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never divided, nor even in any of the specimens I have exa- 
mined, exhibiting three grooves, as in the plate of the Voy. au 
Pole Sud, I cannot think that character of any weight. On the 
other hand, the estivation of the perianth, introrse anthers 
and crustaceous testa to the seed, and the size and form and 
arrangement of the latter, are all characteristic of Asphodelee, 
while the plant is, in habit and generic affinities, so nearly 
allied to Bulbinella, Kunth, that I long hesitated whether or 
not to unite it to that genus. In my more advanced flowers 
the perianth is invariably deciduous.” Tab. 46, Juncus antarc- . 
licus, Hook. fil. Tab. 47, Rostkovia gracilis, Hook. fil. 
Tab. 48, Luzula crinita, Hook. fil. Tab. 49, Oreobolus pecti- 
natus, Hook. fil. Tab. 50, Isolepis Aucklandica, Hook. fil. 
Tab. 51, Uncinia Hookeri, Boott. The three last-mentioned 
plants, though described in the sixth Part, will not be figured 
till the succeeding (January) number. The author does not 
confine himself to bare descriptions of the genera and species, 
but gives copious remarks on their history, and on their geo- 
graphical distribution. Four more Parts will complete the 
account of the Flora of Lord Auckland's group and Campbell's 
Island. "The readers of our Journal need not be told that its 
pages already contain brief characters of all the Australian 
Lichens and Hepatice, and of the new species of Mosses. 
Systema Piperacearum ; exposuit F. A. Gui. MiQUEL, 1 vol. 
8vo. Rotterdam. i 
Botanists are infinitely indebted to Dr. Miquel* for what 
has long been a desideratum, a Monograph of the family of the 
Peppers. This our author has happily accomplished in one 
volume, 8vo. which is dedicated to one of the best of men 
and one of the most distinguished patrons of science, espe- 
cially of botany, Baron Benjamin Delessert. In the preface, 
Dr. Miquel acknowledges the numerous sources whence he 
* Not Miguel, as printed by an error of the press, at p. 114 of our 
second volume. X 
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