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“The Editor of the Spicilegium Flore Rumelice, here an- 
nounced, has succeeded in collecting from Macedonia, 
Thrace, and the adjoining provinces, more than 2,000 species 
of plants. A careful systematic working up of these ma- 
terials is his present object; and his book is not merely 
confined to the description of new species, which form about 
the twentieth part of the whole collections, but it will include 
a careful comparison with the collection of allied Floras, 
while a more accurate circumscription of the limits of each 
species will be attempted by new and precise Diagnoses. 
Preparations ‘for the publication of a “ Synopsis Plantarum 
Europe,” on which the author has for years been engaged, 
and in which he hopes to see himself farther supported by 
the communication of rare S. European species from the 
friends of science, have facilitated to him the subject and they 
insure to the work a more general as well as a purely geo- 
graphical interest. 
“ The Spicilegium contains a complete enumeration of all 
the plants which have been observed in the Turkish territory 
between the Danube and the kingdom of Greece. Those 
forms which the author has not himself examined are to be 
mentioned, at least by name, as will be more fully explained 
in the preface. In the following Parts, the collections of 
Aucher-Eloy, so far as these were made in the Rumelian 
territory will be frequently quoted. 
“The extent of the work, which, on account of the Diag- 
noses, is in the Latin language, is estimated at fifty to sixty - 
sheets octavo. The first volume contains the polypetalous 
families; the second, the remainder. In the arrangement, 
Endlicher’s Genera Plantarum is taken as the basis. Each 
Volume will be published in three parts, of which the first is 
sent herewith and the second is printed. If it should hereafter 
Appear possible to figure the new species, the Plates will 
. *ppear in Decades, in a separate work, so that the price of 
the Spicilegium may be precisely estimated from that of the 
first Part, | oe 
* A, GRISEBACH.” 
