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Zealand Plants^ chiefly collected about Wellington. The number at 

 present sent is rather under 100 species, which are oflfered for sale. 

 Price at the rate of 35^. the hundred. More may be expected soon. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Illustrations o/^ Orchidaceous Plants : compriung figures of the ynost 

 interesting and beautiful Genera^ partly selected from the * Botanical 

 Register* and 'British Elower GtixA^ni* popular descriptions of all 

 the cultivated Species^ after the nomenclature of Dr. Lindley's * Folia 

 Orchidacea/ and directions for their Cultivation; edited 6y Thomas 

 MooRE, F.L.S. London: Willis. Large 8vo. Plates, coloured 

 or uncoloured. 



Of this work the 2nd number is now before us, containing six plates 

 of Odontoglossa. The intention of it is, as expressed in the advertise- 

 ment, " to place within easy access of those who take an interest in 

 their study and cultivation, a series of accurate figures, which shall de- 

 lineate, in some measure, the endless variety of structure and appear- 

 ance in these grotesque-flowered plants^ and at the same time portray 

 with accuracy the most popular kinds. This the publisher is enabled 

 to do in consequence of his having become possessed of the original 

 plates, from which the numerous fine figures of these plants, published 

 in the later volumes of the ' Botanical Hegister,' under the immediate 

 superlutendence of Dr. Lindley, were obtained." To these it is pro- 

 posed to make such additions as will render the volumes illustrative of 

 all the genera w^orthy of cultivation. The plan of publication is here 

 similar to that determined on by Dr. Lindley in his 'Folia Orchidacca,' 

 viz. that of completing one genus or more in each part, except in the few 

 cases in which the larger genera will require to be divided into portions 

 of convenient length. It is announced, too, that the genera w^ill be 

 published nearly in the order in which they occur in the * Folia Orchi- 

 dacca:' so that the book may be considered as exhibiting illustrations 

 of that important publication. 



Mr. Moore we are sure, will conduct the editorial part in a credita- 

 ble manner. The Number before us is devoted to the following species 



