146 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
baria from the regions embraced by it; not only such 
as are collected by private individuals for the use of them- 
selves and their immediate friends, but those whose collec- 
tions have been dispersed among numerous subscribers, as 
in the case of MM. Bové, Aucher Eloy, Fleischer, Kotschy, 
etc. 
It will be issued in livraisons of ten beautifully-executed 
copper plates, and will form five volumes, large quarto, each 
volume composed of one hundred plates and about thirty 
sheets of text. Ten livraisons are to appear in the year, and 
the price of each livraison is fifteen francs—a very moderate 
sum, considering the execution and the details of the plates. 
Besides the botanical figures, the work will be accompanied by 
a new geographical map in four sheets, exhibiting the principal 
routes of botanical travellers, commencing with Rauwolf in 
1573, and extending to Coste in 1841, which cannot fail to 
be of great interest, including as they do, besides the names — 
of the travellers just mentioned, those of Tournefort, Hassel- — 
quist, Forskal, Sestini, Michaux, Olivier, Corancez, Bé-  . 
langer, Delaborde, Texier, Texier and Jaubert, Botta, Auchet — 
Eloy, Col. Chesney, Ainsworth, etc. Also General Trézel, 
Gen. Fabvier, Thuillier, Callier, Hamilton, and de Beaufort. 
A portion of this important map is already given with the — 
present numbers. It is prepared by M. le Colonel Lapie, 0n — 
a scale of 3,500,000 of a mile, and extends (from west 0 
east) from the coasts of Asia Minor to Mersched, and (from 
north to south) from the Caucasus to the embouchure of the b 
Persian gulf. : gum 
. We cannot give a better idea of the botanical interest d 
this publication, than by saying that the present livraisons — 
contain:—1, Texiera glastifolia, a new genus founded om, 
the old Peltaria glastifolia; 2, Boreava orientalis, a neW 2 
cruciferous genus; 3, Syrenopsis stylosa, ditto; 4, Silene — 
echinata, Oft,; 5, Tunica (Gypsophile sect.) brachypetals — 
n. 6, Dichoglottis (Gyps. sect.) tubulosa, n.; 7, Sedum Ca 
riense, n.; 8, Jaubertia Aucheri, Guill, ; 9, Valeriana alliarit- - 
folia, Vahl; 10, 11, Acroptilon Picris, DC.; 12, Heterochro* 
