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liniana, De Vriese, to be described doubtless in the succeeding 
livraison. 
The drawings are chiefly executed by M. P. W. M. Trap, and 
do credit to the age and country. 
PnrrzEL, G. A.; Taesaurus Lireratur# Botanica, &c. 
We take pleasure in announcing the appearance of the fourth 
fasciculus of this very useful book, which carries on the work, m 
the alphabetical arrangement of author's names, as far as “Wessen,” 
and to the number of titles of works, 1117. Thus the alpha- 
betical order will soon be completed, and then pipe “les livres 
anonymes etles publications périodiques ainsi qu'une table des 
Renvoyez." 
Prant# Pretsstanm; sive Enumeratio Plantarum, quas in Aus- 
TRALIA OCCIDENTALI ef MERIDIONALI-OCCIDENTALI annis 1838— 
41 collegit Lupovicus Preiss, Ph. Dr.: partim ab aliis partim 
a se ipso determinatas descriptas illustratas, edidit CHRISTIANUS 
Lenman. 2 vols, Hamburgh, 1844-1847. 
We are glad to be able to announce the conclusion of this 
highly useful work on the Botany of Western Australia; for the 
editing of which, the botanical world is much indebted to Dr. 
Lehmann. The second volume includes a considerable number of 
Cryptogamiæ (though our English Herbaria are still rich in un- 
published species of that colony,) and an appendix, together with 
a double index : the first following the order of the numbers in the 
distributed collections of Dr. Preiss; the second alphabetical. 
Travtverrer, Dr. E. R.; PLANTARUM IMAGINES e? DESCRIPTIONES 
FLoram Rossicam iJJustrantes. Monachii; 1844. Fasc. 1-8. 
We have elsewhere noticed, and with commendation, this useful 
Work. Each fasciculus, in small 4to, contains five neat outline 
