. BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
each description occupies from two to four folio pages.—** Depuis 
quinze ans," says M. Corda, in the Preface, ** nous sommes occupós des 
belles formations qui distinguent les champignons; ce furent surtout les 
Coniomycétes et les Mucédinées qui captivérent notre attention et con- 
centrérent tous nos efforts. Analyser ces apparitions merveilleuses à 
l'aide d’excellents microscopes, voilà ce qui compta longtemps parmi nos 
plus vives jouissances. Nous déposons done dans ces feuilles la descrip- 
tion d'une suite coordonnée d'individus appartenants à cette création 
de merveilles, invisibles à l'ceil nu, que nul pressentiment n'avait encore 
révélé à l'esprit; d'une création de la mort, née de la pourriture, ma- 
tière chaotique, pour ainsi dire, d'étres anéantis, transformée en in- 
dividus éthérés, qui sont aux yeux scutateurs du natralisie à intel- 
 ligence active et profonde les précurseurs de types d'un monde végétal 
supérieur.” —There are twenty-five genera and twenty-six species de- 
scribed and figured. 
Dn. WranT's cones Plantarum Indie Orientalis. 
.. We have, more than once, noticed with no small commendation this 
work in our Journal; and the Orchidaceous portion hitherto published 
at p. 252 of the third volume of the present series, and more fully at 
pp. 190, 191, of our present volume, when 139 plates were devoted to 
. excellent representations, with dissections, of the Indian species of this 
family. Another portion of Orchidaceae similar. to this in extent (and 
_ we are sure in value too) is now on its way to England; and a third 
. portion, consisting of 160 or 170 plates, is nearly ready, 100 of them 
being already executed ; in all between 400 and 500 plates will be given 
illustrative of this Natural Order alone. Previous to Dr. Wight’s return 
to Europe in the spring of 1852, this incomparable botanical work, 
with upwards of 200 plates, will be brought to a conclusion with, we 
believe, the sixth volume, and will include a monograph (with figures) 
of the Indian species of the genus Pouzoleia (in Urticee), raising the 
number of species, from the 15 or 18 hitherto known, to about 55. 
. In England we have reason to know that our learned and indefatigable 
friend will devote his time and his energies to the concluding volume 
of his * Prodromus Flore Peninsule Indis Orientalis." | 
