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Pyrausta anguinalis 
„ octomaculalis 
Asopia flammealis 
Prodelia literalis 
Ebulea cilialis 
Stenia punutalis 
Hydrocampa Letnnalis 
„ Stratiotalis 
„ Potamogalis 
„ Nym pineal is 
Botys glabralis 
„ pandalis 
„ flavalis 
„ hyalinalis 
„ verticalis 
„ lancealis 
„ fuscalis 
„ tervealis 
Mecyna asinalis 
Botys Urticalis 
Ebulea crocealis 
,, verbascalis 
„ sambuealis 
Pionea forfiealis 
„ margaritalis 
„ stramentalis 
Spilodes sticticalis 
„ palealis 
„ cinctalis 
Scopula alpinalis 
„ etialis 
„ olivalis 
„ prunalis 
„ ferrugalis 
61. „ decrepitalis 
62. Nola cucullalis 
63. „ cristulalis 
64. „ strigulalis 
65. Simaethis Fabriciana 
66. „ pariana 
67. „ scinlillulana 
68. Stenopteryx hybridalis. 
In the above list the names used are 
those in Doubleday’s Catalogue. — H. T. 
Stainton; Feb. 10, 1858. 
System and Method. — Botany, that 
is to say Systematic Botany, if the mere 
elements of it are mastered, enables a man 
to trace the name of an unknown plant, 
to learn what country it comes from, and 
for what purposes, if any, it is used. It 
invests with interest everything in the 
gardener’s care, and furnishes a guide to 
the use of the books in which the whole 
history of the plant is recorded. Not 
that systematic Botany has no other im- 
portance ; a still greater perhaps is its 
accustoming a young man to method, in 
the absence of which all other qualities 
lose their value. He whose mind is 
trained to the classification of plants 
will unconsciously acquire the invaluable 
habit of classifying his ideas, of keeping 
his papers, his house, his tools, his 
everything in order. To him indeed 
confusion of any kind becomes as painful 
as with others il is habitual and un- 
avoidable, to the disgust of their em- 
ployers and the serious injury of their own 
prospects in life. There never yet was a 
good systematic naturalist who was what 
is termed “a muddler.” So with other 
branches of Natural History, especially 
with Entomology; for nothing can be 
more certain than that the intolerable 
mischief produced by insects, the gar- 
dener’s greatest enemies, is often iu the 
main ascribable to the absence of exact 
ideas of their habits of life. — Gardener's 
Chronicle; Feb. 6. 
CAPTURES OF MOTHS ON SALLOWS. 
The following passage in the ‘ Ento- 
mologist,’ at p. 102, was one of the earliest 
notices of the value of sallow blossoms 
to the collector of Lepidoptera. It has 
probably never been seen by many of our 
readers, and at this season of the year, 
when so many are anxiously watching 
the swelling of the pussy calkins of the 
sallow (sallows are the broad-leaved wil- 
lows, and in many parts of the country 
