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peces, 45 francs. Plantes du voyage de L. Schlim, dans les parties in- 

 explorees de la Nouvelle-Grenade, depuis 1848 jusqu'en 1852 : la ceu- 

 turie d'especes, 45 francs. Plantes coUectees par J. Triana, dans les 

 provinces d'Antioquia, Cauca, Choco, etc., en 1852 et 1853: la cen- 

 turie d'especes, 50 francs. 



"Indes Occidentales, — Plantes recueillies par J. Linden, dans les 

 Montagues Bleues de la Jamaique, dans les parties occidentales de Tile 

 de Cuba, ainsi que dans la province anterieurement inexploree, de San- 

 tiago de Cuba: la centurie d'espcces, 45 francs. 



" Collections speciales. — Telles que : Fougcres et Lycopodes, Orchi- 

 dees, etc. : la centurie, 50 francs. Mousses, Algues et Lichens : 30 fr. 



Death of Professor Moretti. 



The * Gazzetta di Milano ' announces the death of Professor Joseph 

 Moretti, at Pavia, on the 1st of December. — Bonplandia. 



NOTICES OP BOOKS. 



Die Familie der Tremandreen, etc. The Family of Tremandre-e, 

 and their relatiomhip to the Lasiopetalese, a coutribution to tJie de- 

 velopment of the Natural System of Plants; ^y Joachim Steetz, 

 M.D., etc. 



Dr. Steetz is a physician of considerable practice in Hamburg, who 

 devotes the few leisure moments his profession affords, to the pursuit 

 of his favourite study of botany, with great zeal and success. lie 

 some years since very carefully worked up, for the * Plantae Preissianne,' 

 several families of Swan Eiver plants, and amongst others the Treman^ 

 drece. Observing in a paper of M. Payen's, in the Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles, Ser. 3. vol, xiv. {Organogenie de la classe des Polygalinees)^ 

 that that author drew, partly froni his monograph, conclusions relating 

 to the structures and affinities of TreinandretjB^ which Dr. Steetz does not 

 believe to have been warranted, he has been induced to investigate the 

 subject with great care. The rich materials he has now had at his dia- 

 posal, much more abundant than those he could examine when describ- 

 iug Preiss's plants, have confirmed him in the views he then entertained 



