98 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie ; BOTANIQUE, par 
Homsron ef JACQUINOT (la Phanérogamie) Chirurgiens de 
PExpédition; et MonTAGNE (la Cryptogamie). Large 
folio. Paris. Plates only. 
At p. 127 of the last volume of our Journal, we noticed 
the contents of the six first fasciculi of this work, and we 
have now to record the publication of two more fasciculi. 
We have still to complain, as before, of the non-appearance 
of a single description, or indeed, of a single line of text, 
to this costly undertaking; farther than the little brochure 
from the pen of the talented Montagne on the Alge and 
some of the Hepatice and Mosses, in the Annales des 
Sciences Naturelles. The want of letter-press, for which 
no apology is offered, (or, if made, it is not issued with the 
work), is the more felt at this time by one whose labours will 
be next noticed, and who is now engaged in publishing the 
botany of similar regions. For ourselves, too, Messrs. Hom- 
bron and Jacquinot must excuse us, if, judging from their 
figures alone, we pass too severe a criticism on some 
of the genera or species. The authors may, in their descrip- 
tions, if such are ever intended to appear, adduce reasons in 
favour of their views which might influence our own. Under 
present circumstances, we only pronounce upon the plates, 
which, it must be confessed, exhibit a great array of names 
at the bottom of each, connected with their publication: 
* Dessiné par Mesdames Bory et Borromée;" “ Dirigé par 
Borromée ;" * Gravé par Mademoiselle Mégissier ;? “ Gide, 
Editeur;" and again, in a neat stamp, “ Gide, Editeur, 
Paris.” 
Of the two additional numbers above ‘mentioned, one is 
devoted to the Alge, Lichens (which is peculiarly well exe- 
cuted), Hepatice, and Mosses, and is alike honourable to the 
author and to the artist. The last number contains five plates 
of Phanerogamic plants; of which Tab. 4 is occupied by a com- 
posite plant, forming the genus Albinea, and bearing the un- 
couth specific name of oresigenesa. This is the Pluerophyllum 
