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and Jarge quantities in the hands of our West India merchants, who now hourly expect a 
large fleet from Jamaica, as well as one from the Leeward Islands. 
COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 
May 3. | May 10. , May 17. Prices of Hops. 
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Hamburgh.. (34 9 +--+. 
Aflonatc.. 2454090 1)5 oe: 
Amsterdam |35 10 .... 
Paris, sia ss [240 weeding 
Leghorn....|493 «2.0. 
Naples ....]42 os wee. 
Genoa ....-|452 seeds. 
Lisbon 15s :s sedOO ere wwe 
Oporto ..-/63  s.eee- 
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The following are the average Prices of Canal Shares, &c. &c. May 21, 1808, at the 
Office of Messrs. L. Wolfe and Co! No. 9, Change-alley, Cornhill, ~—-London Dock Stock, 
1171. per cent. —East India ditto 120]. per cent.—West India ditto, 1531. per cent.—Com- 
mercial Dock Shares, 1261. per cent.—Grand Junction Canal, 971. per share.—Grand Surrey 
Canal, 631. per share.—Imperial Fire Insurance, 1121. per cent, premium. —Globe Fire and 
Life Insurance 1151. per cent.—Albion Fire and Life Insurance, 3]. per cent.—Hope Fire 
and Life Assurance, il 5s. per share premium.—Rock Life Assurance, 5s. per share pre- 
mium.-—East London Water Works, 601. per share premium.—South London Water Works, 
561. per share premium.—Golden ie Brewery, 80l. per share.——Weston-street, or South- 
wark Brewery, par.—London Institution, 85 Guineas per share.—Eagle Insurance, 5s. per 
share premium. 
The following are the average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Dock Stock, and Fire 
Office Shares, in May, 1808, at the Office of Mr. Scott, No, 28, New Bridge-street, Black- 
friars, London :—The Leeds and Liverpool Canal, 1721: ex. dividend—Grand Junction Shares, 
from 941. to 1001.—Grand Mortgage Bonds, O01. for 1001.—Kennet and Avon, original 
34 10... (54 10 ..|Bags.—Kent, 41. 4s. to 5L 16s. per cwt. 
Sussex, 41. to 51. 5s. per cwt. 
ye SEE =: ae Essex, 41, i5s. to 5]. 12s. per cwt. 
4931... /492 2... Pockeis.Kent, 4l. 6s. to 6l. 10s. per cwt. 
3 Sussex, 41. 16s. to 51. 10s. per cwt. 
455 2... /45% ....|—-- Farnham, 61. 5s. to. 101. per cwt. 
60 ....|60 ....| The average price of Raw Sugar, ending 
65 ....j65 ....:fith of May, 1808, is 37s. 5d. per cwt. 
11 ....110% .... lexclusive of duty. : 
Shares, 2il. to 221.—New ditto, 41. to 51. per Share premium—Croydon, 551.—Ellesmere, -_ 
541. to 55).—Grand Surrey, 601.—-West India Dock Stock, 1481. to 153). per cent.—-J.on- 
don Dock Stock, 1121. to 1161. per cent.—-Globe Insurance, i111. to 1121,—-Imperial As- 
surance, 1131. per cent. premium. 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
"THE number of the Paradisus Londinensis which we have received last, contains, 
Rosa simplicifolia, a rare and beautiful species with simple leaves and yellow flowers, ale 
ready described by Mr. Salisbury in his Prodromus, and here very well figured by Mr. Hooker. 
This species, the berberifolia of Pallas and Wilidenow, is a native of Persia and some neigh- 
bouring tracts of country, and was first noticed, from specimens of the late Michaux, in Jus- 
sieu’s Genera plantarum, where it is observed that the pair of pricklesat the base of each 
leaf is analogous tothe stipules of other species of the genus Rosa. Tu this, however, Mr. 
$. objects on account of their different insertion and their appearing in the same manner as R. 
Sracteata, which has stipules besides. Our own humble opinion is, that in genera with com- 
pound leaves, if a species occur in which these parts appear simple, we may consider such a 
deficiency as the result of perpetuated abortion ; and, indeed, we always, in these cases, dis- 
cover the faint effort of the reproductive power, whether it be so directed as to produce 
knotted joints, as in Jasminum simplicifolium, or appendages, such as the prickles at the base of 
the simple leaves of this rose. Mr. S. describes as Yorus the part which by Linnzus and 
others is called germen ; but calyx by Gertner. Did that new term apply equally well to 
the flowers of other plants as it does in this case, which isan extraordinary one, we confess 
we should congratulate Mr. S. on his discovery, and consider it as a very useful addition to 
botanical terminology ; but we still think that the term ca/yx, in some, and that of receptacle, 
in other cases, convey completely, and with less ambiguity, the idea which Mr. S. appears to - 
connect with that word. Nor, indeed, does Mr. S. prove faithful to his own Torus ; ; in the letter- 
press to the next plate, for instance, where he describes the nectaries as inserted in the recepta~ ~ 
cle, which can mean nothing but the Torus. It is perhaps an error of the press enly, that 
Willdenow is here made to say, the part in question had hitherto improperly been called a calyx: 
the fact is, that this botanist proposes the term calyx, and objects tothat of germen. 
Abroma fastuosum of Gertner, the very good figure here given, is the only complete one we 
have of this superb species which appears tobe distinct from A, augustum, with which latter Mr. 
S$. combines 
