36 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



I think, about 9 in. in diameter. They were porous beneath, in 

 place of gill, as in the common mushroom; consequently, they 

 appeared rather to be a species of jBoletus than a species of 

 -^garicus. However, they were of excellent flavour, and the 

 ship captain who brought the stone home told me that it pro- 

 duced three mushrooms at sea, which, he said, were very fine. 

 In three or four weeks after the two above-mentioned were ga- 

 thered, three or four more came up, and so on, for the first year. 

 The second year it was not quite so productive; and, in 1833, 

 my successor informed me that the mushroom stone was nearly 

 exhausted. I think eight or ten such stones would supply an 

 ordinary family with mushrooms for two or three years. 

 Maeslaugh Castle Gat-dens, June 16. 1835. 



Art. IX. Floricultural and Botanical Notices on Ki^ids of Plants 

 nexuly introduced into our Gardens, and that have originated in them, 

 and on Kinds of Interest previously extant in them ; supplementary 

 to the latest Editions of the " Encyclopcedia of Plants," and of 

 the " Horius Britannicus" 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 35. Qd. coloured, 35. plain. Edited by Dr. Hooker, 

 King's Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. 



Edwards's Botanical Register ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 eight plates ; 4s. coloured, 35. plain. Edited by Dr. Lindiey, 

 Professor of Botany in the London University. 



Siveet's British Flotioer-Garden ; in monthly numbers, each containing 

 four plates ; 35. coloured, 25. 3c?. plain. Edited by David Don, 

 Esq., Librarian to the Linnaean Society. 



. An asterisk prefixed to the name of an order, a genus, species, 

 or variety, is prefixed to mark it as one not registered in the 

 Hortus Britannicus or the Gardener^ s Magazijie ; a dagger, to 

 denote it as already registered in one, at least, of these works, but 

 with details more or less diflf'erent from those aiven with the das:- 

 ger; a double dagger, to denote a genus, species, or variety, 

 either not yet introduced into Britain, or that has been intro- 

 duced, but is since extinct in it. 



The late Mr. Drummayid. — (Vol. X. p. 583.; Vol. XI. p. 

 608.) His Christian name is Thomas, not James, as given in 

 p. 608., in the notice of the fact of his death. 



Ba7'07i Lndwig. — Dr. Hooker, in the Botanical Magazine, the 

 number for December, 1835, in his account of Veltheimm glauca 

 var. floribus rubescenti-purpureis, t. 3456., has noted that " We 

 are indebted, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, for our bulbs [of 

 it] to Baron Ludwig, a nobleman resident at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, where he generously devotes his time and his fortune to 

 the promotion of botany and horticulture, particularly with the 



