1807.) Naturatist’s MLontaly Report. | 103 
mate ita complete Pancratium. With regard to Hemanthus, however, we recommend to 
this ingenious botanist to re-consider whether H. mu/tiflorus and puniceus be really congeners of 
H. coccineus, of which they want the singular involacrum, and their radication appears to be 
totally different; for whilst in H. coccinews the roots issue from the base of the bulb, asin the 
tulip, squill, and most other bulbs, in the two first-mentioned species, they issue from the 
crown of the bulb, and are spread.over it ; or, at least, the inanner in which the new bulb ia 
formed, directly in the centre of the base of the old one, now entirely exhausted in nou- 
rishing the flowering scape, gives this remarkable appearance. 7. Allium striatum, a kind 
ef Garlick, which diifers from the other species in having none of the peculiur odour of the 
genus. We believe this plant has been pretty generally, but falsely, considered by the nurse- 
rymenas the Hypoxis erecta of Linneus. 
A folic plate of the Botanist’s Repository contains, 1. Aloe arborescens, one of the species 
which Linnzus considered as a variety of his perfoliata ; a name under which he certainly 
confounded several distinct plants. [t is one of the largest of the genus. 2. Protea:cora- 
mata, a new species of this very extensive genus, belonging to the division, to which Mr. Sa 
lisbury has given the name of Frodendrum. 3. Ophrys arachnoides, supposed by the author 
to be the O. aranifera of Hudson and English Botany; the O. fucifera of Curtis’s Flora Lon- 
dinensis. But this is a mistake, the plant here figured not having been ever yet observed to 
be indigenous to Britain. Itis the O. arachzites of Smith in his Tour on the Continent, 
vol. Il. p 295, and described by Haller in his Hist. Plant. No. 1266. 4. Ophrys muscifera, 
here called myodcs, native of this-country, and has long ago figured in the English Botany, 
aud, ag this author says, in the Botanical Magazine also, where we have, however, sought for 
it in vain. 3. Hibbertia crenata, the individual plant figured last month in the Paradisus 
Londinensis, and. called there Burtonia grossulariefolia. We are not certain, however, that 
Mr. Salisbury has done right in separating it from the genus Hibbertia 5 at least, we think 
these plants might have been suffered to remain united fur the present, till the expected 
publication by Brown on the Flora of New Holland shall have decided the question, or, at 
least, have furnished us with more data to judge from, than we at present possess. We do 
not, however, mean to applaud the ease with which the author of the Botanist’s Repository 
gets over all ditficulties, who refers Hibbertia voludilis to the order Pentagynia; but when he 
finds that this species has ten pistils, with the same ease refers the genus to the order Decae 
gynia In such an arrangement, two species of the same genus must be sought in different 
orders ! 
‘The Paradisus Londinensis offers for this month, 1. Leucoium pulchedlum. This is what 
is usually considered as the smaller variety of Leucoium estivum ; but which Mr. Haworth, 
an assiduous cultivator of bulbous plants, as well as Mr. Salisbury, considers ag a distinct spee 
sies, %. Euryspermum salicifolium, another genus erected by Mr. Salisbury from the Line 
nean Protea, to which he refers also Strobilina and pallens. 5. Erodéndrum fermosum, the same 
plant as is figured in the Repository, under the name of Protea coronata 
In English Botany tor July, besides two Fucuses and six Confervas, there occur, 1. Peu- 
cedanum officinale, a very rare umbelliferous plant, found on the cliffs near Whitstable, im 
Kenc, and by the river side, a little below Feversham. 9. Erodiunt cicutarium; one of the 
prettiest of the wild Geraniums, frequently seen to adorn the dry mud banks in the vicinity 
of London. 3. Trifolium repens, the white trefoil, or common Dutch clover, the Shaiarocie 
ef the Irish. 4%. Trifolium pratense, or common purple clover. 
. a a a A RET TS ER RS 
NATURALIST’s MONTHLY REPORT,  ~ 
From brightening fields of ether fair disclos’d, 
Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes, 
Tn pride of youth, and felt through Nature’s depth ¢ 
He comes attended by the sultry Hours, 
And ever-fanning breezes, on his way ; 
While, from this ardent look, the turning Spring 
Averts her blushful face 5 and earth, and skies, 
All-smiling to his hot dominion leaves, 
URING the whole of the last month (from the 19th of June to the 19th of July), there 
has been so little rain that, in all the dry and upland parts of Hampshire, vegetation seems 
to be nearly at astand. Some of the meadows and pastures are so brown as to have almost 
the appearance of plouglied fields. The evening treezes are, however, in general, cvol and 
refreshing ; and, with the exception of a few days, the weather, even in the day time, has not 
been particularly hot 5 
Glow-worms are seen every evening on the sides of banks, or about the bottoms of dry 
“hedges. The light contained within the two or three last rings of the abdomen of these ‘in- 
sects cannot be imparted to any other object so Jong as they continue alive and uninjured : 
but if, by any accident, they are crushed, their phosphorescence is jmmediately communicated 
te the surrounding objects, 
June 
