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in tufts about the size of a saucer, oceupying the very edge of the soil, 
where the latter meets this. Unfortunately no fructification was de- 
tected: that we trust is left to reward the researches of some future 
botanist, who may be led to visit this position of the storm-swept He- 
brides. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
SEEMANN, BERTHOLD: The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. HERALD, 
under the command of Captain Henry Kellett, R.N., C.B., during the ; 
years 1845-51. Part III., 4to, with Ten Plates. 
We are glad to be able to announce the appearance of the Third Part 
of this important work, with its accompanying beautiful plates, and 
continuation of the Flora of the Isthmus of Panama, including the 
families Caryophyllacee to Onagrariez (following the Orders of De Can- 
dolle), and containing a very interesting account of the “Cedron” (Si- 
maba Cedron, Planch.) of New Granada. Equally glad, too, are we to 
be able to state that, “in consideration of his eminent services in the 
cause of ‘science as an author and traveller,” the University of Göttin- 
gen,—his Alma Mater, we believe,—has conferred the degree of Doctor 
of Philosophy on the author. 
Dflanzenverbreitung und Lflanzenwanderung, eine botanische geographische 
Untersuchung ; von HERMANN HorrMANN, Dr. Med. etc. Darm- 
stadt, 1853. 
Under this title we have received a pamphlet by Dr. Hoffmann, 
which constitutes à very interesting contribution to the important 
question of the geographical distribution of plants. To this subject 
the author seems to have devoted much attention ; and the results at 
which he has arrived, by a painstaking collection of the areas of dis- 
tribution of Phanerogamous plants in North Germany, are highly de- 
serving of the attention of students of this branch of botanical science, 
though they may in many instances dissent from his special conclu- 
sions. : 
The author commences his paper by passing in review the questions 
