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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



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ScHOTT, Henry; Synopsis Aroidearum, comj)lectem Enumeraiionem 

 Systematicam Generum et Specnerum hujus Ordinis. Vol. I. 8vo. 

 Vindobonae, 1856; 153 pages. 



The name of Schott has loner been familiar to the student of Aroi- 



all 



deous plants, and the collection of living Aroidea at Vienna, under his 

 charge, has a ^vide reputation. In our Journal for 1855, p. 224, 

 July number, we noticed, with great commendation, the two Fascicles 

 in folio of the great work on Aroidece, alike admirable in matter and 

 illustration. We do. not learn that' any more of that work has been 

 yet issued, and probably the slowness of the progress of it, owing to 

 the careful execution of the plates, has induced the author to lay before 

 the botanical world a synopsis or a systematic enumeration of all known 

 genera and species of the Tamily, giving characters or remarks on the 

 genera, and observations on, or characters of, the species. 



In this useful little work the Aroidece are divided into two great 

 groups— 1, DicLiNEs, and 2, Monoclines ; the first Part now before 



1, Cryptocoryne i 2, 

 Lagenandra; Z, Amirosinia; 4:, Arisarum j ?>,FineUia; 6, Biarum; 

 7,IscJiarum; 8, Gymnomesmm; 9, Arum; l(i,Emiwium; W, Typho- 

 nium; I'i , Theriophomm ; IZ , Helicodiceros ; U, HelicopAyllum ■ 15, 

 Brancunculus ; 16, JDochafa; 17, Sauromatum ; 18, Ariscema ; 19, 

 Zomicarpa; %^ , Plemonium ; 21, ConopJiallus ; 22,Brac7iyspatha; 23, 

 Tythonium; U, AmorpJiopUllm ; 25,Ariopsis; 2Q, Colocasia ; 27, 

 Eemusaiia; 2S, Gomianthus ; 29,Ahcasia; 30, Peliandra; 31, Ca- 

 ladium; 32 , XantJiosoma ; 33 , Acontias ; 34:, Syngonium ; 35, Ancho- 

 manes; 3Q, Zamioculcas ; 31 , MontricJiardia ; 3% , TUlodendron ; 39, 

 Culcada; 40, Zantedeschia ; 41, Homalomma; 42, Cyrtocladon; 43, 

 Schismatoglottis ; 44, Aglaonema ; 45, SpatJiicarpa ; 4&, Asierostigma ; 

 47, meffenbachia; 48, Uichardia ; 49, Stylochiton. 



"W e shaU welcome the appearance of the second, and, we presume, 

 concluding part of this Synopsis ; and no less so the continuation of 

 the illustrated " Aroide^ " of this author. 



