GALLS AND MUSTARD PLANT OF THE HOLY LAND. 
36®. 2. P. mMncafa attains a height of 40 feet. 
It was found at San Luis Obispo in latitude 
35°. at an elevation of 3000 feet. 3. P. radi~ 
ata found about Monterey in latitude 
36°, near the level of the sea, and growing 
almost close to the beach. It affords excel- 
lent timber, which is very tough and admira- 
bly adapted for building boats. 4. P. 
tuberculata, resembling in position and ap- 
pearance the preceding. 5. P. hracteata 
was found growing on the sea side of 
the mountain range of St. Lucia, about 
1000 feet lower than P. Coulteri. The trunk 
rises to the height of 120 feet, not exceeding 
2 feet in circumference and as straignt as.au 
arrow. 
SOME ACCOUNT OP THE GA.LLS 
FOUND ON A SPECIES OF OAK, 
FROM THE SHORES OF THE DEAD 
SEA. 
By AYLMER Bourke Lambert, Esq., 
F. R. S., V. P. L. S. 
This paper contains a description with 
figures of some galls brought from the Holy 
Land by the Hon. R. Curzen, and which the 
author considers to be the “ mala insana,” 
or apples of Sodom of history. They 
grow on the Q vercus infectoria, a tree 
which grows abundantly in Syria, i he insect 
which tbrms them has been named by Olivier 
J)iplolepis. When on the tree the galls 
are of a rich purple, and are varnished over 
with a light substance of the consistence of 
honey, shining with a most brilliant lustre in 
the sun, which makes them look like a most 
delicious and tempting fruit. 
NOTE ON THE MUSTARD PLANT OF 
THE SCRIPTURE. 
By Mu. Lambert. 
The author considers this plant to be the 
same as that daily used among us. He con- 
ceives that the expression “ less than all the 
seeds that be in the earth,” used in Scripture 
was used comparatively and meant nothing 
more than a small seed. Captains Irby and 
Mangles have informed the author that our 
mustard plant, the sinapis nigra, grows in 
the Holy Land as high as their horses heads, 
and other travellers have seen it growing to 
the height of 10 feet. 
ON SEVERAL NEW OR IMPERFECTLY 
UNDERSTOOD BRITISH AND EURO- 
PEAN PLANTS. 
By C. C. Babington, F. L. S., &c. 
1. HERNIARIA HIRSUTA, has been 
fouhd only at Colney Hatch Barnet, by 
Hudson, and Milne, and Gordon, but not 
since 1793. 
2. H. GLABRA. — Near Newmiarket, Rev. 
Mr. Herosted. The description • under this 
title in Hooker’s Flora applies to H. ciliaia. 
3. H. CILIATA. — Lizard point, Ray and 
Borrer. 
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4. CREPIb VIRENS. — Common on walls, 
&c. This plant has usually been confounded 
with C, tectorum, which does not appear to 
be a native of this country. It is distin- 
guished from by its ” very long fruit, 
equalling the pappus : attenuated above, its 
ribs rough ; the margin also of the upper 
leaves is revolute, that not being the case in 
C. virens.'” 
5. C. BIENNIS. — Tnvolucrura, ovate, ob- 
long, both when in flower and seed, not be- 
coming ventricose as in C. virens. 
6. ERICA TEI'RALlX. Seems branch- 
ed only towards the base. Leaves and sepals 
linear, lanceolate, downy, their margins 
secured so as almost to meet behind. 
7. E. MACKAIANA, N. S. — Fol qua,tern. 
ovat. ciliat. supra glabris, floribus capitat. 
pedicellatis, sepalis ovat. ciliat. glabris, pe- 
dicellis piles, et comentosis, corolla oblong, 
ovatis, antheris anstat. inclusis, stylo exser- 
to.— Distinguished from E. Teiralix by 
the form and structure of its leaves and 
sepals, the glabrous upper surface of the 
former, and its total difference in habit. It 
agrees with E. ciliuris in the character 
ot its foliage, but differs from that plant by 
haying anthers awned. Gathered by the 
author on Craigha Moira, Connamara, Ire- 
land, in August, 1835. Mr. McCalla, of 
Roundstoae, directed his attention to it, as 
beim;, perhaps, a new British heath. It is 
nameu utcer iMr. M > ckay, of Dublin. Some 
botanists consider it as a variety of E. 
Tetralix. ' 
8. POLYGONUM MARITIMUM.— 
Christchurchhead, towards Muddiford Bor- 
r°r ; Keime Bay, Jersey. Mr. W. C. 
Trevelyan. 
9. IL RATI. — Intermediate between P. 
Maritimum and aviculare. The P. aviculare 
of Hook. Brit. Flora. 
10. B. DUMETORUM— Wood at Wimble- 
don : Mr. .) . A. I laukev. 
11. P. CONVOLVULUS.— Improved de- 
scription by the author. 
12. EUPHORBIA PILOSA.— E. pilosa Q 
of Hooker. ^ 
13. EUPHORBIA CORALLOXIDES — 
E pilosa a of Plooker : naturalized at Hen- 
fold, Sussex. 
14. HA BEN ART A CHLORANTMA- 
Orchis bifolia a of Smith. 
15. H. BlPt/LIA. — 0. bifolia ^ of 
Smith. 
16. H. FORNICA PA— . A distinct species, 
having its anther rounded at the tip and 
hooded, and the cells parallel; plant smaller 
than H. bifolm. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE SPECIES 
OF FEDIA. 
By Joseph Woods, Esq., F. L. S. 
This genus was originally made from the 
varieties of the Linnean species, Valeriana 
locusta, being separated from Valeriana by 
habit as well as by the want of a feathery 
crown to the seed. The name comes from 
Hoedus, or Foedus, a kid, and was introduced 
