[Footnote 1: [_The Truthteller_ was discontinued at the end of vol. i. The first number was published Sept. 25, 1824, and the last on Sept. 17, 1825. The publisher and editor, W. A. Andrews, closes his labours with the following remarks: "Having given _The Truthteller_ a year's trial, we feel ourselves called upon, as a matter of justice to our family, to discontinue it as a newspaper. The negligence of too many of our subscribers, in not discharging their engagements to us, and the indifference of others of the Catholic body, to support the vindicator of their civil and religious principles, leave us no alternative but that of dropping it as a newspaper, or carrying it on at a loss." Only two of Crito's papers on Botany were given in _The Truthteller_, viz. in No. 15., p. 115., and No. 16., p. 123. He probably continued them in _The Catholic Friend_, also published by W. A. Andrews. The following extract from a letter signed F., and dated Jan. 4, 1825, given in _The Truthteller_, vol. i. No. 16. p. 126., recommends the publication, among other works, of a "CATHOLIC CALENDAR. There should also be a Catholic Calendar, something like _The Perennial Calendar_, but more portable, and fuller of religious information, in which, under each saint, his or her particular virtues, intelligence, good works, or martyrdom, should be succinctly set forth, so as to form a sort of calendar of human triumphs, such as is recommended by Mr. Counsellor Basil Montagu in his Essays." In a note the writer adds, "This I believe will soon be undertaken." This letter seems to have been written by Dr. Forster.--ED.]] Thanks to MR. PINKERTON, I am enabled to turn my surmise into certainty, and have the pleasure of clearing up a literary _hoax_, which has, it seems, passed without challenge till my note of interrogation appeared in these pages. The _Anthologia_ and the _Florilegium_ are purely imaginary titles for certain pieces in prose and verse, the production of Dr. Forster, and have no existence save in the _Circle of the Seasons_. In the Autobiography of the eccentric Doctor--which is entitled _Recueil de ma Vie, mes Ouvrages et mes Pensées: Opuscule Philosophique_, par Thomas Ignace Marie Forster: Bruxelles, 1836--at p. 55. he enumerates the _Anthologia_ and _Florilegium_ among his "Pièces Fugitives," and ends the list in the following words: "Encore je me confesse d'avoir écrit toutes ces essais détachés dans le _Perennial Calendar_, auxquels j'ai attaché quelques signatures, ou plus proprement des lettres, comme A. B. S. R. etc." In the solitude of his garden at Hartwell he conceived the idea of making a Floral Directory, which he eventually carried out, and published under the title of the _Circle of the Seasons_. See p. 21.