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character. The Orders which follow next, 131—151 inclu- 
sive, being those that were aboutto appear in the eighth and 
ninth volumes of De Candolle, the author has judiciously 
suppressed, seeing that he could add little or nothing to what 
would appear in the Prodromus; and these Orders are 
merely enumerated, with a reference to the respective 
volumes of De Candolle. The remainder of the work we 
presume is to proceed so rapidly, and being, from the very 
nature of it, a compilation from other works, it will have so 
completely the start of the Prodromus, as to be no longer in 
any way connected with it: and seeing the very imperfect na- 
ture of all other * Systemata;" (those of Persoon and Sprengel, 
for example), the author has judiciously made of the conti- 
nuation a * Species Plantarum," in which all the species, 
described in books, are intended to be introduced, with brief 
characters and references to figures. "The characters of the 
Orders and Genera are omitted, references being given to 
them in works which are in the hand of every Botanist. 
Such a work has its merits and its usefulness, and we are 
thankful to Dr. Walpers for the labour he has employed upon 
it. The first fasciculus includes Solanacee and part of Scro- 
phularinec ; the second, and part ofthe third are occupied by 
the continuation of that family; then follow Orobancheæ and 
Labiate, which are yet unfinished, in the fourth fasciculus. 
Hooker, Icones Plantarum, Vol. VIL, Part II. 
The second and concluding portion of the seventh volume - 
of this work appeared during last autumn, and it now includes - 
700 figures and descriptions of new or rare species of plants 
existing in the Author's Herbarium, procured from dif- 
ferent parts of the world: a number we believe much greater 
than was ever attained in any miscellaneous botanical work. 
Nor is the present fasciculus wanting in species of great 
novelty and interest. Among them we may mention, —the 
first plate, Tab. 651, which is the Euploca convolvulacea of Nut- 
tall, a new genus of Boragince, allied to Schleidenia, Endl. — 
