160 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
has been engaged to prepare the figures in London ; and the first two 
numbers, mentioned at the head of this article, all that have yet appeared, 
are now before us, in which the pledge of the authors to the public is 
fully redeemed, that there should be a great amount of figures and sub- 
jects at a very small cost. We must confess ourselves, however, a little 
disappointed with the “beauty or remarkable tints” of the coloured 
plates. "They are not equal to the majority of those of the * Botanical 
Register, a fair subject for comparison. The first Plate is Sarracenia 
Drummondii, on a reduced scale ;—the upper part of a leaf only of the 
natural size, no flower, though it has been represented in that state, 
some years ago, in the * Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of 
New York,’ as quoted by the authors. The history of the plant, how- 
ever, is exceedingly interesting. The second Plate represents Adeno- 
calymna nitidum, which we venture to consider identical with 4deno- 
calymna comosum, De Cand. and Bot. Mag. t. 4210, with the bracteas 
fallen off. Plate III. exhibits Cattleya Walkeriana, Gardner; “ per- 
haps the nearest relation of this plant is with C. superba, from which, 
however, its dwarf habit and incomplete lip readily distinguish it.” 
The description is accompanied by an enumeration of the twenty 
species at present grown in our collections. The woodcuts in the 
gleanings are Aristolochia picta, from Van Houtte’s * Flora.’ A leaf 
of the fine Berberis Japonica (Ilex! of Thunberg), of China, now in 
cultivation with Messrs, Standish and Noble, at the Bagshot Nursery, 
B. Lowensis, B. Darwinii, and B. tinctoria ; Spiræa decumbens, Gram- 
manthes gentianoides, and Calandrinia umbellata, and thirty-two species 
in all, are more or less noticed in the ** Gleanings.” 
No. II. gives coloured representations of Ceanothus dentatus, of Cali- 
fornia, Adamsia versicolor, n. sp., from China (Mr. Fortune), and Onci- 
dium hamatochilum, n. sp., from New Granada, accompanied by a list 
of all the plurituberculate-lipped species known in cultivation. To 
these are added thirteen woodcuts of rare or little-known plants; and 
twenty-six species are noticed, with observations. 
The ‘ Gardener’s Magazine of Botany,’ &e., by Thos. More and W. 
P. Ayres, &c., must, for want of space | in the present, be noticed in 
our next, number, 
