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Reviews. 



IJuly, 



Europe in Pliny's time. The following are supposed to be the species 

 of oak known to the ancients : — 



Quercus. 



Fruits. 



Leaves. 



Ancient Names. Modern Names. 





i Deciduous 



Kobur . 



Kobur. 



Appearing the 1st 



., 



Esculus 



Esculus. 



year • . .* 



Persistent 



Ilex . 



Ilex and coccifera. 





[ „ 



Suber . 



Suber. 





(Deciduous • 



Hemeris 



Toza. 



The 2nd year , • 



1 , 

 1 Persistent 



Cerris . 

 Halephl 



Cerris. 

 bus . Pseudo-suber ? 





I 



JEgilops 



iEgilops. 



And the following are the species of 



fir named by Pliny and 



Theophrastus : — 









Leaves in pairs 



Pinaster . 





Pinus halepensis, or maritiuia. 



!> * 



Tseda . 







„ mugho. 



• 



Picea 







„ laricio. 



» )> " 



Pitms 







„ pinea. 



Leaves in fives 



Strobus? 

 Excelsa t 



(! 





„ cembra. 



Solitary, Evergreen . 



Abies 







Abies pectinata. 



>» » • 



. „ gallica . 





„ excelsa. 



Fascicled, deciduous 



Larix 







Larix. 



In the second lecture, the author considers the trees not included by 

 Pliny under the head of Piciferse, Cedar, Juniper, Citrus, Cupressus, 

 and Taxus, as well as others, such as the lime, maple, thorn, ash, elm, 

 alder, willow, poplar, birch, plane, &c. 



In speaking of the Cedar of Lebanon, the author repeats an apo- 

 cryphal story in regard to its introduction into the Jar din des Plantes 

 from the Holy Land, in 1737, by Bernard de Jussieu. A romantic 

 account is given of the difficulty this naturalist experienced in convey- 

 ing it to France, owing to the tempestuous weather and contrary 

 winds he experienced, which drove his vessel out of its course, and 

 prolonged the voyage so much, that the water began to fail. All on 

 board were consequently put upon short allowance ; the crew, having 

 to work, being allowed one glass of water daily, the passengers only 

 half that quantity. Jussieu, from his attachment to botany, was in- 

 duced to abridge even this small daily allowance, by sharing it with 

 his plant, and by this heroic act of self-sacrifice, succeeded in keeping 

 it alive till they reached Marseilles. Here, however, all his pains 

 seemed likely to be thrown away, for as he had been driven, by want 

 of a flower-pot, to plant it in his hat, he excited, on landing, the sus- 

 picion of the custom-house officers, who at first insisted on emptying 

 the strange pot, to see whether any contraband goods were therein 



* Only mentioned once by Pliny, lib. xii. 40, as used in fumigations. It 

 seems rather rash to identify it, as Fraas has done, with the modern Cembra. 



t Identified by Dr. Hooker with the Pinus Pence of Griesbach, which that 

 botanist bad noted on Mount Peristeri, in Macedonia, and had considered as inter- 

 mediate between P. cembra and P. strobus. 



The P. excelsa, so common in the Himalayas, has not been observed nearer to 

 Greece than Afghanistan, a distance of more than 2,200 miles. 



