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Егвпсаву 28, 1863.] 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
199 
Ingram, and others. S. Rickards, Esq., sent a dish of 
— may ex ре сб to rewa 
with those found in th 
d his 
But ани КЫ 
very fine. Lemons, From Messrs. Dep of Dorking, anch of our Faun tise will be nean que jen 
came good specimens of a new уйш, t calga ag nube: of species ів, УА „will find much to ide in D" that гадан each part is „complete жүгү, де 
шыро, hybrid iew thy author will 
House Improved and Stones Improved Black BP a study of the animals, without which he must be con d icio е spared to finish а task о 
sidered rather aS a colle ctor аш а naturalist. Even 
LIN. Feb. 5.—George Bentham, Es qo Pre score of species which may exist in his 2 
а" їп rel ЖЫ. Robert Braithwaite Esq., М LR.C. S. neighbourhood, he will find many an инте subject тре ти T on English and Foreign 
d J. Br ка бк ря е, Ез 2 were e сн, Fellows. The | for examina Ha n, and there are localities in which Sails of e ri Natio Я учр н ч of -Boats and 
M o cations were re ad :— je “Оп е exis- hé гш, not hope to have his ав rewarded by | Sailing Man y ement, (ча бм H. PN A tad 
tence ot iud S fokin. and on new or interesting ол паріб or eco- p 1 Бай он X; ойша; d C. Folkard, Esq. 
ies of Linum," H Olanla а regards our own experience there are few а) PP. ni 
tion, in severa ы Lo 
М. letter from Col. Yorke to Dr. 
Hocker iculæ contained in the wood of the 
MN a. the crys 
municated by 
iiem 
Mysol, and 
NA "by Francia Walker, 
Feb. 19. —G. Bentham, Ed. ge audit: in Jed chair. 
a curio 
Ceram, with Шаа В of new |i 
Asr s ou peri 
Men to whi ka we can look back with greater pleasur : 
than those which were engaged in the study of thes 
humble animals. 
In respect of geographical песне араш, 1618 
w very small a number of our shells are 
t TR y o 
Nea y 200 various ki nds of boats, E 
little book ; Mo almost ev 
of А at is represented bya woodcut or e seis 
шы 
Ке kind 
та ra 
The attra every 
person ted in boats will be uit тера the d 
of jeoturitig it by the curious and abundant infor 
tion it contains. 
re- 
The Rev. S. Owen Glenie, M.A., and C. M. Esq. | warded the researches of European botanists, there The February number of the Botanical Magazine 
Director of the Sydney Botanic бака: were Pleta d|is still a vast mass of species A hich are ар contains portraits and description of the following 
Fellows. The following paper was read :—* On the gue with our own; but amongst the land plants:—ereus pterogonus, а rare species from Саг- 
Structure DA Lir of the шош: or Guinea | and freshwater mollusks, 10 British species only are thagena, which first blossomed in August of last year. 
Worm," by A. Charlton Bastron, Esq., М.А, ; United Мам and of these six ан d. een | 16 is a straggling growing plant, with the thick 
municated Vy G. Busk, Es sq. прса ed in various ways, like many of our fleshy spiny branches four or sometimes fiveangled, 
weeds. The four remaining species are Pisidium prs n 313 ex white ч ате, чын in Бока е e 
satum, Paludina vi eda a, Helix pulchella, and Zua : 
ТОНИ of 2350065, eq tw which are land, and two fresh- Tie Cdranassa obtu tty тн ү of the 
ater species. two Jand shells оен ure marylidaceons family, КЎ an um drooping 
The Land and Fresh r Mollusks indigenous to ongst those which have the widest range, both red and g cylindra Т онд т re-i uced by 
naturalised i на Зн vu id Lovell Ree а оо iu ire s froni Tai Б Нейт. "f; of Edinburgh, and well 
L.S. 8vo. ri хх 2/70, with a Map, Portrait, | ee erm Thibet pe, deserving of cultivation as a winter-flow nir green- 
and numer: бш сабо эн e must, how: give раа house bulb. ripedium Hookeræ beautiful 
This Mets “following penc in the wake of Mr. | nature, and we "ge pd one of general interest. 16 spere, related to- C." Venust mud barbatütn; 
Jeffreys eccount of British Land and Fredy yate er | is well known that th ough snails are des ue sed in this | 110рогќей from Borneo by Messrs, Low & Co, anc 
Shella, з was projected RE years since, and ha country as articles of food, some species, but more described by Professor Ric Љепђасћ as having “ e 
{га tur „abo ut i whi ch are calc ulate d to flowers of C. hirsutis simum, and the leaves of Phalæ 
make” "the especially the large Apple snail, which is naturalised i in | | nop 
ough 
additional =e The geogr aphical distribution. E the 
Species is one especial point which the author had in 
view, to the illustration ч ога ап та шр. is 
devoted ; there а e numerous beautiful aceu 
figures of the animal in sis species 
t 
It ish however, 
complai ts that уу 
would more еу direct atten- 
t 
well as ed the аә; and there is an exellent 
aud, the father of moder 
3 
MT 
s 
olume closes Ld n tabular view of t tl 
all the spec: 
treatise in four sections on the distribution and origin 
of species in genets al. 
few spec uch as Helix pomatia and Dreissena 
polymorpha, of phe origin, though now completely 
ng ode nd widely distributed—the latter, ийа ES 
Weed, rri in almost every str 
вре c included і in the volume 
A ecimens ud. been бер ai Est. fro Чы 
30 years before by an English n 
ове, to the range of hills in the део Due d of | 
to. the utility of snails in pulmona: ary 
зц. 
