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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
SERTUM PLANTARUM; or, Drawings and Descriptions of 
Rare or Undescribed Plants, from the Author's Herbarium ; 
by H. B. FrgrpiNG, Eso., F.L.S. & R.G.S. ; assisted by 
GronaE GanpwEn, F.L.S., and Superintendent of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon. 
Mr. Fielding is laudably engaged in making known to the 
botanical world some of the treasures of one of the most 
extensive herbaria that was ever formed by a private indi- 
vidual; and, under the title of Serrum PLANTARUM, there 
has already appeared an octavo fasciculus, with twenty-five 
plates executed in lithography, from the pencil ofa member of 
his own family, representing entirely new or very little known 
plants, accompanied by analyses where considered necessary, 
and a page of descriptive matter to each. The size and 
general execution of the work are similar to what is adopted 
in Hooker's Icones Plantarum, and the subjects, being en- 
tirely different from those there given, the book ought to 
find a place in every botanical library in the kingdom and upon 
the continent. The majority of the plants in the present fas- 
ciculus consists of the novelties collected in Brazil by Mr. 
Gardner, whose assistance, as announced in the title, is on 
that account the more valuable ; others are from Swan River, 
Peru, Chili, Mexico, &c.; and we have reason to know that 
à second fasciculus is nearly ready for publication, which will 
contain equally interesting subjects. It is announced that the 
Sertum Plantarum will be completed in four Parts; but we 
trust that the public-spirited author may be induced to carry 
it on to a much greater extent. Every working botanist is 
Conscious of the value of this and similar publications. 
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