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New Holland plants by Dryander, in the second yolume of Annals of Botany: Pultnma 
elliptica; Gompholobium scabrum ; Chorozema sericeum; C. coraceum; Davyiesia incrassata D. 
reticulata; D. cordata; D. alata; WD. juncea; Dillwynia myrtifolia, D. giycinifolia; Callistaghya 
lanceolata; C. elliptica; C. cuneifoha. » i Ke 
The Gompholobium maculatum, only mentioned here from Bot. Repository, we are pretty 
certain is not a Gompholobium, nor a native of New Holland, but ot the Cape. Chorozema 
Dr. Smith derives from xog0s, a dance, and Zexa, adrink; supposing that La Billardiere 
gave his name to the plant, in allusion to the joyful finding of water at the place where it 
was found after the party had suffered much from thirst. For this reason Dr. Smith has 
changed the name of €horezema, and altered the gender, which La Billardiere had made 
the feminine. ‘This latter author has not himself given the etymology ; and Dr. Sims sup- 
posing its derivation to be from yogos, a dance, and €ujxth, a mischief, or punishment, from 
the inconvenience its spinous leaves must occasion to the naked-footed dancers of that 
country, had maintained the propriety of making it of the feminine gender. We shall not 
here undertake to determine whose etymology is the most probable; but Dr. Smith justities 
the change he has taken the liberty to make. 
The nineteenth paper is on the subject of the variegation of plants, by Thomas Andrew 
Knight, esq. The design is to prove, that the variegation is not always to be considered 
as a mark of disease or debility, although in certain instances it appears to be so: this 
debility appears more certain in plants variegated with white; and when they become alto- 
gether white, Mr. Knight thinks they very seldom live long. Having-impregnated the 
flowers of the white Chasselas with the farina of the variegated or Aleppo vine,. he. raised 
many young plants from the product, every one of which was more or less variegated -both 
in the leaves and fruit, yet all the plants were strong and vigorous. But the most impertant 
fact is, that some of these varieties of the Aleppo vine possess a more than ordinary degree. 
of hardiness and vigour, and two of them appear much more capable of affording matur¢ 
fruit, in the climate of England, than any now cultivated. 
The twentieth paper contains characters of Hookeria, a new genus of Mosses, with de- 
scriptions of ten species, by the president. This genus is dedicated to the author’s young 
friend, Mr. William Jackson Hooker, of Norwich. 3 
The twenty-second paper, by R. A. Salisbury, esq. contains remarks on the plants:now 
referred to Sophora, with characters of the genus Edwardsia. It is here very justly ob 
served, that the last editicn of the Systema Vegetabilium contains, at Jeast, eight genera; 
very few, if any, of which will follow each other ina natural series. Lamarck detactied two 
pi these heterogeneous parcels, joining with them nevertheless some that are quite dissi- 
milar in habit. Willdenow, strange to tell, not only re-united the two genera of Lamatek, 
but added to them a third, still more discordant, and nearly allied to Halodendron. One 
of the parcels of these plants, containing Sophora tetraptera, microphylla, and chrysophylla, a 
new species, is here raised into a distinct genps, and named in honour of Mr. dwards, 
draftsman to the Botanical Magazine. : 
The twenty-third paper contains characters of Platylobium, Bossizea, and a new gerins 
_ named Poisetia, by the president. hese three genera have a very great affinity with each 
ether, but are distinguished by a marked difference in the structure of the legumen. 
_ The twenty-fourth paper contains descriptions of several new Mosses from Nepal; by 
William Jackson Hooker, esq. : fa) 
This volume bears ample testimony to the ability with which Natural History is culti- 
vated by the members of tle Linnwan Society, and to the zealous induftry of its learned 
president. 
~ . EE EINE SA TIE CE IE ESP LIS LILES IES LEE POLE GEE E 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, fromthe 24th of Funuary, to the 24th of 
February, 1809, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's. ' 
Barometer. 
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Thermometer. 
Highest, 30.14. Feb. 19. Wind N.W. Higheft, 53°. Feb. 3. Wind S.W. 
Lowest, 28.4. Feb. 12. Wind S. Ww. Lowest, 99? . Feb, 22. Wind N.We 
On the 13ththe | © = re 
3 51} mercury stood at On the 25th | ult. 
Greatest ( " ele 28.67, and on the Greateft { 13°,  }theglass was no higher 
variation in baie ore 14th, at the same | variation ng x than 349, and on the : 
24 hours pees hour, it stood at | 24 hours. 26th it was as high 
\ 29,18. as 47°. w 
The quantity of rain fallen fince our iaft Report is equal to 5.54 inches in depth. We 
ave bad another very rainy month; on eighteen days out of thirty-one there has been 
rain 
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