320 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The species of chief botanical interest described and figured in 
parts 17 to 25 of Bentley and Trimen’s ‘‘ Medicinal Plants,” of which 
183 plates are now published, are :—Acacia Senegal, Toddalia aculeata, 
Soymida febrifuga, Piper angustifolium, Gelsemium nitidum, Simarouba 
amara, Boswellia Carterti, Ferula Sumbul, F. Scorodosma mbus 
canadensis, Plantago Ispaghula, Arachis hypogea, Toluifera Balsamum, 
palmatum, Peumus Boldus, Euphorbia resinifera, Hydrastis 
eanadensis, Calotropis procera, Alstonia scholaris. Sume of these have 
not been previously figured, and others only imperfectly. 
The medical schools of London re-open on October Ist. The 
Lecturers on Botany at these various institutions are the following :— 
St. Bartholomew’s, Rev. G. Henslow; Charing Cross, Mr. Saunders; 
St. George’s, Dr. Whipham; Guy’s, Mr. Bettany ; King’s College, 
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Hanbury ; Middlesex, Mr. Hensman; St. Thomas’, Mr. A.W. Bennett: 
University, Prof. Oliver ; Westminster, Mr. Worsley-Beni 
European botany has sustained another severe loss by the death of 
Filippo Parlatore, which occurred at Florence, where he was professor, on 
September. He wasa native of Palermo, where he was bo 
August, 1816, and was therefore only sixty-one at the time of his 
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