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unsullied fruit, impeded in his frolic sports, half angry, darts up the silvery bole 

 again, to peep and wonder at the strange intruder on his haunts. The jay 

 springs up, and, screaming, tells of danger to her brood, the noisy tribe repeat 

 the call, are hushed, and leave us ; the loud laugh of the woodpecker, joyous and 

 vacant ; the hammering of the nuthatch, cleaving its prize in the chink of some 

 dry bough ; the humble bee, torpid on the disc of the purple thistle, just lifts a 

 limb to pray forbearance of injury, to ask for peace, and bid us 



' Leave him, leave him to repose.' 



The cinquefoil, or the vetch, with one lingering bloom yet appears, and we note 

 it from its loneliness. Spreading on the light foliage of the fern, dry and mature, 

 the spider has fixed her toils, and motionless in the midst watches her expected 

 prey, every thread and mesh beaded with dew, trembling with the zephyrs 

 breath. Then falls the " sere and yellow leaf," parting from its spray without 

 a breeze tinkling in the boughs, and, rustling scarce audibly along, rests at our 

 feet, and tells us that we part too. All these are distinctive symbols of the 

 season, marked in the silence and sobriety of the hour ; and form, perhaps, a 

 deeper impression on the mind than any afforded by the verdant promises, the 

 vivacities of spring, or the gay profuse luxuriance of summer." 



Journal of a Naturalist. 



BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



DICOTYLEDONES. 



Clematis lathyrifolia. Bess. Lathyrus-leaved Clematis. Bot. Reg. t. 61. 

 This is a very showy species of Clematis, bearing a profusion of white flowers, 

 and nearly allied to C. angustifolia. The native country is not determined. Dr. 

 Lindley states that he has only seen it in the London Horticultural Society's 

 collection, where it was received from the late Mr. Fischer, of the Gottingen 

 Garden, under the name here adopted. 



Plants, however, have been grown in the garden of the Birmingham Botanical 

 and Horticultural Society for some years, received from the same source as 

 mentioned by Dr. Lindley, from which plants we have procured a specimen. 



It is hardy, and will grow in any garden soil. It spreads itself on the ground, 

 and therefore requires to be tied up to a stake ; and if planted in any situation, 

 will produce a pleasing effect. 



SOLANE/E. 



Fabiana imbricata. Ruiz et Pav. Imbricated Fabiana. Bot. Reg. t. 59. 

 This is a very delicate free-flowering plant, bearing snow-white blossoms. It was 



