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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
M‘Fapyen: FLORA or Jamaica; or, a Description of the Plants 
of Jamaica, arranged according to the Natural Orders, $c. Sc. ; by 
JAMES M‘FapyEn, M.D., F.L.S., &c. &c. 
The first volume of this really important work, including Ranun- 
culacee to the end of Leguminosae, we had occasion to announce some 
time ago, and to speak favourably of it. A second volume, we are 
happy to inform the public, will shortly appear, carrying us to the end 
of Calyciffore, and this is printing under more favourable circum- 
stances; for the first volume has so far given an impulse to the study 
of the plants of Jamaica, that besides the researches of Dr. M‘Fadyen, 
whose long residence has rendered him familiar with the vegetation of 
most parts of this rich island, Dr. M*Nab, Mr. Purdie, and Dr. R. C. 
Alexander have made many and very important additions by their 
investigations, and the future pages will be rendered more complete 
than the earlier ones, though we are sure Dr. M‘Fadyen will give an 
appendix of any deficiencies which existed in this first volume. We have 
had the privilege of seeing several proof-sheets of the present volume, 
and besides being proportionally richer in species than the first 
volume, there are the same pains taken to describe the uses and pro- 
perties of the native plants. Such a book cannot fail to be welcome 
alike to the colonist and the scientific botanist. 
