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femina nobilissima et ornatissima, cujus in gratiam Nym^haeam 

 Budgeanam nostram nominavimus, omnes icones ad opus mariti, 

 cui titulus Plantarum Gujanae icones et descriiotiones Jiactenus in- 

 editae. Lond. Vol. 1. 1805. pertinentes, summa artis laude concin- 

 navit. Quarum iconum elegantissimarum indolem habitumque 

 naturae fidissimum, an exactitudinem botanicam qua delineatae 

 sunt, magis admireris, vix constare videtur. Ad secundam etiam 

 partem operis dicti icones jam ab ea confectae sunt. Nee non 

 delineationes in Vol. X. Transact. Societ. Linn, ab commentationem 

 A Description of several Species of Plants from Neio Holland, 

 p. 283 tradidit. 



Domina Maria Turner, uxor viri clarissimi de re botanica 

 meritissimi Dawsoni Turner Yarmouthi, femina varia multi- 

 plicique rerum cognitione imbuta, in edenda quam supra memora- 

 vimus Fucologia delineationibus elegantissimis, quibus eam conde- 

 coravit, eximiam laudem reperit. Tabulae quas delineavit et 

 accuratissimis fructificationis partium analysibus illustravit, literis 

 M. T. inscriptae sunt, et ad optimas operis pertinent, [conf. tab. 

 100. 136. 140. 141. 145. 151. 157. 166. 171. 194. etc.) 



Filiae ejus amabiles Maria Turner, conjux Celeberrimi Hooker 

 Halesworthi et Elisabetha Turner Yarmouthi parentium non 

 modo ingenium, verum etiam cultum et eruditionem referunt. Ab 

 ineunte aetate alterioribus literis artibusque deditse, botanices 

 etiam studium coluerunt. Domina Hooker plures novos muscos 

 invenit, et tam ea ipsa quam soror supra memorata magnam 

 copiam iconum hucusque ineditarum muscorum frondosorum et 

 hepaticorum partim delineaverunt, partim per matrem in chalco- 

 graphia eruditae aeri inciderunt. 



Praeter nobiles feminas, quas insigni modo de re botanica 

 meritas hie nominatim exhibere nobis licuit, in opere Britanniae 

 maximum decus adferente, quod inscriptum English Botany, or 

 coloured Figures of British Plants, etc. auct. Edw. Smith et Jam. 

 SowERBY, vol. i-xxxiv. London 1 780 seq. plura exempla commem- 

 orata leguntur, quibus feminae, plantis rarioribus observatis vel 

 communicatis libri editoribus faverunt. 



SHORT NOTES. 



Allium sph^rocephalum L. — As there seems to be a some- 

 what general idea amongst botanists that Allium sphcerocephalum 

 is never bulbiferous, and as it is bulbiferous, viviparous, and cap- 

 suliferous, the following statement may be of interest. Many 

 years ago I collected on a rocky slope at Martigny (Switzerland) 

 some plants of this species with the bulbs. There were no bulbils 

 in the flower-heads. I grew them in my garden (rich loam) in 

 which there were no other Alliums. The next year all the flower- 

 heads except one were bulbiferous or viviparous, in some instances 

 mixed with a few flowers. I wrote to the Eev. E. F. Linton, who 

 said that A. vineale L. must have got into the garden. As I was 

 my own gardener, I knew that it was not so, but there the matter 



