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pyrifera from 500 to 1500 feet in length. Algae were formerly sup¬ 
posed to be produced naturally in the water by congelation. They 
purify the water in which they grow, converting what would be a 
nuisance, into wholesome drink. They are increased by sporules, 
which may be divided to an almost incredible degree. 
9. Fungi, Mushrooms, &c. called by Linnaeus Nomades, or Wan¬ 
derers, from the apparent capricious and diversified selection of the 
places of their growth. The structure of these plants, is more sim¬ 
ple than that of Algae, consisting of little else but cellular tissue. 
They are increased by sporules, which are so numerous, that in a 
small piece of smut, not larger than a pin’s head, there have been 
found no less than six millions of sporules, and in a single individual 
of Reticularia maximum. Fries counted above ten millions, so subtle 
as to resemble thin smoke.— Lecture 1. 
Aug. 24th, 1834. (To be continued.) 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
ARTICLE XII.—REMARK AND ANSWER. 
The Editor of the Gardener s Magazine on the subject of the 
Bygrave Plant Preserver. —In number 39, of the Horticultural 
Register, page 407, you assert that figure 17, page 37, Vol. viii. of 
the Gardener s Magazine, is the Bygrave Plant Preserver, figured in 
Vol. I. p. 151 of the Hort. Reg. though it is expressly stated in the 
Gard. Mag. that it is figured from a specimen sent to me by Mr. 
Allardyce. In reply to this unwarranted assertion on your part, I 
beg leave to state that the pan, from which my figure was taken, is 
still in my possession. It was sent to me by Mr. Allerdyce, a potter, 
and brickmaker, in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, a gentleman, 
who has contributed several other articles to the Gardener s Magazine. 
I received the pan in question, April 28th, 1831, (before the Hort. 
Reg. was commenced,) as my Register book will prove, though ab¬ 
sence from home, and other causes, prevented me from inserting a 
figure of it for some time afterwards. 
I think it proper to state these particulars, and to request you to 
give them publicity, in justice to Mr. Allardyce, whose friends might 
otherwise think that I had taken an unjustifiable liberty with his 
name. J. C. Loudon. 
Baysivater, Sept. 2, 1834. 
If the above statement had been made in the Gardener's Magazine, Vol VIII, 
page 37, when the figure of the pan was inserted, we should have had reason to 
suppress the assertion made in our Register page 407, but as the figure appeared 
in our work in October, 1831, and in Mr. Loudon’s, in January, 1832, there was 
time sufficient to have pans made from our pattern, by any gentleman who might 
choose to send one for insertion in the Gardener's Magazine. With regard to 
the dependence to he placed on assertions made in the Gard. Mag., we have only 
to refer the readers of it to Vol. X, page 231, on the subject of Jesse’s Mode of 
Planting Trees, and to our answer to the same, Hort. Reg., page 407, of the cur 
rent Volume. 
T. H A R UC ASTLE PRINTER, CH (J RCH-STREET, S H K KKl El.t). 
