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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
New Edition of the Bnrrisu. FLORA. 
A new (the sixth) edition of the Britisu Frona, by Sir W. J. Hooker 
and Dr. Arnott, has just been printed by Messrs. Longmans. The whole 
work has undergone a careful revision by the Authors, so as to render the 
volume as perfect as the present state of our knowledge of the Plants 
(Phzenogamic and Ferns) of the British Islands will allow. To render 
it more portable, the present edition is of a 12mo size ; the plates are 
entirely re-executed, and in the most beautiful manner, by Mr. Fitch. 
Tur Tovrtst’s FLORA; dy Josera Woops, F.A.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
London: Reeve and Benham. $8vo. 1850. 
Few books were more required for the use of the many English 
travellers who make the ordinary European tours, in their own country 
or on the Continent, and who desire an acquaintance with the many 
vegetable productions they see around them, than one like the present ; 
and few men are more competent to prepare such a work than Mr. 
Joseph Woods, a very considerable portion of whose long life has 
been devoted to travelling at home and abroad, with this special object 
in view. He is himself familiar with most of the plants described 
in this volume, from having studied them in their native localities, and 
he has taken great pains to give the essential characters of the genera 
and species in as few words as possible : so that the whole is comprised 
in five hundred closely printed pages, in double columns. The coun- 
tries embraced are the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzer- 
land, Italy, and the Italian Islands. These limits are chosen as those 
of the countries most frequented by English tourists. The arrange- 
ment in the body of the work is according to the Natural Orders, but 
the key to the genera is on the Linnean system, with references under 
each genus to the page where the species will be found. This plan 
is, probably, well suited to the wants of the majority of those for 
whose use it is especially intended, and we are sure that to such 
Mt. Woods has rendered a most acceptable service. Partial or local 
Floras are not wanting, but generally written in the Latin tongue. 
. "This is the first attempt to embrace several countries commonly included 
. in what is called a “Continental Tour,” and we heartily wish the 
publication the success it so justly merits. It is accompanied by 4 
full index of genera, species, and synonyms. 
