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only be attributed to want of experience in lithography on 
the part of the talented artist, Miss Drake. 
In the third Fasciculus, the Californian plants are brought 
to a conclusion. A new species of Pedilanthus is figured, 
P. macrocarpus; and two new Euphorbie are represented, 
out of eight new ones that are described. Plate 25 is 
Mozinna canescens, Benth. Serophyton is a new genus of 
Euphorbiacee, which, besides the Californian species S. lan- 
ceolatum, is made to include two Texian ones of Mr. Drum- 
mond’s collections. S. Drummondi (Texas, 2nd Coll. n. 245 ; 
3rd Coll. n. 317), and S. pilosissimum (Texas, 2nd Coll. 
n. 263, and 3rd Coll. n. 222). Eccremocarpus is another new 
Euphorbiaceous genus founded upon Croton? setigerus, 
Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2, p. 141, and figured at 26 as E. 
seligerus. 
The third portion of this work describes the plants of 
western tropical America, collected between Mexico and 
Guayaquil. This is prefaced by some general remarks from 
the pen of Mr. Hinds. Of this extensive line of country, 
a very great proportion of the plants collected are well-known 
species. Among the new ones, figures are given of Capparis 
(Cynophalla) Sinclairii,  Triplandron lineatum, Ruyschia 
bicolor, and Planarium latisiliquum : the three latter are not 
at present described, but will be so in the ensuing number. 
Synopsis Hepaticarum; auctoribus C. M. Gorrscue, J. B.G. 
Linpensere et C. G. Ners ab EsENBECK Svo., Hamburg, 
1844.  Fasc.I. 
A work of this kind has long been a desideratum ; and 
Whatever may be the opinion regarding the limits of genera 
and species in the family, there cannot bea doubt, from the 
names of the authors, that this will prove an important addi- 
tion to the library of the cryptogamic Botanist. We could 
have wished the authors had commenced with a table of the 
