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curred about the time that the article was consigned to the printer, has 

 prevented this intention from being carried out. All that could be 

 done, therefore, was sedulously to follow the manuscript, prepared with 

 M- de Jussieu's accustomed neatness and care. The few conjectural 

 emendations that have been suggested are, in all cases, enclosed in 

 brackets/* 



The annotations and remarks of the Editor possess the melancholy 

 interest of having been probably the last scientific production of the 

 last of the Jussieus. 



Adrien de Jussieu, the grand-nephew of Bernard, the only son of 

 Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (author of the 'Genera Plantarum secun- 

 dum Ordines Naturales dispositse'), himself a botanist worthy of such 

 a lineage, — a man admired and beloved by all who knew him, — died 

 without male heirs, on the 29th of June, 1853, aged fifty-six years, 



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thus closing a line illustrious without a parallel in botany for nearly a 

 century and a half. 



Compectus Begoniacearum. 



Notice is given in the 'Linnsea,' for March, 1854, of an attempt on 

 the part of our valued friend Dr. Klotzsch, to divide the genus Begonia 

 into genera; and no less than thirty-three are here proposed, and the 

 essential characters given there, — characters depending mainly on the 

 nature of the style, persistent or deciduous, the structure of the cap- 

 sule, the form of the placentse, more or less spiral character, etc. of 

 the forms of the lobes of the stigma, and of the anthers, the number 

 of sepals, etc. The materials employed appear to be chiefly, if not 

 entirely, well known species, that is, such as have been fully described 

 or figured; and though the total number of species brought under 

 their respective genera is considerable, we find them to be mainly of 

 South American origin, in which our gardens are so rich. We do not 

 find more than half-a-dozen noticed from the East Indies ; and we fear 

 that, in taking so circumscribed a view of species. Dr. Klotzsch is 

 hardly in a condition to determine the limits of the genera, or to say 

 what should constitute generic, or what mere specific, characters- 



