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in the materials. The Dutch Herbaria, it is well known to all who 
have visited them, are pre-eminently rich in the plants of the 
Malayan Archipelago, and a more ample field for novelty no where 
exists, which not the splendid Flora Jave, and the Rumphia of 
Professor Blume, nor the more humble “ Bijdragen tot de Flora 
van Nederlandsch Indié” of the same author, nor the beautiful 
Kruidkunde of Dr. Korthals, can exhaust. 
The work opens with a Bijdragen, or Prodromus of the Flora 
of Sumatra, by De Vriese, where twenty-one Ferns are noticed, 
and four Araliaceæ (to be continued). The same author else- 
where describes Hymenocallis Borrkiana, Lansbergia Caracasana, 
(Indie), Zamia muricata and Encephalartus Altensteinii, and he 
edits Splitgerber's Reliquiæ Botanicæ Surinamensis. Korthals 
writes on Borneo, Java, on Dipterocarpus Bandi, on the Myrtaceae 
and Ranunculacee of the Dutch East Indies; and some memoirs 
on the vegetation of those countries, which we could heartily wish 
to see translated into French or English: Molkenboer, on the 
Cryptogamie Flora of Holland: Bosel, on Dutch Algæ; Van 
Hoven on the plants of Maastricht, &c. We are in possession of 
three numbers of the work, and we trust it will be continued, and 
will prove a medium of making known some of the numerous 
treasures in the Musea of the Botanists of Holland. 
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Flora of FonrARsHIRE; by WinLiAM Garprner, Dundee, 1848. 
This little volume furnishes a Catalogue (for there are no generic 
or specific characters) of the Plants that have been detected in the 
rich Scottish district of Forfarshire, a spot celebrated by the 
researches of a Don and a Drummond, and in which the energies 
of Mr. Gardiner are now called forth. Few, indeed, are the 
botanists interested in Scottish plants who have not explored 
those glens and mountains, the latter of which attain an ele- 
vation of 3,000 feet, and certainly furnish more rare alpine 
plants than any region of like extent in Great Britain. The 
book, however, is not a mere catalogue: there are many interesting 
