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inaccuracies, chiefly in the omission of single letters from 
words ; and, as authors, we cannot but think leniently of such 
errors) may be had in the form of a pamphlet of sixteen 
pages, or occupying one side of a large sheet; so that all 
the Orders, Genera and Species may be seen at a glance. 
Such an undertaking cannot but assist materially all those 
who study our native plants, and we shall be surprized if it 
does not obtain the circulation it so well deserves. 
Flora of the SHETLAND IsLES. 
Mr. Thomas Edmondston, Jun., a most zealous Botanist, 
of Baltasound, Shetland, and the son of an accomplished 
Physician, and Naturalist, of that country, has announced a 
Flora of this Ultima Thule of the British possessions, com- 
prising a * Topographical distribution of the plants; descrip- 
tion of the country ; the geological and geographical distribu- 
tion of the plants ; comparative lists; a full catalogue of the 
flowering and cryptogamic plants of Shetland; their verna- 
names; habitats of the less frequent species, and occa- 
sional remarks on their domestic or medicinal uses ; and 
critical affinities.” 
Mr. Edmondston made himself known at a very early age, 
by his discovery of Arenaria Norvegica in Shetland, an en- 
tirely new plant to Britain; also by drawing up a Catalogue 
of the Plants of the Island of Unst, Shetland, when he was 
only eleven years of age, and which was printed in the late 
Dr. W. D. Hooker’s “ Notes on Norway.” 
VEGETABLE Orcanocrapny, or an Analytical Description 
of the Organs of Plants, by M. Ava. P. De CANDOLLE; 
translated by Boucutron Kinepon. Ed. 2, 8vo. 2 vols. 
with 25 lithographic plates. 
Although printed three years ago (1841), this second edi- 
