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stone of Worcestershire, and Herefordshire, &c. by Jabez Allies, Esq. one of the 



council of the Worcestershire Natural History Society, &c. A critique on 



a work we have not seen, and unconnected with Entomology. 5. New group 



of Orthoptera, Family Mantides, by M. A. Le Febvre, (extracted from the An- 

 nates de la Societe Entomologique de France. ) The curious insect here noti- 

 cid was found by the author in the Egyptian deserts, where no other insect upon 

 which it might prey could be detected, and where the desert is entirely devoid 

 of vegetation. 6. A list of the Coleoptera, taken in the county of Suther- 

 land in June 1834, by Mr J. Wilson, F. R. S. E. &c. 7. Entomological 



notes, by W. E. Thcckard. Among these an instance of curious hermaphror- 

 ditism, or rather monstrosity, in Anihophora retusa, Linn, the captive of Hy- 

 leccetus dermestoides, Fab: in Sherwood Forest, and Carabus intricatus upon 

 Horsley Downs 8. List of Entomological works 9. Varieties. 



Companion to the Botanical Magazine. By Sir W. J. Hooker, 

 Professor of Bot. in the Un. of Glasgow. Parts xiii. xiv. (com- 

 mencing Vol. ii.) 8vo. Curtis, London, 1836. 

 We take the opportunity of the commencement of a second volume of this 

 work, to begin our regular notice of the contents ; and to those who are ac- 

 quainted with the " Botanical Miscellany," and the " Journal of Botany" by the 

 same author, of which it is a continuation, it is needless to say more than that 

 it is a worthy " companion." It commenced twelve months since, and is in- 

 tended to contain " such interesting botanical information as does not come 

 within the prescribed limits of the Magazine ;" that is, Curtis's Botanical Ma- 

 gazine ; and it can be procured either as a separate monthly periodical, or stitch- 

 ed up under the same cover with that work. 



No. xiii. commences with " botanical information," from a part of which we 

 learn that Mr George Gardener sailed on 20th of May last from Liverpool for 

 Rio de Janeiro, with the intention of travelling in South America as a botanical 

 collector. " The Organ Mountains, so rich in orchideous plants, will probably 

 be the spot where he will commence his researches ; but the chief field of in- 

 vestigation will not be fixed till his arrival in Brazil. Preference will be given to 

 those parts of South America which have been the least explored, and the names 

 of such botanists as intend taking collections of specimens from him at the mo- 

 derate rate of L. 2 the hundred species, is already considerable, so that we have 

 every reason to believe he will meet, in the fullest extent, with the encou- 

 ragement to which his great enthusiasm so justly entitles him. The specimens 

 ticketed in all the collections will be marked with corresponding numbers, which 

 numbers will be referred to when the lists of the species come to be published ; 

 as they will be with all convenient speed. Mr Gardener, shortly before his de- 

 parture, published " Musci Britannici," or pocket Herbarium of Species of British 

 Mosses, containing a collection of from 200 to 250 species. A few copies remain 

 still for sale in charge of Mr Murray, curator of the Glasgow Botanical Garden. 

 — Synopsis of the Hemimerideae, a tribe of the Scrophulariacea?, by George 

 Bentham — Lacis ceratophylla, with a figure, (the Podostemum ceratophyllus of 

 Michaux,) a very singular plant, growing and flowering under water, attached to 

 the stones at the bottoms of the North American rivers. Dr Hooker, in his de- 

 scription of this giant, of which he has now for the first time received perfect 

 specimens^ remarks, the " spatha contains what is usually considered as a single 



