108 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
t. 59, Hydrocharidee ; t. 61, Iridee; t. 68, Scitaminee ; t. 69, 
Marantacee ; t. 10, Musacee; t. 11, Najadee ; &. 19, Typhacee ; 
t. 77, and 77, a, t. 17, 0, Palme; t. 19, Gnetacea; t. 80, Chlo- 
ranthee ; t. 81, Piperacea ; t. 82, Saururea ; t. 85, Podostemmee : 
t. 86, Casuarinec. 
Dunar; Petit Bouquet Mediterranéen. 4to. Brochure, Mont- 
pellier. 
Under this modest title the learned Professor of Montpellier has 
described and figured six new, or little known, plants of the Flora 
of the Mediterranean region, “ qui s' étend des rives du Portugal 
baignées par l’ocean Atlantique, jusqu’ aux confins de la Perse’et 
peut-être méme d' Affghanistan. Elle a sur toutes les autres le privi- 
lege d'avoir été le berceau dela Botanique. C'est en effet à Athénes 
que Theophraste, il y a 23 siécles, jeta les premiers fondements de la 
physiologie végétale et de la phytographie, et c'est à Anazarbe, 
en Cilicie, que Dioscoride écrivit, trois ou quatre siécles aprés, la 
premiére histoire des plantes employées en médecine; livre qui a 
eu le re d’être presque le seul livre de botanique des méde- 
cins jusqu” au siècle dernier, et qui est encore aujourdhui presque 
le seul des pays qui sont soumis à P Islamisme.” Since that re- 
mote period, continues the author, the vegetation of every part of 
this vast region has been often explored. Portugal, Spain, and 
the Balearic isles, the kingdoms and regencies of the north-west 
of Africa, as well as of the south of France and Italy, the Jonian 
islands, Greece, as well as Egypt and Asia Minor, have been 
visited by numerous and talented botanists ; and still many vege- 
table productions of these countries remain to be discovered and 
described ; so great is the number of species of plants, and such 
the amount of time and labour necessary to acquire a complete 
knowledge of those of any country. 
In proof of this assertion M. Dunal proceeds to describe Heli- 
anthemum multiflorum, Saltam., from Tangiers; H. calycinum, - 
(Cistus calycinus, L.) discovered in Bæotia, by Clusius, and rarely — E 
detected since ; Cistus Clusii, Dun., of Spain and Barbary; Heli- —— 
4 anthemum diocese Dun., from Algeria; and Narcissus x 
