288 NOTICES OF BOOKS. - 
those of Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, and the Flora of Chili, by 
M. Claude Gay, recently terminated, together with the collection of 
Henke and Meyen, and Messrs. D’Orbigny and Pentland, and those 
of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the rich Herbarium of 
Dombey, ete., will be consulted. 
The limits of the region intended to be illustrated, will hereafter be 
treated of in the Introduction. The arrangement adopted is that of 
Adrien de Jussieu, commencing with the Gamopetala: and the work 
opens with a singularly interesting Tribe, viz. the Ladiatiflore among 
Composite. 1. Of Chuquiragua, 6 species are given, and 1 is figured. 
2. Flotowia, 3 species, 1 figured. 3. Doniophyton (nov. gen.), 1 p 
with figure. 4. Nardophyllum, 1 species. 5. Onoseris, 5 species, 1 
figured. 6. Aphyllocladus (nov. gen.), 1 species and 1 figure. T. Pla- 
zia, 9 species, 1 figured. 8. Barnadesia, 1 species, 1 figured. 9. Mu- 
tisia, 19 species, 2 figured. 10. Pachylena, 1 species figured. 11. 
Proustia, 2 species, and 1 figured.—It would thus appear that the au- 
thor gives a figure of at least one species of each genus: and these 
figures are admirably executed by M. Alfred Riocreux, now en 
gaged by the Museum of Natural History in continuing the famous 
.. Desseins de Velin, begun by the artist of the celebrated Tournefort, 
Aubriet. Notes and observations are given when and where necessary. 
Specific characters and descriptions only accompany the new species. 
Besides the botanical value of this work, as illustrating an interesting 
and definite series of plants, it is of great interest, as contributing to 
. our knowledge of vegetable geography.* 
. Press of other matter, and absence from home, have prevented our 
turning our attention to several important works which are recently 
. published or announced. We particularly allude to Alphonse De Can- 
. dolle's learned * Géographie Botanique raisonnée, ou Exposition des 
. Faits principaux et des Lois concernant la Distribution Géographique 
. des Plantes de l'époque actuelle, 2 vols.; Drs. Hooker and Thomson’s 
‘Flora Indica,’ first volume; Claude Gay’s ‘Flora Chilena, 8 vols. 
and atlas; the late excellent numbers of the ‘Bulletin de la Société 
Botanique de France,’ ete. z 
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* Dr. Weddell is also at this moment OnE Urti- 
eue ad Raise ; g a work on the Nat. Ord. | 
eacee, and has for some weeks taken up his residence at Kew for the opportunity 
