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is not bordered with stalked glands." "The concave, crispy surface 

 of the fronds will suffice to distinguish the plant, without recourse to 

 the more minute characters residing iu the scales and indusia." 



Tab. XXVIII. is Lastrea Oreopteru^ a species which speaks for itself, 

 and whose specific identity has never been called in cjuestion. But it 

 is one of those works of Nature which mocks at our generic distinc- 

 tions. The indusium, small at any time, is frequently wholly wanting, 

 or at any rate invisible, and thus has as good a claim to be ranked 

 with Polypodium as with Lastrea^ and M. Fee still ranks it in his 

 group Gfvmnosoria, 



Hooker, Dr. Joseph Dalton: TAe Botany of the Antarctic 

 Voyage. — III. Flora of Tasmania. Part I. 4to. Twenty Plates. 

 London : Lovell Reeve. 



Of the 'Botany of the Antarctic Voyage ' two great and important 

 portions are completed^ viz. : 



1- The Flora Antarctica^ comprising the botany of Lord Auckland's 

 Group and Campbdlh Island^ the vegetation of wliich is so peculiar as 

 to merit a separate consideration ; and Fuer/iay South Patagonia^ the 

 Falldand Islands, Pahner^a Land, and the adjoining groups, as the South 

 ShetlandSy South Georgia, and, proceeding eastward, Tristan d^AcunJia 

 and Ktrguelenh Land. Their flora is included in two large quarto vo- 

 lumes, illustrated by 198 coloured plates, many of them representing 

 two or moj-e species, 



2. The Flora Nov^-Zelandice^ embracing the several islands of that 

 group; also in two volumes large folio, with 130 coloured plates. 



The indefatie:able author has now commenced the third and hast 



the Flora of Tasmania. The general plan, 

 the descriptive portion and the plates (drawn and lithographed by Mr. 

 Fitch) correspond with what has already appeared, and the same pains 

 are taken iu every part of the execution. The present number (ar- 

 ranged according to De Caudolle's 'Prodromus') extends to the com- 

 mencement of Legundnosce, Very valuable observations are iutroduced 

 on the geographical distribution of the species, and much more will be 

 said on that subject when the Author publishes the ''Introductory 

 Essay to the Classification of Australian plants," which will be nj)pcnded 

 to this work. The important collections of Dr. Mueller in the Aus- 