тоф ег 
ЗЫ h en their father | 
flo 
some 
nobleman, for the same gi 
It is, in fact 
= 
ш 
wers, very sho 
y us at -— ary of es scarlet tint Mr. 
ven them, f the * bright bric 
n "i an 
1 
mentions. 
purp 
Reigate and Boxhill in 8 
bred abundantly, Mr. Ba 
house in that locality. 
juice of the snail 
na officinalis, the plant 
which has “supplied “а ka proportion of the renowned 
Loxa bark of commerce.” It ery interesting an 
— unorna amental stove shrub, having ovate acute 
lea 
Goodallii, which inhabits i in the greatest andion the 
Pine stoves at Chester, are excluded, as species which 
can only live in an artificial tempera ature. 
As regards the animal of Pisidium, it may be re- 
marked that it i: В поб correct to d 
united into оп ђе. | The fact is that опе of „the 
very Ө s form. 
was taken in ев апа с in gravies and. with 
entremets of meats. In the course of а twelvemonth 
he pacte was entirely cured, went to the Crimea, and 
жоє tar-shaped spreading dow Tt has been 
ај called дка б, Сар С. аса- 
demica, and c. lancifolia, but Dr. Hooker her: e gives 
offi 
t 
is MN 5 this mom кы 
айа К. 
; fre equently escape not poin lich has 
not been suoni attended r^ io many Mie We 
doubt, too, whether т Lymnæa and its allies really brea the 
water as ina =ч air, 
et nd operculum w 
of the shell is closed up in winte 
It would be оом to extract many inter соак раззарев 
SN. 
HE T which the apertur 
come up to the surface to breathe, and su pposing 
Ancylus to be more generally submerged, which is not 
L BOOK, but we 
have em exceeded our usual inita and must refer 
which 
however, the case, it is very possible that a m air 
bubble. is formed at the pulmonary ori orifice ugh 
will assuredly be no subject of regret. РЕ 
Musci Italici pieni Fascicolo I., con 
of those insects ice carry down а bubble of air with 
them into the water, by means o 
kept up, the sit dd constantly renewed from that 
ыр: { 
which is mixed up em Ба wal 
marked by the Olive and | 
increase in the develop- 
ment of  molluscan li; hilo in the intertropical 
| on Italian Mosses, commencing with the Corr 45 а-а 
а 
р. 69, 1862, 
Dé Notaris, whose | & 
берке дон, 
issure to be worth attention, while his figures if not 
due аге Раат tor the печа of the detail 
The present number is the first instalment of a work 
кейт кае sense, of Which 85 speci ties 
care with copious details, "The le ae ves 
of: several species are remarkable for the curious pla. 
n 
with which the enisi лз ак аы but the great point of | W 
interest in the ation of the | t 
teeth of the peristome, Shlok well deserve an ЖК 1 
urious form 
stu tady. ‚ Де тен obj Iz. 2 example are m 
теша 
pith 
blei e bir of the shell. but to ini $ 
опе 
ruralis, a в ecies i 
завр full 
the first change of which, * Ке many 
may be —M the 
cinalis, 
species are truly officinal, and 
one for the other," 
zo 
АБ о 
Мт. 
Ше ө Мейо inal Barks, which has 
bt by 
The subjects in the Florist and. Pomologist, are a set 
of five of the =з нетер of the many fine varieties 
of Pelargoniums introduced to notice and an 
admirable portrait, by Mrs. Dix, of the 
Pear. Мү. 
n 
E 
биду аі 
the Alicante Grape—which һе des 
variety, but ану а called the Kompsey Alicante, ”—as 
one of the finest- өр die ani * The Alicante 
for a black,” he ва эп Hall for 
Graj реа nside: т Теве: p^ 
Grapes yet — ? Both vari ietie showever, 
have an inherent drawback, both bei 
tive in the conditions of light, heat, and vegetation it 
abundance is prodigious, Upwar ds of 7000 la па „апі 
freshwater shells hav e been 
of pig every ct Kx abrupt „шон 
tad 4+7 
ree when they are coming into into уза шоа dew. 
seal taken off: 
orld, о re British 
„То the casual observer а lew dies 9 уч the 
n or on the ек downs, a few water аб 
e horny bi ponds and 
pearl mussel or »oi n our running streams, are all that | 
present themselves io his attention, The remainder 
minute fe orms, led i 
done ene: 9 and 10 Я А s cmm 
and again a about 3 i the afternoon, daily, for sensi 
неф: from nude upper cells, are far. mora pee notice 
than many of the points o 
wont to pore hour after hour. ` 
Though considerable difference provo pde | 
both of the leaves and peristome, 
are 
or among the decaying т roots of shrubs and bushes, only 
on the | 
t it is ria on oi divide in satis- | 
advisable. 
factorily into several genera, even wi 
Notaris is wisely content mee ЫР our 
and Seasons. Our molluscan Faun una, too, is simply | divisions — Adel, Cuneifolis, Synirichi and 
European in its character; it possesses n о local typical | Barbula. e other Mosses which are at 
гараг like the Fauna of opu enn mpi present e might. without violence be included 
Dur grov es do поб glow  benea the sa in the same category, especially w where the teeth are 
oor lh É foresta of i ine | а which is we believe almost 
Lotte es 
Bie at olivis, or of, Venezuela; and our runn 
kimea small in deed, compared with the mighty 
н н С d A Vil the young 
the clt which Ше тайа бор 
es are often of distinction, and а. 
iis и 
panied by a similar arrangement. buit dg: 
E the Italian sorts (18 out of 33) are | 
Ed rotecti inst. 
