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professes to be the Linnsean Polypodium, but combining Grammitis, Sw., 

 (ex parte), but rejecting the extensive Phegopteris group.* 



De Vriese, Guil. Henr. ; Plants Bataym Orientalis, quas, in 



itinere, per insulas Archipelagi Indici Javam, Amboinam, Celebem, 

 Ternatam, aliasque, annis 1815-1821 exploravit Casp. Georg. Carol. 

 Reinwardt, etc. etc. Jussu Augustissimi Eegis Guilielmi III. 

 Fasc. I. Lugd. Bat., 1856. Large 4 to. 



Scarcely two months have elapsed (vide our January number of this 

 Journal, p. 28) since we gave a notice of the intended publication of 

 this work, and that notice was accompanied by a brief but interesting 

 biographical memoir of the life of Professor Reinwardt, by the editor 

 of the present work, Dr. de Vriese. 



In the present fasciculus, after the dedication of the grateful pupil 

 (De Vriese) to the memory of his excellent preceptor (Reinwardt), and 

 a short introduction, the genera and species of the Cyrtandraceous 

 group of Gemeracece are described. Dichrotrichum is a new genus of 

 Rwdt. MSS., destined to receive the Tromsdorffia elongata, Bl.P Bijdr., 

 and of R. Br. in Horsf. PI. Jav., under the name of D. Ternateum ; and 

 of this a noble figure (large folio) is given (Tab. I.). Gyrtandra longi- 

 rostris, De Vr. ; C. longipetala, De Vr. ; C. umbellata, De Vr. ; C. spi- 

 cata, De Vr. ; C. decurrems, De Vr. ; C. repens, De Vr. ; C. Sandei, De 

 Vr. ; C. heterophylla, C. rubra, C. mollis, and C. cordifolia are new spe- 

 cies of De Vriese of this genus, and of twenty-one here described which 

 were placed under Rhynchocarpus in Reinw. MSS. 



The Ilepaticce follow next, and are described by Dr. C. M. Van der 

 Sande Lacoste, most, if not all, of which have been previously pub- 

 lished. 



* The Editor regrets the impossibility of his doing justice to the views of theMcnrned 

 author of this publication, owing to the introductory matter being all written m 

 o , L * .__ __x_i_ i.i_ „™« ; a ih» m«p with the work to which allusion is 



case 



uermao, ana unionuuaieiY iuc aamo ™ *"~ —- , 



above made, ' Filices Ilorti Botanici Lipsiensis.' Ha views and all the nplanahoiis of 

 his terms, ete., are given in nearly twelve very closely printed folio pages in the German 

 language In the body of the work, most of the sectional names have no sort of 

 explanation. We can/ot donbt that the anthor, however »«* « mjy . .fcr rom 

 him in what we do understand, must have thrown much new and valuable light .on 

 the structure of Ferns, and both the works mentioned ... this note are accompanied 

 by a great number of figures and much accurate analysis 



