188 : NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Notwithstanding the defects we have ventured to mention, arisiug 
perhaps from the present imperfect nature of the process, we are sure 
there are few botanists, especially Pteridologists, who will not think the 
present a most acceptable publication, and that our acknowledgments 
are due alike to Dr. Lindley and Mr. Moore and Mr. Bradbury for the 
respective parts they have taken in it. Judging from the specimen of 
the descriptions, Tabs, I., IL, HI. (all devoted to the well-known Poly- 
podium vulgare), that department is carefully and well executed by Mr. 
Moore. The preface is from the pen of Dr. Lindley. We look for the 
continuance of the work with great satisfaction. 
Part IL. of this fine work has just reached us, with its three plates, 
viz.—Plate III., Polypodium vulgare, vars. Cambricum and crenatum ; 
Plate V., Polypodium Dryopteris; and Plate VI., Polypodium Roberti- 
anum, Moffm. (P. caleareum, Sm. and most authors, save those who 
consider it, and probably with much justice, a variety of P. Dryopteris). 
English authors who adopt this name of Hoffmann do not seem to be 
. aware that it appears under that name in the Fl. Germ., only in the 
unpaged Addenda et Emendanda* (not at “p. 10 of vol.ii."). And as 
it is, further, not included in the index of that work, there is ample 
excuse for Smith and succeeding authors being ignorant of its exist- 
ence; add to which, the specific character of Hoffmann is miserably 
unsatisfactory, and does not give one single point of distinction between 
. it and P. Dryopteris ; so that, in our opinion, it would have been bet- 
ter to have left it in its original state of obscurity. Be that as it may, 
the portrait of the plant in the work before us is an admirable one, 
only wanting in what this style of “printing” is sadly deficient, viz- 
the glands and pubescence. Setting aside the glands and pubescence 
(and we know that in many other Ferns their absence or presence 
affords no specific distinction), we appeal to these two figures of P.. 
Dryopteris and P. calcareum, “ Nature's own printing," and ask if 
— ** [t is true that Mr. Moore quotes, as it were, another work of Hoffmann, ‘ Flora 
de l'Allemagne, in addenda (1795), giving no volume. We are ourselves ignorant 
of any work of Hoffmann bearing that title; but Pritzel explains the matter, and 
lets us into a secret. “Adest,” says Pritzel, “ etiam titulus gallicus (et anglieus?) + 
* La Flore de l'Allemagne, ou Etrennes Botaniques.’” The work which is generally 
quoted under the title of * Deutschlands Flora, in my copy, probably to suit the 
more scientific market, has * Flora Germanica! for its only title. The first volume, 
in two parts, bears date, Part L, 1800, Part IL, 1804 (being a second edition) ; 
the second volume (Cryptogamia) is dated- 17 95, an 
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second edition ; it is in the addenda 1o this that the Fern in mation: - ve p 
