. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. stated that no gymnospermoustree inhabits the Indian peninsula. But independentlyof two common Cycads, the widely dispersed Podo-carpus latifolius grows plentifully in some localities inthe hills of the peninsula. Colonel Peddome, theauthor of the llora Sylvatua for .Southern India,made this interesting discovery in 1859, when he sent Libocedrus, has a representative in the South, like-wise requires some modilication, whatever sense weattach to the words Northern genus. We shouldprefer calling Liboce
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. stated that no gymnospermoustree inhabits the Indian peninsula. But independentlyof two common Cycads, the widely dispersed Podo-carpus latifolius grows plentifully in some localities inthe hills of the peninsula. Colonel Peddome, theauthor of the llora Sylvatua for .Southern India,made this interesting discovery in 1859, when he sent Libocedrus, has a representative in the South, like-wise requires some modilication, whatever sense weattach to the words Northern genus. We shouldprefer calling Libocedrus a Southern genus, inasmuchas it is represented by a larger number of species inthe South, where it is also apparently a more cha-racteristic type. On the other hand it might beadded that the Southern genera, Podocannis amiCallitris, both extend into the northern hemisphere inthe Old World. Squirrels and Conifers.—On this sub-ject theBidlclin tie la SoiiA<{Acdimalalion i/e Pariscontains an article condemning the active and elegantthough mischievous rodent to utter extirpation. It. Fir., 40.—BATEMANIA MELEAGRIS. (SEE P. 2o8,) IVeitchs new Manual of , and we thereforepropose remedying, to some extent, this state ofInmgs, As the book named is the most recent, and ^y respects the most complete, extant, we shall|be excused for pointing out more particularly theincompleteness of its information respecting the dis-Inbution of the Coniferre, The observation that theConiferx are represented in nearly all parts of theworld where arboreous vegetation exists is too general,tnd liable to convey an erroneous impression, becauseIn tropical countries the coniferous element is almost•?ntirely montane. It is true that stragglers descend,pveh in the tropics, down nearly, or quite, to the|5ea-level, just as some species of Oak do in?Mexico; but these are exceptions, and only bringput more prominently the fact that there are im-nense tracts of country covered with vegetation fr
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