360 Companion to the Botanical Magazine^ §*c. 



II. Botany. 

 The communications under this head are limited to a few short 

 notices. I. On Lamiurn intermedium, and 2. Fedia carinata, by 

 Mr Leighton : 3. On Alyssum calycinum, and 4. Leucojum vernum 

 by Mr. Brown. It would appear not improbable, from a note of 

 Mr Brown's in p. 447, that the Betula intermedia is a native on the 

 Clova hills, where it has been mistaken for B. alba. The point is 

 deserving the attention of our Scottish friends. 



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



Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. (Continued 



from p. 276. Vol. ii.) 



This Number (the 24th of the work) completes the second vo- 

 lume ; and as we have received our August and September num- 

 bers of the Magazine, but without its worthy " Companion," we 

 feel somewhat uneasy, and sincerely trust that it has not altogether 

 ceased, for want of encouragement and support. 



The contents of the number are, Notes upon some genera and spe- 

 cies of South American Orchide8e,by John Lindlkv, Ph.D. F. R. S. 

 Chrysorhoe, a new genus of Chamselaucieae, by the same au- 

 thor. Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor ; or a specimen 



of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand, by Allan Cunning- 

 ham, continued from last number, contains the Hepaticae, Lycopodia- 

 ceae, the Felices verae, and a portion of the Plantae vasculares. Two 

 figures of Loxoma Cunninghamii, a new species belonging to the 

 Polypodiacese, are given ; the one, illustrating the fructification, is 

 beautifully executed by F. Bauer. Botanical information con- 

 tains a list of the species figured in the two last parts of the " Icones 



Plantarum." Some remarks by Dr Wright, copied from the 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, relative to the descrip- 

 tions of Dr Graham, from Colonel Walker's specimens. Dr Wright 

 leaves the matter of the identity of the plants still uncertain, but is 

 of opinion that Dr Graham's plants have been introduced to the Isl- 

 and of Ceylon, and are not indigenous. 



Periodicals — Foreign. 

 Annates des Sciences Naturelles. Zoologie, MM. vVuDOLnN et 

 Milne-Edwards. JBotanique, MM. Ad. Brongniabt et Guil- 

 LEMiN. Crochard and Co. Paris, Janvier 1837.- 



I. Zoology. 

 Becherches sur quelques Entozoaires et lav ves parasites des insee- 

 tes Orthopteres et Hynienopteres, par Leon Dufour. Professor 



