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III. Notice of Mussana Bark(Albizzia anthelmintica) fromAbyssiniaHenry Hunter Calvert Esq. aa AlexandriaPublished online: 01 Dec 2010.

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Islands, and at Port Gallant, and have seen Brazilian speci-mens of what I believe to be the same plant. At theFalkland Islands I saw no specimens with a caudex, butsome of those at Port Gallant had a straight one abouttwo feet high.' Among the fungi that occurred to me werespecies of Agaricus (the common mushroom grows abund-antly in many localities, on both sides of the Strait), Poly-porus, Tremella, Olavaria, Geastrum, &c. I got a goodmany fine lichens, and expect to get many more in succeed-ing seasons. We arrived at Rio on the 1st of July, andexpect to leave it in the course of a few days for the Strait,calling at Monte Video on our way. I hope while we arethere to get up the river to Buenos Ayres, to see Burmeisterand the Museum. I have enjoyed the three months wehave spent here very much, but am very glad at the pros-pect of our return to the Strait, as the climate here is veryenervating. The country is, however, splendid beyonddescription. As regards plants, I have been speciallystruck with the great variety and profusion of palms andferns, and my attention was greatly arrested at first by theLygodia, and other twining ferns, so different in habit fromour British ferns. Despite the heat, I have walked abouta great deal, and have made one or two excursions toplaces at some distance. Soon after our arrival here, Imade the acquaintance of a most kind and hospitableScotchman, Dr Gunning, whose name I have no doubt youare familiar with, as an old Edinburgh man ; and I havemade two visits to him at his house on the Sierra de Mar,about fifty miles from Rio, and saw some splendid illustra-tions of virgin forest. Our work this next season will bepartly in the completion of the eastern portion of the Strait,partly in the survey of Smyth's channel ; and we willwinter next year at Valparaiso or Conception.

III. Notice of Mussana Bark (Albizzia anthelmintica) fromAbyssinia. By HENRY HUNTER CALVERT, Esq., BritishVice-Consul, Alexandria. Communicated by ProfessorBALFOUR.

Mr Calvert sent specimens of Mussana (or Mussena)bark, supposed by Brongniart and some other authors to be

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the produce of Albizzia anthelmintica, a plant belonging tothe Mimosece section of the natural order Leguminosce. Thebark has the reputation in Abyssinia and Senaar of being aspecific as a tcenifuge, for which purpose 2 to 4 oz. powderedare made into an electuary with honey. Mr Calvert statedthat he was indebted for the information he sent to DrAbbate, a gentleman who had travelled a great deal inUpper Egypt and Nubia, and to Dr Guillardot, who hasdone much towards the exploration of the Syrian flora.

IV. Extracts from Botanical Correspondence. Communi-cated by Mr SADLER.

1. From Mr ROBERT BROWN, of the Greenland Scientific Expedition.

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 25, 1867.

DEAR SADLER,—I have made, in little more than twomonths, a collection of Greenland plants amounting tomore than 5000 specimens, including a fine lot of mosses(in fruit), lichens, hepaticw, a few fungi, and alga, marineand fresh water. In addition to these I made a good col-lection of skulls, skeletons, &c., of seals and whales andbirds, fishes, insects, annelidw, mollusca, echinodermata,zoophytes, &c. and a large collection of diatomaceousgatherings. We have also brought home about a boat-load of fossil plants, with observations and sections ofthe deposits. In addition to this I have made severalhundred astronomical observations for the latitude andlongitude of the places we visited. When I tell youthat all this, with scarcely an exception, was done by my-self, besides doing a fair share of the rest of the work of theexpedition, you can conclude that time did not lie heavy onmy hands, and that I will have work enough this winter.

2. From Mr J. F. ROBINSON, Frodsham, Cheshire.

Mr B. says—" This summer at Oakmere, on DelamereForest, I found the Calamagrostis stricta in tolerable abund-ance on the part of boggy ground nearest the Abbey ArmsHotel. Two other interesting species were also plentiful-Lycopodium inundatum and Utricularia minor. This place(I mean the bog adjoining the Mere) is extremely rich inmuscological rarities ; amongst others the following occur:—

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