478. | Monthly Naturalist’s Reporte [June 1, 
to render it very detivable. as an omamerial shrub. We may hope tosee it secon naturalized. 
to our climate. 
Botanist’s Repository. Mr. Ande ews, No. 107, opens with ' 
Magnolia grandifiora, a.large double figure. We have nodoubt, but this is a Seo spe 
cies from the original grandiflora, both in being of a much lower growth, (er at least produc 
ing its flowers at a more early per. ‘od) and in having the lower surface of its leaves coated with 
a thick brown tomentum. It is considerably more hardy. 
Commersonia echinata.. This curious and raré plant flowered in Mr. Lambert’s hot-house 
the second year from seeds, and continued for a long while to expand its blossoms, which, 
though not particularly ornamental, were very fragrant, especially ata high temperature. Mr. 
Lambert, we are told, introduced a hive of bees into the hot-house, by whose assistance 
impregnation was successfully performed, and a crop ot fruit obtained.» Post hoc, ergs propter 
boc ? 
Euosma algifiora. This new genus from Port Jackson, New Holland, appears tq be distinet 
from all others. It is pentandrous monogynous, has a small persistent five-parted bracteated 
calyx, small bellshaped five-lobed flower, and its fruit is a bilocular capsule divisible into two 
parts, each forming acell by the infiexion of its margins, opening on the inside at the top, 
and containing several seeds attached to an erect receptacle on the edges of the valves. The 
small whitish blossoms, collected in racemes covering the upper part of the branches, have a 
very pleasing effect which is heightened by their fragrance, here compared to that of the 
blossoms of the May (Crategus “Oxyeantha ) 
Eriospermum folicliferum, ‘This is one of the most singular vegetable productions with 1e~ 
gard to the formation of its heart-shaped leaves, which, on their upper surface, are beset with 
small tongue-shaped erect leaflets covered bya white pubescence. We think it must forma 
SeRws 5 but not having seen the plant itself, forbear being decisive. It isa native of the 
Cape, as may be seen at first view, and exists in Furope, only in the collection of Mr. 
Hibbert, where the figure was takes, together with that of Protea abrotanifolia hirta, coming 
very near the species represented p]_ 507 of this work. Mr, Andrews has given several’ good 
figures of Protez, and this is one of them. 
A neem 7] 
NATURALIST’s MONTHLY REPORT. 
APRIL. 
Budding Month. 
See where surly Winter passes off, 
Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts. 
His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill, 
The shatter’d forest, and the ravaged vale 5 « hg. 
While softer gales succeed. ‘ 
HE spring is this year more backward than I almost ever recollect it to have been. 
May-day is artived, and, even in the extreme southern counties of England, the hedges 
and trees are yet destitute of verdure. It is true, that the leaves of the hawthorn, bramble, i 
hedge-rose, woudbine, and other shrubs, have appeared some time ago, yet in few places in= 
deed aye they yet fully expanded. April 2. The wind this day changed from the east, 
round by the south, to the west. April 4. The equinoctial gales corsmenced 5 3 and in the 
evening and night we had much rain. “April 19. The wind was in the north, and the wea- ~ 
ther, for the season, extremely cold. In the course of the day there was a snow storm, which, 
paweeek: did Bi; continue much more than an hour. 
April 2. The Persian iris (iris Persica) is in flower. 
April 6. The lesser lampreys (pretomyzon fluviatilis of Linnzeus) are seen in great num~- 
bers in the rivers, adhering to stones-by their circular mouths. The females are full of 
spawn. Roach and dace play about near the surface of the water. 
I this day heard, for the first time, the ticking or beating of the death-watch (ptiaus tessel- 
aius of Marsham) ; and I caught a female wasp, which senieg weak and languid, as though 
it had only just recovered its animation. 
Aprils. Thecommon goose-grass (galium aparine) is beginning to appear out of the 
ground, The geoseberry, bramble, hawthorn, and lilac, are putting forth their leaves. 
“Young geese appear abroad. 
ght £0." *Pie hemlock-leaved. crane’s-bil] (erodium cicutarium), chequered daffodil, or — 
fritillary (fritillaria meleagris), brown imperial (fritillaria imperialis), the dwarf-tris (iris pu- 
mila), Jd yellowish iris (iris /utescens), are in flower. : 
Water lizards, or efts (/accrta aquatica), appear at the bottom of the ponds. Gudgeons de- 
posit their spawn, ad they 
ar 3 7 ‘ ‘ 
April 
