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lent Governor, Sir John Franklin, who facilitated his re- 
searches in a way which no other person could have done, 
and whose communications of new and rare species from dis- 
tricts never before trodden by the foot of a botanist, have 
enriched Dr. Hooker's Herbarium no less than that of his 
father. To Mr. Gunn we shall be indebted for the catalogue 
of Tasmanian plants being more complete than could other- 
wise have been expected, considering the nature of the coun- 
try, and the many portions yet unknown to the European. 
Hooker, Species Fiticum, or Descriptions of all known 
Ferns. Part II. 
The Second Part of this work, as promised at an early 
period in the number of our Journal for March, has appeared 
with its accompaniment of 20 plates, representing no less 
than 64 species. Of the letter-press the genus Dicksonia 
(including Balantium, Kaulf, Culcita, Pr. Leptolenna, Pr. 
Cystodium, J. Sm. and Patania, Pr.), is concluded, and 51 
species, including dubious ones, enumerated. Cibotium, 
Kaulf, (Pinonia, Gaud.), has 6 species; Deparia, Hook. 2. 
Loxsoma, Br. 1 ; Hymenophyllum, Sm. 83 species; and Tri- 
chomanes includes nearly the same number, but will not be 
concluded till the following Part. The plates (partly illus- 
trative of the preceding number) contain 3 species of Wood- 
sia, 20 of Dicksonia, 4 of Cibotium, ! of Deparia, 29 of Hy- 
menophyllum, and 7 of Trichomanes. Part III of this work 
has been announced by Mr. Pamplin to appear in July. 
HyMENOPHYLLACEE; Eine botanische Abhandlung vo" 
Pror., Dr. Karu B. Pnzsr. 4fo. with 12 Plates. Prague; 
1843. 
Our own MS. of the species of the Genera of Hymeno 
phyllum was scarcely a fortnight in the printers 
when we received the work just mentioned, from the able 
