Companion to Botanical Magazine. 289, 
stone of WorcestersMre, and Herefordshire, &c. by JABEZ ALLIES, Esq. one of the 
council of the Worcestershire Natural History Society, &c. A critique on 
a work we have not seen, and unconnected with Entomology. 5. New group 
of Orthoptera, Family Mantides, by M. A. LE FEBVRE, (extracted from the An- 
nales de la Societe Entomologique de France. ) The curious insect here noti- 
cid was found by the author in the Egyptian deserts, where no other insect upon 
which it might prey could be detected, and where the desert is entirely devoid 
of vegetation 6. A list of the Coleoptera, taken in the county of Suther- 
land in June 1834, by Mr J. WILSON, F. R. S. E. &c 7. Entomological 
notes, by W. E. THUCKARD. Among these an instance of curious hermaphro- 
ditism, or rather monstrosity, in Anthophora retusa, Linn, the captive of Hy- 
leccetus dermestoides, Fab. in Sherwood Forest, and Carabus intricatus upon 
Horsley Downs. 8. List of Entomological works 9. Varieties. 
Companion to the Botanical Magazine. By SIR W. J. HOOKER, 
Professor of Bot. in the Un. of Glasgow. Parts xiii. xiv. (com- 
mencing Vol. ii.) 8vo. Curtis, London, 1836. 
We take the opportunity of the commencement of a second volume of this 
work, to begin our regular notice of the contents ; and to those who are ac- 
quainted with the " Botanical Miscellany," and the " Journal of Botany" by the 
same author, of which it is a continuation, it is needless to say more than that 
it is a worthy " companion." It commenced twelve months since, and is in- 
tended to contain " such interesting botanical information as does not come 
within the prescribed limits of the Magazine ;" that is, Curtis's Botanical Ma- 
gazine ; and it can be procured either as a separate monthly periodical, or stitch- 
ed up under the same cover with that work. 
No. xiii. commences with " botanical information," from a part of which we 
learn that Mr George Gardener sailed on 20th of May last from Liverpool for 
Rio de Janeiro, with the intention of travelling in South America as a botanical 
collector. " The Organ Mountains, so rich in orchideous plants, will probably 
be the spot where he will commence his researches ; but the chief field of in- 
vestigation will not be fixed till his arrival in Brazil. Preference will be given to 
those parts of South America which have been the least explored, and the names 
of such botanists as intend taking collections of specimens from him at the mo- 
derate rate of L. 2 the hundred species, is already considerable, so that we have 
every reason to believe he will meet, in the fullest extent, with the encou- 
ragement to which his great enthusiasm so justly entitles him. The specimens 
ticketed in all the collections will be marked with corresponding numbers, which 
numbers will be referred to when the lists of the species come to be published ; 
as they will be with all convenient speed. Mr Gardener, shortly before his de- 
parture, published " Musci Britarmici," or pocket Herbarium of Species of British 
Mosses, containing a collection of from 200 to 250 species. A few copies remain 
still for sale in charge of Mr Murray, curator of the Glasgow Botanical Garden. 
Synopsis of the Hemimerideae, a tribe of the Scrophulariaceae, by George 
Beritham Lacis ceratophylla, with a figure, (the Podostemum ceratophyllus of 
Michaux,) a very singular plant, growing and flowering under water, attached to 
the stones at the bottoms of the North American rivers. Dr Hooker, in his de- 
scription of this plant, of which he has now for the first time received perfect 
specimens, remarks, the " spatha contains what is usually considered as a single 
