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and constant hand-watering many better things will grow here than I had 
expected. I do not think any seeds will come amiss, except Arctic ones. 
We have an English gardener here, a good man. 
I received this day your parcel of seeds, quite wet by being in con- 
tact with Mr. Law's plants, but shall try the seeds, and perhaps they 
will not be spoiled. For it many thanks, and especially for the Victo- 
ria, which I must beg again next year rather earlier, say to leave Eng- 
land in February. One of the seeds had thrown out a kind of shoot . 
in the bottle, which had rotted and caused a fermentation, but the rest 
seem good, and if we can only manage to get it to flower, it will be an 
era in the history of the Botanic Garden. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
SARTWELL, H. P., M.D., etc. : Carices Americe Septentrionalis 
exsiccatæ. Part II. Penn Yan, New York, 1850. 
In our volume for 1850* we had the pleasure of noticing the first 
part of this valuable work, consisting of beautifully preserved specimens, 
correctly named, of the Carices of the United States, and we expressed 
our hope that it would meet with encouragement in this country as 
well as in the United States. We trust we may infer, from the ap- 
pearance of a second part, that such has been the case. In addition 
to the 70 species and varieties of the first Fasciculus, we have 88 now 
given; 158 in all neatly attached to folio paper within a portfolio. - 
The species are as follows :—71. C. disticha, Huds. 172. C. scabrior, 
Sartw. 13. C. Leavenworthii, Dew. 74. C. alopecuroides, Tuck. 
75. C. Cephalonica, Dew. 6. C. straminea, Schkh. 77. C. alata, Torr. 
18. C. crinita, Lam., var. 79. C. Woodii, Dew. 80. C. Meadii, Dew. 
81. C. pallescens, Z. 82. C. conoidea, ScAkh. 83. C. grisea, Wahl. 
84. C. flaccosperma, Dew. 85. C. Davisii, Schw. et Torr. 86. C. for- 
mosa, Dew. 87. C. gracillima, Schw. 88. C. virescens, Muhl. 89. C. 
hirsuta, Willd. 90. C. plantaginea, Lam. 91. C. Careyana, Dew. 92.C. 
platyphylla, Carey. 93. C. retrocurva, Dew. 94. C. digitalis, Willd. 
* Where the Author’s name is by mistake printed Cartwell. 
