THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, December 1 , 1857, 
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CEANOTHUS CUNEATUS. 
Raised from seeds received from Hartweg in June, 1848, 
marked Ceanothus sp., with white flowers, a shrub six or 
eight feet high, from the Sacramento mountains. It is tender, 
and will not live in the open border. It flowers in May. 
This shrub is described as follows, by Mr. Nuttall :—“ A 
shrub six to ten feet high, with somewhat thorny greyish terete 
branches, very closely interwoven, sometimes forming thickets. 
Leaves half an inch or more in length, and about two lines 
wide; very rarely with one or two teeth near the extremity ; 
the numerous regular, simple, and oblique veins rather con¬ 
spicuous on the lower surface. Flowers in small axillary 
umbels : the peduncles and pedicels increasing in length as 
the fmit ripens. Calyx and corolla white : petals cucullate, 
unguiculate. Styles united above the middle, and then 
spreading. Fruit as large as an ordinary pea, Sub-globose ; 
the exocarp somewhat pulpy, with three rather soft horn-iike 
projections from the summit of the angles : the coherent base 
of the calyx unusually large. Seeds, even on both sides, black, 
polished. The whole plant (like several succeeding species) 
exhales a balsamic odour, and the mature fruit is covered with 
a bitter varnish.” 
It is said to grow as far north as “the dry gravelly islands 
and bars of the Wahlamut river above the falls,” in Oregon; 
but it is best known from more southern regions ; Hartweg’s 
discovery of it in California having been anticipated by the 
naturalists with Capt. Beechev, and by Dr. Coulter, of whose 
dried plants it is No. 110. In our gardens it betrays a 
tender climate, for it is far more impatient of cold than the 
other Californian species, than which it is much less attractive; 
for its scanty white flowers produce a shabby appearance, for 
which the leaves and scrubby aspect of the species do not 
compensate .—(Horticultural Society's Journal.) 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
The November Meeting of the Entomological ! 
Society, was held on the 2nd inst., and was very fully 
attended. The chair being occupied by the President, 
W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., Treasurer of the Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, &c. The donations received since 
the last meeting comprised the publications of the 
Society of Arts, the Dublin Natural History Review, 
(containing some valuable Entomological Memoirs,) 
and the 2nd Yolume of Mr. Stainton’s fine work on 
the Transformations of the minute Moths belonging 
to the family Tineidse, the present volume being de- i 
voted to the species belonging to the genus Litho- 
colletes, the larvae of which reside within the leaves of 
various plants, forming galleries or blotches, by the 
consumption of the vegetable matter, leaving the two 
surfaces of the leaves entire. 
Dr. J. E. Gray, of the British Museum, exhibited 
living specimens of the case-bearing Caterpillars of a 
large Australian species of Oiketicus (a genus of Moths 
belonging to the family of Psychidae), the transforma¬ 
tions of which had been described by Mr. Saunders, | 
in the transactions of the Entomological Society, and j 
had been fully illustrated by Mr. Westwood in his 
memoir on these insects in the Proceedings of the 
Zoological Society. 
The President stated, that he had received a box 
from Australia, coated over with the thick cases of l 
this species, cut open and laid flat, with the long bits j 
of stick arranged almost symmetrically on the outside, 
still remaining on the surface. 
Dr. Gray also exhibited a curious species of Gall, 
from Ischl, in Austria, found by Miss Wame, on a 
species of oak, the texture of which resembled pale 
green kid. Also, specimens of another curious small 
Gall, found onRose trees, near West Wickham, nearly 
of a globular shape, but armed with several short co¬ 
nical points ; together with the species of Eurytoma, 
reared from the last-named Gall; and which, although 
belonging to a family of parasitic insects, was con¬ 
sidered by Dr. Gray to be the true maker of the Gall. 
Mr. Walker stated that he had found the Devon¬ 
shire Ink Gall, at Mill Hill, in which locality several j 
of the oak trees had been inoculated in the preceding 
year by Mr. E. Smith, of the British Museum. 
Dr. Gray stated that he had found it at Newport, 
in the Isle of Wight, so that it was evidently extending 
in an eastward direction. 
Mr. Wollaston exhibited specimens of the very 
beautiful Beetle, Chrysomela Cerealis, from Snowdon ; 
and called attention to the peculiarities of the wings 
of this and of allied species; suggesting the ad¬ 
vantages resulting from setting one specimen, at least, 
of each species with the wings displayed. 
Mr. Westwood stated that it had been the constant 
practice, both of the late Mr. Stephens and himself, to 
adopt this practice in their collections: that of the 
former now forming part of the National Museum; 
and that of the latter incorporated with the Hopeian 
Collection at Oxford. 
Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a number of beautiful 
Moths and other insects recently received from More- 
ton Bay, Australia, where they were collected by Mr. 
Diggles, who has paid great attention to the transfor¬ 
mations of Australian Lepidoptera ; also, a number of j 
fine Beetles from Delagoa Bay, South Africa, collected 
by Mr. Plant. 
The Rev. Hamlet Clark exhibited two new British 
species of Water Beetles, from the Orkneys and the 
north of Scotland. 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited the nest of a species of 
Mud Wasp, belonging to the genus Pelopceus from 
North America ; the cells of which contained immature 
