aga 3, 1858.] 
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towards he plain of Troy In; mate of the botanical arrangements of those days we 
Carris ja Oriental ‘Plg t the Po gees and | ought to keep before us the fact that we H upon 
ie ush grew luxuriantly, festoon ed|many natural groups ‘fom. a point of view very 
peekly Clematis ci oa and Vitalba, eriploca | different from what was possible in those times, not 
with Cynanchum, and wild Vine. und | long gone by, aoe every botanist’s great aim was 
raced with several species of Anemone, Iris; |to have ‘a complete herbarium of all the plants. | 
‘ossed th av, we} While the senbor of ota me agonal hy gone | a 
M 
entered a Pine forest covering the high grounds as 
ain of Beyramitsh ; ; in this we lost our way, 
Crocus. 
the 
pS nin which we believed Beyra- 
veries, a cor reaping iner ant 
genera has not _taken place, new {olan having be bee 
| and November. 
r pear: usu 
Bes the latter month, at the depth of 
2 feet, it was y 
‘hen boat an 
n 2 deg. equal to 
e dis sco- 
that in ain the ripening of man: 
S kea maine T af 
pe hic hich we reached as the Muezzim 
through a rich, wellowatere valley. =A 
t grew wild 
Anemone | 
the Hop and Lin 
and Scilla bifolia were pic a 
waters 
See bh 
oa into 44 penny 
i 
ing 45. 
when we consider the increased tendency oe subdivide 
js t ich 
aA 
orde T3 of P lants. onside rable 
exotic inte this season. 
Notices of of Books, 
A Treatise on Electric ior a in Theory and Practice, 
by Aug. de la yo translated ws €. V. Walker, 
F.R.S., in 3 vols. eee 9 Longmans. 
A bu ulky volume of 8 pages full si important and 
interesting facts completes SM " La la Rive’s — 
treatise on EBlectrieit ty. That such a volum uch a 
be presented to the English publi by 
& 
his Jigen 
of Proteac 
ace, w 
p 
sucte 
| Îndicate its claims to: ea “title aa "he genuine, ADA o ne ich 
f the 
eters are dito 
English ansa d, and an English editor, with 
index, i is we think un pag onable ; but passing pres “dis 
hesi itati on in adding our testi- 
or ant now before the Soc’ 
£4} 
d on a beautiful al troe ai 
eer this and the foot of Ida the nyo 
. barren, intersected by bet through 
be Soomnnd er foun d its way to the „plains, 
On 
obtained b 
Muller. 
om our rawashes; but ser 
ndent r en we soon made POA 
id coffee haaa t af the 
Pro- 
iseanan for some fine we 
urces. of the Scamander, where 
guhes by many ine erful springs from the schist 
1 si this neighbourhood we found Sarii 
sfums, Dentaria bulb aoa Ruscus H 
he fi 
Sm 
RE 
t the mat 
we picked 
we fol- 
r. 
unde 
ental at arsi gaen alia, of which specimens w 
by Hill and mers in 
Riv ver of Moret eton aS 
these s 
dedicated it to Dr. Toha ye of bene; 
wy lecturer on Natural Sci 
che Sorte * A he indebted to that gentlem 
Macadam, of ve tor 1 placing in| net 
forests on the Pine | 
e genus is described _ Dr. | 
e grea eater ase of the present volume treats of the 
Seran ations of Electricity. Its physical, phont Sas 
physiological applications are explain ned with a fullness 
a and the 
ns, and 
jence in the weet College, 
deri 
of rn or, 
ned; 
inflorescence 
pes cy 
u 
$ eniai filiform 
blu: 
capsule is 
on on 
e 
four. —Dr, Bal 
zi 
my, hands the db mage inform 
ved >» Muller’s deserpton a 
The peste is fr wit 
e leaf, not being 
oth Pag: as aoe e 
denticulate, the ovary atid, 
ending 
mt stigma, which is shghtly: thickened upwar 
ovate 
side. 
ephan 
ur called a atten 
thes date of AA E There 
esiri 
oehr ora the subject to 
three impor- 
on the ta of pie £ 
omena, a and i in the second of these will 
mthor and editor have bro! 
it chapters 
aiaei phen 
15 entir ely 
drawings. 
es arranged in whorls 
"opposites “te leaves wei flat and 
from lan 
ber 0 ar 
n nnually struck by lightning in different countries. 
M 
Some curious results as to the number of persons 
annually struck by SERTI are collected and are 
worth recording. The author says :—“ It is not wi 
out interest, before ey ourselves with the 
o 
means of protecting oneself from the attacks al light- 
— to form an idea of the number of persons are 
tatia 
al | France; 
which he had been enabled _to procur 
e; and notwithstanding that the | re 
pa So 
an are 
The sepals are four 
at the apex, 
numer, inserted i 
tion, w 
vertical continuous 
| | nin ng, ae upon is Tylon 
| documents extracted from t 
ena 
men and animals struck, has suc bare 
the 
woody, 7 
or elliptical, 
This ee genus 
almost 
tiful 
Orite 
n tothe recen nt e 
ing js | Six 
Aden se a elum. 
