NOTICES OF BOOKS. : 8l 
Mr. Botter?s Mexican Plants. 
Mr. Botteri, a Dalmatian Botanist, is now engaged, in part by the 
Horticultural Society of London, in collecting plants and seeds in 
Mexico. Dried specimens he is allowed to dispose of on his own ac- 
count, and he writes from Orizaba that he is busily engaged with the 
numerous vegetable productions around him. 
Mr. Samuel Stevens, 24, Bloomsbury-street, undertakes to receive 
subscribers’ names, and to transmit the collections when they are re- 
ceived, “at the usual price:" we presume, £2 the hundred species. 
Mr. Stevens has still in his possession good sets of Mr. Botteri’s 
Dalmatian plants on sale, about 250 species in each set, at 255. per 
hundred, and all carefully: named. 
Mr. Spruce’s PLANTS of the AMAZON River and its tributaries. 
The collections which have lately arrived from Mr. Spruce, made 
chiefly during an interesting voyage up the Uaupés river, are particu- 
larly numerous and particularly interesting, and are now preparing for — 
distribution by Mr. Bentham. ‘They contain perhaps more of novelty 
than any of the preceding collections, and are in excellent condition. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Stark, ROBERT M.: 4 Popular History of Brittsu Mossts; com- 
prising a general account of their Structure, Fructification, Arrange- — 
ment, and general Distribution. Royal 16mo, numerous coloured 
figures. London, 1854. 2 
As “most of the generic and specific characters employed in this 
work” are, confessedly, “taken from the second volume of Sir W. J 
Hooker's * British Flora,’ ” and as there is, moreover, evidence of much 
in the plates being taken from those of Hooker and Taylor's * Musco- 
logia Britanniea' (references to which seem to be carefully : avoided by 
our author), it ean scarcely be considered a fit subject for criticism from. 
our own pen: but we must say we should have been better pleased if 
the author had introduced some of the many valuable ipera 
