294 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
of the subject, and fit him to collect and preserve and correctly name 
the Alge of the British shores. The first fasciculus of the * Algarum 
Fasciculi,’ now before us, is, as might be expected from the author of 
*The Seaweed Collector's Guide, very neatly got up, and the speci- 
mens are beautifully displayed and preserved. In this latter respect 
there is nothing to be needed; but we should have been glad to have 
seen fructified specimens, wherever they can be had (and in this there 
is no difficulty with the majority of the species, if sought ai a proper 
„season of the year); and we think that the wrapper bears an expres- 
sion in the title, ** with a description of each plant," which is not borne 
out by the contents. We find no description, nor even a specific cha- 
racter. Hach fasciculus contains ten species. 
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Scuort, H.: Anorpzx. Fasc. I. IL, each with 10 plates. Large fol. 
Vienna. 1853-5. 
In the excellent * Meletemata Botanica’ of Schott and Endlicher, 
those botanists have given characters of the genera, and an enumera- 
tion of certain species belonging to them, of the Family or Class 
Aroidee ; and, judging from two very beautiful fasciculi of the pre- 
sent work before us, Dr. Schott’s object is here to describe, on a more 
extended scale, the genera and species. These descriptions are accom- 
panied with a considerable number of figures, some coloured and some 
plain, admirably executed in lithography. In Fasc. I. the genus Spa- 
thiphyllum, Schott, (of which the well-known Pothos cannafolia may be 
_ considered the type,) has nine species described and six figured. Uro- 
~ spatha, Schott, (to which belongs Pothos sagittefolia, Rudge,) has six 
.. species, and four figured. In Fase. II. the figure and analysis of 4m- 
- brosinia Bassii, Mun., occupy an entire plate; a solitary species of the 
genus Cryptocoryne, Fischer, has five species described and two figured. 
. Lagenandra, Dalzell, has only the L. toxicaria, figured also by us in the 
. Journal of Botany, 1853, Tab. V. and VI. Stylochiton, Leprieur, is 
an African genus of two species, one figured. Zyphonium, Schott, (of 
which drum trilobatum, Linn., may be considered the representative;) 
has eleven species, and five are admirably figured, and with excellent 
analyses of the fructifications. 
»c . We trust that nothing will occur to impede the progress of this 
work, for it is alike creditable to the author and to the artist, and 
cannot fail to render great service to the cause of Botany. 
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