1810.] Monthly Botanical Report. — | $47 
West Inpirs.—No fleet has arrived since our last report, and produce of every kind @ 
very dullin the market, for want of export to the continent of Eyrope. Coffee is a mere, 
drug, and large quantities of the axticle are now lying in the West India Docks under bond. 
Sugars very flat, and in nodemand, Rum sells from 4s. Gd. to gs. 6d. per gallon. Cotton 
wool sells {rom 20d. to 22d. per Ib. 
SoutH AMgR1ICA.—The markets are over stocked with every description of British ma- 
Mufactures, aud the produce of these countries imported here, barely pays first cost. 
Norta AMerica.—The trade continues the same ag stated in our last report, with the 
exception, that the port of Liverpool i is glutted with American produce of every iiss estan 
and themarket is rather lower in prices than London. 
Current Prices of Shares in Docks, Navigable Canals, Bridges, Roads, Water Works, fasts 
tutions, and Fire and Life Insurance Offices, at the Office of Messrs. Wolfe and Co. No. 9, 
* Change Alley, Cornhill, 224 November, 1810.—Grand Junction Canal, 2841. per share. — 
Kennet and Avon ditto, 421. ditto.—Grand Surry ditto, 721. ditto.—-London Dock Stack, 
1232). per cent.—West India 165]. ditte.—East India ditto, 1311. ditto —Commercial Road 
1371. per cent.—East London Water Works, 1801. per share.—-West Middlesex ditto, 1151. 
ditto.—South London ditto, 1971. ditto.—-Yotk Buildings ditto, 35]. per share premium.— 
Kent ditto, 451. ditto.—Globe Insurance Office, 1211. per share. 
The average prices of Navigable Canal Property, Dock Stock, Fire-office Shares, &c. ia- 
Novemter, 1810, (to the 25th) at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Sridge-street, London. 
=~Staftordshire and Worcestershire, 7491. 19s. dividing 40!. nett per annum.—Swansea, 1671. 3 
the last diviaend 81. per share.—-Moomouthshire, 1261. Ss. to 155). with 21. 10s. half yearly 
dividend.——-Grand Junction, 293], to 2751, with SI, half yearly dividend.—Kennet and Avon, 
41], 10s.——Wilts ana Berks, 581.—Rochdale, 551.—Ellesmere, 531.—-Union, 961.—Lancaster, 
261. to 271. 10s.—-Ashdby-de-la- Zouch, 244.—-Basingstoke, 451. 3s.—-Worcester and Birming- 
ham Old Shares, S8l.—-Grand Surrey, 721. to 691. 15s.—-West India Dock Stock, 1631. 
Londoa Dock, 125!. 10s.——Commercial, Dock, 72].—Globe Assurance, 124]. per share 
Albion Assurance, 601.—Imperial ditio, %61.—London institution, 601.-——-Surrey Institutiony 
231. 23. 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
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UR two last Reports being entirely occupied by the new edition of the Hortus Kewensis, 
and the preceding one in paying our arrears of notice due to the Botanist’s Repository, we 
have fallen behind with the other periodical works, of the contents of which we may have 
been in the habit of making some mention. 
We shall now resume our account of the Botanical Magazine, of which four numbers have 
been published, as yet unnoticed by us. We shall enumerate all the plants in Me. Ker*s® de« 
partment in succession, without interrupting the series by those of Dr. Sims. 
Aide arvorescens, the tree aloe ; one ef che most gigantic of the species, but which was con- 
sidered by Linnzus asa variety of perfoliata. 
~ Ale arachnoides, var. reticulata. ‘This is one of the most diminutive species, nearly allied 
to the Cushion Aloe. 
One can hardly conceive that these two plants can be properly united under one genus, dif. 
fering so much as they doin habit, in foliage, and in the form, as well as colour, of the flower. 
The genus ought, if not entirely separated, to be divided into sectjons, 
Alse dngwa; the tongue-Aloe. All these three afford examples of as many different sec- 
tions, if not of distinct genera. 
Aloe picta, This would fall under the same section as arborea; as the next, Ale carinata, 
would unite with /ingua. 
Aloe depressa. This species was considered by Linnzus asa variety of perfoliata, and would 
consequently .be arranged under the first-mentioned section. ‘To this plate an outline of a 
diminished figure of the whole plant is added. This is a most useful addition; without which 
tie full sized representation on so small a plate can hardly conveyan intelligible idea of such 
very large plants. We can but wish that this method had been more generally adopted in 
cases where a small portion of a plant is insufficient to give a proper notion of the whole. We 
are happy to receive so many representations of succulent plants, which, hardly admitting of 
being preserved as dried specimens, are, on that account, more particularly desirable. 
Hemanthus puniceus. Ln a former number, Mr. Ker had observed, that Hemanthus multi- 
jisrus probably did not properly belong to this genus; but he here acknowledges that it bears 
a red berry, which corresponds with the rest of the genus, and, in consequence, desires his 
former observation to be annulled. 
* This botanist being every mcr quoted by his present name in the Hortus Kewensis, we 
shall in future follow this example, and drop that ef Gawler, shout the letier G, still con- 
pues ko post out his whic a 
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