a oo, a oe” Seow a aera soe. 
ee See SS a. Py a See TT 
E TT et eee ee et ek 
Marcon 31, oul 
aa Sintered 
sen AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 291 
yju uices are | 
ich T a 
prowned. Byt 
a rid of oa 
e aih | 
species belonging to ast many an enumera names given- to it or it 
nelide were known. had tried Esila by differen t yor of these names there 
pace India 
enera of Ham He 
| to ası atk eed the new- form now described, | a goodly. array, no fewer than 14 being OREN Y ie 
After pane 
oe forced them gentl until the stal wh ich oce curr’ red in the va ate „Mr. Gr iffith’s collection, | different, names: for the same thing)! 
8 inches long, but in my case Shor aid no’ quite no ifi g f the Actinia, a brief ace E 
tender as I expected they would hav: I} signed t ftl the places pose it is found, anda- list of its varieties 
cooked. the tops when a foot o es f gr A retai i not be ac Bia a with a ome classed under the following heads :— 1, liver-brown.; 
springs inthis instance they boiled t Ty either to “ the community of’ appreciable affini- 2, approaching the red; 3, approaching. the green; 
‘i favour of the tubers. James C thill, Cambere hi titut Mnarani ise natural genera, 4, colours “gy Sy Finally 1 eased is a. long. account: 
Gol Hamburgh Gr a —My attention saih or nie the practice ose botanists who have b from email we select the following :— 
‘ engaged i in the study of ths group. Sycopsis was stat abundant: nor more easily 
ur Paper | in, whic h it is 
allied 
spec ore 
Piati a itis since it affects the mos te A 
eek. the 
ed 
gts ium bie: Sieb. and Zuce. 
melid rocks; and does no 
“of, Hams eae at i present 
The Lag ped a amen 4 
h having bee sed here, I write to say that 
— vis eee its ~~ than that I served may be p reconciled toc captivity, an nd f few are. 
SN day y: my gardener that he had's ed in| 30, distributed under: 13 genera The ~~ was | more beautiful. Tt requires no special treatment ; a 
ising rape of which he had groate pectations; | described as being- widel ersed; there were a iter sufficient. te 
‘aad pat Pere should be done with it. My reply | ye og individuals or i groups far removed re en rough ; nor is it essential to its existence 
rom 
was that sas m merit was due to him he might sell the| 
rom s' fellows. have 
pe owes from ‘the sale, and know nothing “of the origin 
st be regar ded as being | ab the present | that te atter naa be very pure, for it) will continue 
F o dra when ave died out.. Yet: few 
of: 
the eh ecm number of genera occurring in’the | nade es more imm odie reseni 
Grape beyond what I t the time, which | belt extending from: Japan- through China to the | kind, or more gratefully express- their appreciation-of a- 
piiss i tho statem n your, Paper: My | Himalaya, thë Sie thought that this Me | pase-and limapidk clement. Wiel as the species is. dis- 
of d-as-the centre: of the order. Mr. Gri th, he} tributed in a state of fr ever. 
the 
late- father TENES in Ee ha 
d. Vines from- the Continent, whieh may have 
Vine bei fi 
ved, first- call Ted attention to the at ‘histologi- except where the bicig ig’ 08 clear. 
obse 
cal paesana of the- wood 
withont explaining to yow tha’ i 
than what 'I have stated. John S Crawley, Stockivood: 
d mbu: 
m 
n 
23 
aH 
a ` 
a 
oc 
as 
part of this week. 
ae sein si Mr. Meikle 
saan ei is ‘within a gunshot of the sea 
Jace has become renowned 
arly Grapes. These Mr. 
‘ 
what amateurs can do 
in earnest, an wih a 
Mr. Meikleham; we understand, 
autumn helt forcing commences with li 
mulches: wi “dung, and sore with capella 
The border is i most outside the . M. 
Se in Orange Leaves.—I enc pe e a few leaves of | 
an Orange-t ghisi em to have a some. disease. 
C ing on the under side of the leaf? | 
orm any idea of the 
a nked. Can you 
om nggest a sy Sy Poe may here state pase’ sc 
poly i- 
bOn for many ren pE isi freely and in the best of 
health. 4. F. [The leaves have all the appearance of 
having sufféred fr Szi 
maiis enie mitik. 
yj all res 
ch 
whioh leaves the tree | tannin}. 
of these: plan en in'| curious fact, for which I amindebted. to Mr. ya ot 
Bueklandi ia poaae. , Mr: Oliver Dimself Thad found Williams, juns that ‘the pisaa estuary is the 
o our coasts in w at ae he has not. found “thie 
more sceneries Rhodole ia, 'Trichoe dus, Hamamelis, | Spetes 7 pit he attributes to the foulmess. of: the 
Sycopsis,, Eustigma, rapes Goryle psis, and Liquid- | water. This absence would-be al ss remarkable weret ite 
ambar. The more of less‘ circular and faintly defined | not th at Tealia crassicornis is. abundant. there; but 
dises of the often much ache ; and: toler ably thick- "Actinia i is clean and Yealia is ‘dirty i in habits. tw the 
wal nchy of the wood; are, he stated; as in | neighbouring estuary of the Dee the former is commony 
the Conifer due to the presence of minute lenticular | as usual. 
