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wrote, might, we think, be a little qualified in a 

 " revised" work. 



However, we have said it is questionable how far 

 an author's work should be amended, and we have 

 only to say that those who have not Bridgeman's 

 work in their collection, will find this edition the 

 handsomest and best that has been issued. 



Texas Geological Survey ; Preliminary Report : 

 by S. B. Buckley, 1866. 



We are indebted to the author for a copy of this 

 interesting pamphlet, from which it appears that 

 the mineral and agricultural resources of the State 

 are equal to the most favored of the older States, 

 and foreshadows a brilliant career for Texas as soon 

 as her mdustrial resources shall have become pro- 

 perly developed. 



The Cultivation of the Grape : by A. M. 



Burns, Manhattan, Kansas. 



A small tract, showing what has been done, and 

 what may be, with the grape, in Kansas — a very 

 favorable view. 



The American Naturalist ; a Popular Illustrated 

 Magazine of Natural History : Published monthly 

 by the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. 

 The object of this Journal is to supply a long 

 existing demand for a popular illustrated magazine 

 of natural history, devoted to the exposition of 

 scientific topics in a free and familiar manner, with- 

 out those technicalities which often render the mass 

 of such reading tedious and difiicult. Such a ma- 

 gazine is required, and we hope it will meet with 

 encouragement from a large number of readers, 

 when issued. 



HfId enb fhnh. 



In the August number of the Botanical Maga- 

 azine are figures and descriptions of the following : — 



Kleinia fulgens. — An interesting succulent, 

 sufFruticose composite, sent from Port Natal to W. 

 W. Saunders, Esq., F.B.S. It attains a height of 

 two to three feet ; the leaves obovate-oblong, bluntly 

 serrate, and glaucous. The flower-heads are an inch 

 and a half long, the florets bright vermilion-orange. 



Fremontia Californica. — A singular and beau- 

 tiful hardy shrub from California ; first flowered by 

 Messrs. Yeitch in June of the present year. It 

 was discovered during Colonel Fremont's United 

 States Expedition to the Bocky Mountains in 1846. 

 The botanical characters of the plant are anomalous, 



and it is an open question whether it shall be re- 

 ferred to the order Malvaceae or Sterculiaceas. In 

 its native country it is a woody shrub, resembling 

 a fig tree ; the leaves three to seven lobed, peduncles 

 one flowered ; the flowers numerous, golden-yellow, 

 two to two and a half inches in diameter.: " It is 

 undoubtedly the choicest early-flowering shrub in- 

 troduced of late years, and more than rivals the \ 

 Forsythias in many respects," | 



Fernandesia robusta. — This is the largest of 

 this genus of orchids ; it is a native of Guatemala, 

 and is nearly related to the Brazilian F. rohusta, 

 from which it differs in being larger in all its parts. 

 The leaves are keeled, an inch and a half long, pe- 

 duncles drooping, one-flowered ; the flowers two- 

 thirds of an inch long, bright yellow, barred and 

 spotted on the lower portion af the hp with red. 



Sempervivum Paiv^. — This house leek was 

 brought to the Royal Gardens by the Rev. R. T. 

 Lowe, M. A. , F. L. S. , who discovered it in the island 

 of Gomera, one of the Canary group. The species 

 belongs to the same group as S. urbicum^ S. cilia- 

 tmn, and S. Haworthn. It is a straggling, tortu- 

 ously branched, low shrub ; leaves one inch to two 

 and a half inches long, highly glaucous ; panicle 

 terminal, six to eight inches long, and broad ; flowers 

 rather large, green, scentless. 



Sanchezta nobilis. — A magificent Acanthace- 

 ous plant, discovered by Mr. Pearce in Ecuador in 

 1863, and flowered in Messrs. Yeitch' s nursery, 

 Chelsea, in June last. It is a stout, erect, herba- 

 ceous plant ; leaves three inches to nine inches long, 

 oblong-lanceolate ; inflorescence erect, terminal, and 

 forming a dense panicle of beautifully colored flow- 

 ers, the large bracts bright red, the tubular corollas 

 yellow. 



Saccolabium ampullaceum. — A pretty orchid 

 from Sylhet, quite distinct from any other species 

 known at present. It is of dwarf habit, not rising 

 more than six inches high, with a simple stem. 

 Leaves barely a span long, very thick, ligulate ; 

 flowers of a deep rose color, in erect, oblong, axillary 

 racemes. "Nothing can be more charming than 

 its bright rose-colored racemes, which are freely 

 produced, and last long in beauty." 



Pelargoniums, Bedding. — The following six 

 Zonale Geraniums were raised by Shirley Hibberd, 

 Esq., the eminent Horticulturist. It is well known 

 that this gentleman has for some years given his 

 close attention to this class of Bedding Plants, plant- 

 ing in his own experimental garden every kind that 

 has been raised, and carefully testing or proving 



