BOTANICAL INFORMATION. ` 131 
His * Analecta Pteridographica, seu Descriptio et Illustratio 
Filicum, aut novarum, aut minus cognitarum,” in a thin volume 
folio, with thirty well executed plates, displays great and ju- 
dicious knowledge of the Ferns, and a mind not disposed to be 
led astray by too great a desire to multiply genera and spe- 
cies. His descriptions also evince a thorough knowledge of 
his subject, and an intimate acquaintance with books which 
treat on ferns. We have from the same pen an account of 
all the ferns discovered by Poeppig in South America, under 
the title of * Synopsis Plantarum Cryptogamicarum," &c. 
and those of Drége, Ecklon and Zeyher, detected in South 
Africa. These labours have rendered him peculiarly fitted 
for the work in question, of which six Fasciculi are published, 
each with ten coloured plates, representing species either alto- 
gether new, or such as have not been figured by Sckhuhr. 
The specific characters are in Latin, the full descriptions and 
remarks in German. The work seems to come out at very 
uncertain intervals, but we trust nothing will prevent the 
author from completing so truly useful a labour, 
Kiinze, Riedgraser (Carices). 
What Kiinze’s work, entitled * Farrnkrauter,’ is to 
Sckhuhr’s Ferns, the present publication is to the well known 
Carices of Sckhuhr—a Supplement ; and as may be supposed, 
it is marked, equally with that, by a very great improvement 
In the execution of the plates, and also in the descriptive 
matter. 'l'his is published too, like its prototype, in an 8vo. 
form, with one or more species, (coloured), on a plate; and we 
Possess three Parts, including thirty plates and their specific 
characters in Latin, and descriptions and remarks in German. 
Bareman’s Orchidacee of Guatemala and Mexico, in one vol. 
. "mperial folio. London, 1843. ; 
LixpLEY's Sertum Orchidaceum, in one vol. folio. London, 
1843, - 
We may speak of the beauty and Zuge of foreign publica- 
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