cavities betwe ne adjoining wood-cel canals With ordinary attention the peere yon will 
traversing the secondary layers- of the cells are | attain a good old age in rig vity z Whose. 
posed: on’ each side to these intercellular ms and portrait i is zra byi Sir Joh ag AR had ieii in: his? 
are in pee Tad arae daterelly in: a direction | p n 1848), and j 
arinen ba a minu 
espects 
qite similar tov those: of the walled ing, and it was not man, 
“ glandular Kraer df- coniferous. wood. Asf that I ang of itas still s e. If-it is alive. now 
drawing: Sycopsis. (S> Griffithi i oe it- must be approaching a K ars- old... This. oon 
Fitch- accompanied the papers —2. “On Apocynum| was the prolific parent’ of 384- chi ldren. 
androseemifolium;” by’ Pa ak Ana ana s of specimen Ta Jived sete 14 years under thie worthy. 
Queen’s: College, Kin 
described: the ro this perii “Sedadla After sayi 
ho; ot 
nt, which is large and-contains- a: milky juice when) that Mr. “Gene's new vue is a oe asmara 
2 h; and hasa bitter fs oY a as’ being em 
oyed officinall, e the powder of the Pe BOT a TG P 
ee y dried root as an emetic, in’ psi of half a Spec es Filicum ; being eget ied’ all known 
drachm; and in smaller doses where'it did not produce illustr ated with Plates ay Sir W. J. Hooken K K, KE 
nausea he had found it to be a very useful tonic and Vol. III., Part 2. (Pam 
devintomt Ap z This new part of the Mese Sip Sct work that has 
officinal. Dr. Lichfield stated that the dy: root, (Joe: appeared on Berns, foytama ah account of the 
| yhieh’ is‘ easily pu like ipecacu- | genera eoad N and ag ae hee bow 
ima itter principle, |3 a huge conglom of. sp s- not co 
ance; oui a 
lignin, and an active ae stippo i 
nin. Water is: the best m Bis pe ia eotto 
new species of Musei from harinar ge in yrr um, ed 
rium of Sir W.J; Hooker;” by W. Mitten, Esq. This zium, and many more, for the very intel is role 
technical paper was- accompanied: rgd gora St 4, | that the r inda T ET founded 
“Note on the species of Nissolia,” by Dr: Asa Gray. fallacious. We starve atisfacti ion that two. 
ith m 
oat ay Ge a of this farate guide are nearly. 
ready for ca 
Parga of iseoks. 
A pe A History of the British Sea i 
called: pocy- [e 
“On some 
the berba- 
viz., 
Cenopteris pty: 
esiatal is s T zie one then there must bé som 
thing the matter with the:roo s ne noa 
- Societies 
Fiarek iae special general 
bat t 
soe sn arn ty | 
mee ‘of he 
~ house of thie Society o fea eases eee hi, for 
the of electi ic lidat. Se Tet boos w 
arious candide: 
proposed for Fel vain. The Earl of Ducie, V.P. 
occupied the chair, and ea tae ladies and’ gentle 
men Bei . for and. elect ad 
S: Ainsworth, J.: Snags 
J, E. Benary, T. 1 Bris 
U Cam 
Esq. ; Miss A. ra 
were H. Eas Sq. 5 
ae -Brinton Esq. 5 E: aa eR Esq; ; 
Mrs. Fenwick, C Freakey Esq:; Mrs; C. J. Freake; 
T; Preake, Major Gane 
W. > i > X 
‘Holland, Esq.; 
E tq, MEP; S Mo 
ra a ty ga 
Rowihed: Bite; 8. Berita, na wens Sn 
Tosi Wells, M.D. 5. Mrs. Weston, Miss M Weston dr 
F 
x 
$ 
a 
f 
5 
d 
= 
ions, 
of the animals “hich Į 'esoribe with distinctive : pře“ | o 
3 Sk” witli ord 
rst expected ong the next day w 
Esq. ; | 
pe therefore his diagno 
cs 
7 ae aa 
$ so that he may at a glance’ 
corn ge cero 
be ay A ea 
5 of the} bee esta Sec ee GARDEN, - i 
al varielie E o P. H. Gosses: en ——Var fal. aitesatiGne and improvem 
have Bet effected i in this establishment since it get 
placed -under th _ Eyles. 
specioe: and ae 
F.R.S: 
Tw ion the sere oon saye the author, 
‘ee pe sities a a 
and 
porti $ 
r flowing in open 
ele phn it has been eat that the. tanks: hey 
eseribing animals, he constantly wrote’ as: if he 
light some | less re, therefore, been removed, and kran 
These ha 
water pipes are belle put up in their place. Pipes ar 
substituted for tanks in a curvilinear Vinery 
ion, and whole is 
bling os one before iar 
species’ closely rese: 
can rarely be ame nded. alsp being s 
mt nO 
Some writers 
ess, which only distracts “the student, and is; after: all, 
| bnt the pe of an individual. 
3 | lo t hal 
Othe rS describe 50 
for 