“ Recent Batania Intelligence? By Professor Bal- | struck 
expe 
earing near 
numerous, formin 
1 
ee ean a Tay ul 
the 
es: Se. Nat. 2 serie 
abe ‘s, fig. 2). - Sub- 
la. 
; bu 
rate p eelit 
s broadly lanceolate, ‘one’ r Obtuse, s soli | 
the lowe otal ones short iis > pedi doaa |t 
» Sessile ; a tabular lue), 
flowers inflated belo se 2 
wledge 
z ps o Dn 
and which had been | i 
the Rev. C, 
of roots ; 
the ovary was bicar 
ven nal Fang noae 
works wh 
n 
Dr. o the observations of 
St. Pierre, perch pater to the structure of the ovary of 
biate and Boraginaceæ, in which he had shown, by 
teratological specimens of ce and Myosotis, that 
pellary, to four bein 
caused by wearer of the 
maton! icon the sudden aik of Dr. Royle, 
z 
mbers, 
tural Society of London, who had done much to ey ER 
ze Tndia, — 
Dr. B. pes rred to 
Hoyle ws pi Hio and 
lished, 
just tribu a 
z ag 
f Herbaceous plants and shrubs, in flower in 
n air, at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, | 
sinense, Sisyrinohinm” am T meath 
varieties, Phlox v 
O | garis, Prim ula can 
M. Germ 
the division in’ 
suturi 
Sa 
eat 
, and Secretary of the Horticul- 
ing niin ng 
iene poemas 
, and concluded 
to his memory, 
O 
E f 
main de | th 
e D li htag is at a m 
va Sw 5 a n E 
nnd, 
Re “who milar researches for the 
United States and for the island = Cui 1 found for the 
Sent a number 
s 50. 
rad Bevtang has 
foll death, 
pomi i, Symphytum caucas- 
perennis, a 
Hepatica triloba, 
reviley rimula v 
ES 
a, Primul: 
a Auri 
the hu 
"Gentiama „acaulis, oR odorata, 
beris ees 
Arran “9 still deserving o ma nguiy 
gon e determined ar 
Moita a good eid ar 2. Is 
ential with it ?—3.. * On the co goire- 
Internode: 
pervir rens, Tussila; 
olympicus, — Hellet 
O j Baio Tussilago oy 
yin 
mogeton distachyon, Anchusa 
heal oe _niger, 
it has fi fire to houses, cases very frequent in 
certain „parts © of the Uni ted States. It would appear 
man species ; Dae Ei w iro arise from their 
a lar M. @Abb bbadie 
axus, 
s 
Plantarum, published in 
montana, Chei 
mum cok nap Cydonia japonica, 
atrovirens, Rhododendron Nobleanum, Jasminw 
m, Garrya elliptica, Erica 
, maar tinus; Arbutus andrac’ Arbu 
fo lia, Arbutus un edo, Corylus avellana, Comos fiiar | and the 
Alchemilla 
Er 
iranthus pean ‘Mathola | incana, ry- 
m nudi- 
“easy Erica stewed 
tus serrati- 
1 
olka 10s, ae Dr ee gives in the 
n “th a = 
pala a about 1 cg b 
Holland spec 5, rong 
en to x. 
now 
Will be see 
Wene iberica, Alys sum gemonense: 
M‘Nab’s list, Dr. 
| attention to the remarks of Dr. Lin 
nm accow nting, for the painan ae ot 1 
app of coe ‘or af 
E 
Tn 
Balfour called 
nti fe = mee 
Shy lec 
MM. 4 Beequerel d Wartmann, the auther 
established “that the roots and all 
external parts of plants which are filled with the juices 
of vegetation are negative in relation to the surface, 
more or less moist, of the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, 
young branches.” He is of opinion that 
| it is demonstrated that we have n f of the 
ence in living vegetables of an electric state us 
to that found in the muscles and nerves of animals; 
of a 
ya that all traces of electricity that have bee 0m col- 
ted may be attributed simply to o rdin nary « chemical 
le has been done as yas ia o ine 
rate accounts of the temperature 
2 fee 
ito nly remains to add that numerous woodeu 
| jaterspend throughout the volume, and are e specialy 
4: 
i 
tober, 
e Philosophical Institute at eTa 
a| The tory of t 
E 
nodes 
oe the ac telegraph s are err 
ands, 
the English Language, by John 
| |E divas ( (etme, Longmans, 1s.), is one of th ne Rev. Mr. 
It 
