NOTICES OF BOOKS. 383 



many publications of Eoxburgh, Hamilton, Wallich, Wight, etc., pa- 

 tronized and fostered by them (especially the *PIora Indica' of Dr. 



Eoxburgb). All this encouragement was bestowed at a time (1832) 

 when a great portion of their possessions was unexplored; while at 

 the present day, a work which we will take leave to say, though of little 



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pretensions, yet of the highest character and usefulness, is nipped in 

 the bud, for want of that aid which is so entirely in the power, and so 

 eminently to the interest, of the Company to give ; we allude to the 

 'Flora Indica' of Drs. Hooker and Thomson, of which the first volume, 

 octavo, of B65 pages (including the Introductory Essay, in English), 

 accompanied by a most valuable and accurate map, prepared purposely 

 to illustrate the physical geography of India and the botanical pro- 

 vinces, appeared last year, 1855. The work has been twelve months 

 before the public, and has elicited encomia from the first botanists in 

 Europe and in the United States ; but the pecuniary loss to the Authors 

 has been infinitely too heavy to justify their continuing the publication 

 without that support which has, unsolicited, been so liberally given by 

 our Government to the Colonial Floras already mentioned. It may 

 not be uninteresting to our readers to be made aware of some of the 

 circumstances that have attended this publication, and we propose to 

 state them at a future period. 



Gkay, Db, Asa : Manual of the Botany of the United States 



Ml 



I parts of the 



{The Mosses 



TTm. S. Sullivan t.") Wi 



illustratiug the Genera o/'Cryptogamia. 8vo. New York : 1856, 



This valuable contribution to the Botany of the United States is, the 

 indefatigable and learned author assures us, designed as a compendious 

 Flora of the northern portion of the United States, for the use of stu- 

 dents and practical botanists. " The first edition,"* he continues, " was 

 hastily prepared, to supply a pressing want. Its plan Iiaving beeu gene- 

 rally approved, has not been altered, although the work has been to a 



* 'Manual of the Botany of the Noi.»cr« TnitcJ States, from Xew England to 

 U'isronbin ;hu1 south to Ohio and Pcuiisylvania itidusjvc (The Moaoca auJ Liverwort* 

 by \\ , S. Sullivarit);* etc. etc. 



