid 
sized cells. Mr. F. i bad | Dr. Lindley in sp Ms us though he | Nobody could object to the five consecutiv pes 
already e on se i i to this | made a most careful drawing, is sho a glance at | find in p: 7 nine Bar pius. re 
view of the subject, maintaining the base of the | the latter to be a totally diffe thing; N h: artra^mia, Bartsia, whatever they mig € P 
ly | 1 cells of the common w: as flat, A | moreover, I fear, long since disa ri our | Kaulfus’sia and Kiggela'ria, but, if there wel 
ommuni n was read from Mr. 8. St the | collections. In Dr. Lindley's description the flow wer- | occasion, the public would pe gee gan 5 er avi 
manner in which he had induced the colony of wasps | Scape is said to be terminal, which in Nature it never | as they ay i Fu’chsia and Esc pow f = 
(Vespa germanica) to form the curio es of struc- | 18, scende sal from the way in which Karwinski's wild| Scarce! to the dificil ol Ru 
tures exhibited at the preceding meeting. These were | specimen w ued together it the ea presents that intent sid t> paa it, is the diffienlty 
to build appearance in pe» herbari mn, pondo. necentuatio: w 
built by a small colony of workers „attempting PPE the e of the Mp and petal e said to be to their great annoyance, i ve uw E 
and from which they were another box, | pubesc es) though nothing of the kind is "visible to the|science are not always - ege on ^ pe suhj tation, 1 
when the structure Ls derrera feng dei eggs ke the oda p Mo A xm ll "i MN ioni E have 
bein; ited. Mr, Stainton exhibited a poa ede e powerful iet ying g y certain rabat oA MP" he attempt has ; 
Um addi i on to what has already been stated to reconcile the claims of the ru com i 
n, we take the rcm excellent eaves = the one han of euphony on the Á— dm 
ted | “ As most of the Odontoglossa require to be treated i M‘Nicoll’s work gives a brie pla ga ad 
the same way, I Meets, from the ‘Guide to Cool | 15,000 names and terms used in Natu ‘ Tete those. : 
Orchid Growing? (Reeve, 1864), the following in-| usually in a single line, It will be invalute i] solve 
bi o for. the culture of the Ceol ill | for whose use it was written, He hopes PR ts of the E 
| all succeed perfectly i ina Lbs lean-to cing the | the difficulties of least the younger stu d af w 
ofa etg ine ture of which need not exceed | Natural ry Sciences. It has the mer pep 
. They should stand on a shelf i slate or stone, me of ende uie Ans — of the Lora Es — 
near the glass, but should always be protecteđ from r. M Nico! credit, for 
the direct rays of the sun, Constant humidity should Siue 
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