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maculata, Eranthemum, and Urena lobata. But where cutting has taken 
place, and the timber has been extensively removed, dense thickets 
of Bamboos spring up. Indeed, every place not occupied by large 
trees is covered with Bamboos of various kinds, from the dwarf China 
Bamboo to the huge gigantic kind peculiar to Burmah. The hills on 
which the largest timber grows are composed of indurated slates, dark 
bituminous or basaltic sandstone, which is covered along the base of 
the hilly country with laterite; and this is likewise clothed with forest, 
the timber of which is of smaller size. Beyond the laterite are the 
low plains, mostly covered with high grass jungle, and formed of river 
deposits resting on laterite. It is here alone where we find any popu- 
lation; for the only inhabitants of the forests are a few Kareens, wha 
have no fixed habitation. 
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Dozy, F., et J. H. MorkENBOER: Bryologia Javanica. 4o. 1854. 
Fasc. III. cum Tabulis V. 
We have just received the fifth fasciculus of this important work, the 
continuation of which will, we know, not be interrupted by the recent 
lamented death of one of its editors, Dr. Molkenboer. The whole of 
the five plates of the present number is devoted to the illustration of 
the species of the beautiful genus Leucobryum (to which belongs our 
Dicranum glaucum), of which eight species are described. —Cladopo- 
danthus, Schistomitrium, and Spirula, three new genera, and Leucopha- 
nes, follow next, and their plates. will doubtless be given in the succeed- 
ing number. 
Packer, JAMES J.: List of BnrrisH Mosses. 
a < Mr. James J. Packer, of Thirsk, has just published a classified “List 
ef British Mosses,” compiled from Wilson's * Bryologia Britannica.’ It 
may be had at a very small expense, and by post, by applying to the 
author. This Catalogue is prepared in two forms: 1, as “copies for 
= marking off desiderata or registering the species of a district ;” and, 2, 
. on thicker paper, printed on one side only, to be used as labels.” 
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