54 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



The above are the sand-binding plants most frequently noticed along 



the Coromandel Beach. 



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samiim prostratum, etc., which co-operate in the work of conservation 

 to a minor extent ; these are less widely diffused along the coast. In 

 this notice I have only included those which seem obviously preferable 

 for the purpose specified. 



List of Sand-binding Plants : — Spinifex squarrosus, Ipomcea Fes- 

 caprcBy Eydrophylax mmitima^ MicrorJiyncus mrmentostis^ Pupalia orhi- 

 culata^ Fandanus odoratmimuSy Ehretia arenaria. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



G-EOGEAPHTE BoTANiQTJE Eaisonni^e, ou ExposiUou des Faits prin- 

 cipaux et des Lois concernant la Distribution GeograpJdque des Flantes 



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2 vols. 8vo. 



Paris. 



This most important work has long been anxiously expected, no less 

 by Botanists than by all other classes of Naturalists, for it has for 

 some years been known that M. Alph. de Candolle was engaged upon 

 it. It is not easy to select from a book so comprehensive, and in- 

 volving the details of such a multiplicity of subjects, any one or few 

 that could give an adequate idea, either of its extent, or of the skill 

 and learning that have been expended upon it ; nor to give even an 

 outline of those varied attainments which eminently qualify M. de 

 Candolle for the successful accomplishment of so great an undertaking, 

 without detailing his career as a Naturalist, from his pupilage under 

 his illustrious father, to the date of publication of the present work. 

 We can oidy say that the result of his labour is in every way worthy 

 of his parentage, his talents, and the many years of study he was de- 

 voted to it- 



The main subject is divided by M. de Candolle into two principal 

 divisions, togetlier occupying two large royal octavo volumes, each 

 containing upwards of 600 closely-printed pages. The first of these 

 volumes opens with three chapters on temperature, light, and humidity, 

 but is chiefly occupied with the subject of Geographical Botany ^ or the 

 study of the species, genera, and families of plants^ under a geogra- 



