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Fourteen varieties of this well-known Fern are enumerated, and their 
characters given, many of which, by the lovers of species-making, have 
been ranked as distinct species, so that a page and a half is devoted to 
synonyms. | 
Mr. Moore continues to execute his part most ably and conscien- 
tiously; nor can too much praise be given to Mr. Bradbury, for the 
manner in which he carries out this curious art of Nature-printing, 
apparently determined to overcome all difficulties. The result, as far 
as this work is concerned, will be most creditable both to author and 
publisher, and an honour to the country. We shall notice the future 
parts of this work as opportunity offers. 
CHLORIS ANDINA ; Essai d'une Flore de la Région Alpine des Cordil- 
leres de l' Amérique du Sud; par H. A. WEDDELL, M.D., etc. ete. Li- 
vraison I., 6 plates. 4to. Paris, 1852. 
This work will constitute the sixth, or Botanical portion of the “ Ex- 
pédition dang les parties centrales de Amérique du Sud, de Rio de 
Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Pará; exécutée par ordre du Gouverne- 
ment Francais pendant les années 1843 à 1847, sous la direction du 
Comte Francois de Castelnau." To this expedition Dr. Weddell was 
attached as botanist. The result of that journey has already produced 
à most important work on the Cinchonas, which we have noticed in our 
first and second volumes of this Journal, where will be found also (Vol. 
l.p. 30) a brief sketeh of the author's route from Rio Janeiro on the 
Atlantie, to the coast of Arequipa on the Pacific. The Andine portion 
of this remarkable route afforded, no doubt, excellent materials for the 
WOrk now under consideration; but this able botanist undertook 
another expedition, and which has doubtless contributed to swell his 
collection, in which his route lay for a great length in the line of the ; 
Andes. a 
The ‘ Chloris Andina,’ which this accomplished botanist and traveller _ 
has here undertaken, is destined to include the alpine vegetation of the 
Cordilleras, of which however he acknowledges that many points of the 
` vast chain, lying parallel with the west coast of South America, still 
remain unexplored. His own herborizations in the Andes have been 
limited to the southern parts of Peru and Bolivia, extending from north 
to south through about 10° of latitude. For the flora of the countries 
north and south of these, special herbaria and publications, particularly 
