96 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
' SALICORNIA. 
We have received the following from the author of ‘The Tourist’s 
Flora’ :— 
“ You have attributed to me some opinions in the number for Feb- 
ruary of your ‘ Journal of Botany’ which I am sorry to see go out to 
the world as mine. I think hardly any two species are more clearly 
distinct than S. kerbacea and S. radicans, and I enclose the concluding 
paragraph of my paper, that you may see distinctly what my notions 
are on this subjeet.—JosgPH Woops.” 
“Tf I were to sum up the result of my observations of this year on 
the genus Salicornia, I should say that S. procumbens is a distinct 
species. That S. radicans and S.lignosa are certainly specifically dis- 
tinct from S. herbacea, but whether they are so from each other, and 
whether, if that be the case, S. /ignosa ought not to be considered as a 
variety of S. fruticosa of Linn., and the plant with tubercled seeds to 
be called megastachya, Y do not feel competent to decide." 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Museum Botanicum Luepuno-Batavum; sive Stirpium Exotica- 
rum Novarum ex vivis aut siccis brevis Expositio, additis figuris. 
Scripsit C. L. BLUME. Leyden, 1849. 
. Under this title we have received nine numbers, in large 8vo, each 
of sixteen pages, and one plate illustrative of new or rare plants. The 
descriptions are drawn up, and the figures made, chiefly from the 
author’s collections made in the Malay Islands, and in part from the 
* Herbarium regium Neerlandicum,” and from other public and 
private sources. Although the species introduced into this work are 
of a very miscellaneous character, yet a good many are brought together 
under one and the same Natural Order, and there is a great deal of 
illustration of certain families; such, for example, as the Melastomacee, 
Pangieæ, Bignoniacee, Gnetacee, Orchidee, Phytocrenee (including Mi- 
guelia, Meisn.), Asclepiadee, the genus Sarcosiphon in Rhizanthee (?), 
Myrtacee, Hydrilla in Hydrocharideæ, Lythrariee, Apocynee, Legno- 
tideæ, Rhizophoreæ, and Fetidia in “ Combretaceis affine.” Each plate 
bas three compartments, and as many Genera, extremely well executed,. 
—chiefly explanatory of genera in Melastomaceæ, Phytocrenee, Asclepi- 
_ adeæ, and Orchidee. We are prevented from noticing as we could 
wish, the splendid “ Rwmphia ” of the same author (Blume), in conse- 
quence of our being unable hitherto to complete our copy. 
