PART III. ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

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poets, and Virgil represents /Eneas seated on a trunk of maple for athrone.

“ ‘ On sods of turf he set the soldiers rouud;

A maple throne, raised higher from the ground,

Received the Trojan chief; and o’er the bedA lion’s shaggy hide for ornament they spread.*

“ Cowper, and many modern poets, also mention the maple bowls of shep-herds and hermits.”

Doubtful Species of A K cer. Page 431., at the end of the paragraph, add : “ Weare informed by Mr. Gordon that there is a plant of A. lobatum in theHorticultural Society’s Garden, which was received from M. Fischerof Gottingen, and which is the same as the A. hybridum in the collec-tion of Messrs Loddiges.”

Anticipated Specks of A'eer. A. ibericmn. 431., add to the paragraph : “ Thereare plants under this name in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, bothimported and raised from seed, which, Mr. Gordon thinks, stronglyresemble A. lobatum.”

A. Icevigatum. 431., add to the paragraph : “ This is a totally differentplant from the A. lmvigatum m the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges,which is a variety of A. campestre.”

A. villosum. 431., add to the paragraph : “ A. villosum Pres! is men-tioned in the Companion to the Botanical Magazine, as being foundwith A. monspessulanum on Mount Etna; but, as it is said to be pecu-liar to that mountain, it must be a different plant from the A. villosumof Dr. Wallich.”

Negundo. 460., add to “ Varktks: ” “ f N. f. 3 violacea Booth.”

461., to the paragraph headed “ Soil, Situation, Src.,” add : “ The only fungus

found on the Negundo is Leptostroma scriptum Fr.”

/Escuea'ce*.

JE'sculus. 643., after the paragraph headed “ Desctiption,” add : “ Thefungi found on trees of this order are, Cryptosporium /E'seuli Fr.;Sphae'ria ecsculicola Fr., on dead leaves; and Polyporus /22'sculiSchwein., on Pavia Hava Fr. — .17. ,7. B.”

,F. Hippocastanum. 463., to the “ Varktks ,” add : —

“ t /E. II. 4 foliis argenteis. There is a plant in the Horticultural Socie-ty’s Garden, the leaves of which are blotched or striped with white,instead of yellow.”

M. (II.) ohiensis. 467. 1. 9., for “ inferior,” read “ superior ; ” and add after thefull stop ; “ It has fine large leaves, of a bright green, and quite whiteflowers.”

7E. (77.) rubicunda. 467.1. 23., after “ Lindl.” add: “ /E. rosea differs slightlyfrom M. rubicunda both in flowers and foliage, but not sufficiently toconstitute it a variety.”

468., dele the paragraph beginning “ 1 6. M. (H.) Lyo'n//.”

Pavia hybrida. 472. 1. 22. from the bottom, for “ flowers variegated withyellow, white, and purple,” read “ flowers yellow.”

P. macrostachya. 474. first line, for “ 1820,” read “ 1786, by Mr. JohnFraser.”

Statistics. Add to the end of the paragraph: “ Probably the largest tree ofthis species in England is one at the Vicarage at Rickmansworth,which is 16 ft. high, and covers a space of 29 square yards. It standswithin a few yards of a rivulet, in a dark porous soil, on a bed of finegravel, about 2 ft. below the surface, which evidently suits it verywell.”

Other Varktks of Pavia. 474., 1. 14. from the bottom, after the full stop,add : “ Mr. Gordon informs us that the tree in the Horticultural So-ciety’s Garden, marked there TE'sculus Lyonii, is a Pavia 1 .”

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