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tions in any way interfere, for while the latter-mentioned 
Work is to be a detached account, if we understand rightly, 
of the vegetation in the more frequented parts of Europe, 
such as are generally visited by tourists, that of Dr. Grise- 
bach will embrace all the plants of every part of Europe. 
Dierricu (Dn. D.), Deutschlands Kryptogamische Gewüchse, 
oder DEUTSCHLANDS Frona, 6ter Band. KRYPTOGAMIE. 
By the term “6ter Band,” on the title page, we are led 
to infer that this is a continuation of some publication on 
other plants of Germany. If so, the earlier portion has 
not come under our notice ; nor can we say much in appro- 
bation of the present undertaking as far as can be judged 
from the three Numbers now before us. It contains brief 
generic and specific characters and coloured figures of all the 
known species of Germany, without any history, or diag- 
nosis, or synonymes, further than the initials of the author 
whose name the German species bears. The First Number is 
devoted to the Ferns, and gives tolerably accurate, but in- 
differently executed figures of the several species, with very 
imperfect analyses of the fructifications. The Second and 
Third Numbers are devoted to Mosses, and include the 
genera Hypnum, Leskea, Climacium, Neckera, Fontinalis, 
Bartramia, Gymnocephalus, and part of Bryum; and if we 
cannot say much in praise of the Ferns, still less can we 
commend this portion of the work, which would scarcely 
have done credit to the author or to the artist a century ago. 
a contrast with the “ Bryologia Europea" of Bruch 
and Schimper, and Gümbel! one of the most learned and 
beautiful works on the subject that has ever appeared, and 
Which we trust to notice more fully ere long, if our leisure 
will permit us. s 
