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here given was the original fruticans of Linnzus, and so Thunberg understood it, but Will- 
denow has judged otherwise, and has made this. the grandiflorum and the grandiflorum of Thun- 
berg his fruticans. We wish some one who has access tou the Linnean herbarium would de- 
termine these plants. 3. Pontederia di/atata; first described and figured in Symes’s Embassy 
to Ava, if it be realiy distinct from hastata, 4 Gardenia radicans, with a double flower. 
5. Oxylobium cordifolium A new genus among the numerous race of papilionaceous plants of 
New Holland. It comes nearest te Gompholobium, but the legumen is sharp pointed, froma 
_ which circumstance its name has been given (o%c¢ AcSe¢). It is a pretty little shrub, almost 
constantly in flower, and ripens its seeds very readily with us, but has rather a rigid rough 
aspect, 
In Paradisus Londinensis we have, 1. Pancratium zeylanicum of Linnzus here called tiaras 
forum, a very apposite name, but we have repeatedly borne our testimony against changing 
established names. This rare plant is from the collection of Thomas Evans, esq. of Stepney. 
2. Magnolia gracilis, the tomentosa of Thunberg, Kobus of Kempfer, according to Mr. Salis- 
bury ; but Thunberg describes this plant as having white flowers, whereas it is represented 
here with purple, and does not strike us as materially different from the Magnolia purpurea of 
Curtis’s Magazine. 3. Bouvardia triphy/la: the Houstonia coccinea of our nurserymen, but 
which Mr. Salisbury has very satisfactorily shown not to belong either to Houstonia or Ixora, 
to which last it had been referred by Jacquin and Cavanilles, It is named in honour of 
Dr. Charles Bouvard, superintendant of the Jardin Royal, at Paris, in the infancy of that 
establishment. 
The English Botany for last moyth, except Lichens and Confervas, contains nothing but 
four species of willow. ©1. Salix fragilis. 2. Russelliana. 3. arenariz. 4. glauca; of 
which the second is a new species. Nothing can be more grateful to the botanist, than to 
_ receive a satisfactory explanation of such large and difficult genera: when Dr. Smith shall 
have gone through the English species, we apprehend that it will be no very difficult task 
to complete the description of the genus, as far, at least, as respects the European species. 
NATURALIST’s MONTHLY REPORT. 
See Winter comes to rule the varied year, 
Sullen and sad, with ail his rising train 5 
Vapours, and clouds, and storms. 
BETWIXT the 18th of October and the 18th of November, the weather has been very 
variable. For some days at first it was unusually hot. It then became cloudy and damp. 
In the night of Monday, the 26th of October, we hada heavy storm of wind and rain, from 
the south west. On Tuesday, the 2d of November, we had another from the south, which 
lasted for three or four hours: during this time the wind was higher than I have almost ever 
remembered it ; and the rain poured down in torrents. On the 12th and i3th we had a very 
severe frost, and, on the latter day, a considerable fall of snow: the wind was in the east, 
from which quarter it continued to blow till the 17th, when it veered to the south-west and 
and the weather became milder and more pleasant. 
In my last Report J remarked that I believed all the Hirundines had then Jeft us, as at the 
time of writing the report, I had not seen any of the species for several days past. On the 24th 
of the same month, however, I saw three swallows; but these were the last that I observed. 
October 24, The white jasmine ( jasminum officinale of Linnzeus), the whore-flowered 
sage (salvia verticillate), officinal comfrey (symphyium officinale), and meadow fatiron (Col- 
chicum autumnale), continue still in flower. Several of tle woodbines are now in flower for 
the second time, 
October 30. This was a warm and delightful day. The bees were flying about in great 
numbers 5 and, in the gardens, I remarked two or three different species of moths, in consi- 
derable abundance, flitting round and alighting upon the arbutus trees, which were full in 
bloom. Flies of different kinds were also very numerous upon the flowers of the Michaelmas 
daisies, 
The holly is a shrub that usually flowers in or about the month of May. But a variegated 
holly which was removed in the spring, had its flowering checked, and is ‘now in great beau- 
ty. The ivy is also now in full flower. It seldom indeed happens that these two shrubs are 
. bloom at the same time, although the berries are always (about Christmas) ripe toges 
ther. 
November 1. ‘The leaves of the oak and elm are turned dry and brown, and a great many 
of them, but particularly of the elm, are shed. The ash, lime, hazel, and sycamore trees 
are nearly all stripped of their foliage. 
Primroses and polyanthuses have for some days been in flower in the gardens. 
Snipes are returned to the marshes. The Royston crows are also returned, and occasione 
ally to be seen about the sea sands in considerable numbers. 
November 
