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error into which we had inadvertently fallen, to the eflfect that this im- 

 portant work was to be closed with the 25th volume. It is stated in 

 the * Botanische Zeitunsr ' that arrangements are made for its continu- 



ance, and with greater regularity than ever. 



NOTICES OP BOOKS. 



Genera Plantarum Flor^ Germanics, Iconihus et jDescriptioniht(s 

 Illustrata^ Fasc. XXVII.; auctore Roberto Caspary, Ph. Dr. in 



Univ. Berlin. Botanicen privat, docens. Bonnse, 1853. 



Dr. Caspary, whose personal acquaintance we had the pleasure of 

 making during his residence in England, has, though a young man, dis- 

 tinguished himself by his ardent love of botany, and especially by his 

 several memoirs on vegetable physiology, and we are happy to find has 

 lent his name and his talents to the continuation of this important 

 work : " Opus," as the title-page further states, ** a Th. PL Lud. Nees 

 ab Esenbeck inchoatura, deinde a Prid. Carol. Leop. Spenner et Aloysio 

 Puttertick adjuvante Stephano Endlicher, dum vixerunt, et nunc con- 

 junctis studiis plurium auctorum continuatum." On former occasions 

 we have spoken favourably of this publication, and we find the same 

 care and pains are taken in the figures and descriptions as heretofore; 

 and, what is of great importance, diagnoses are always given where ne- 

 cessary, pointing out the essential characters, in a few words, by which 

 a genus is distinguished from its affinities. The drawings are all exe- 

 cuted by Dr. Caspary himself; and though we do not see quite the same 

 clearness and precision as in the former plates, much more is given in 

 the way of analysis of the anatomical structure, especially of the ovary 

 and ovules. The present fasciculus contains eighteen plates, including 

 certain genera of Cruc^fera, JRanunculacecs, and Fapateracm. 



