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the genera should not be so arranged, as indeed was the case in this 

 author's otherwise very useful c Popular History of British Ferns/ 



The publication, which is neatly printed on excellent paper, it is ex- 

 pected will appear regularly in monthly parts, and will contribute in 

 no small degree to render the study of Ferns more popular. 



Pappe, L. M. D. ; FLOKiE Capensis Medico Prodromus ; or, An 



Enumeration of South African Plants, used as Remedies by the Colo- 

 nists of the Cape of Good Hope. Second Edition. 8vo. 52 pages 

 and Index. 



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The excellent author of this work, Dr. Pappe, a physician, long re- 

 sident at Cape Town, is well known as a scientific botanist, familiar 

 with South African plants and their economic value. In our Eeport 

 on the " Vegetable Products, obtained without culture, of the Great 

 Paris Exhibition of 1855," we had occasion, at p. 114, to pass a very 

 high eulogium on, and to make copious extracts from, his c Silva 

 Capensis, or, a Description of South African Trees and Arborescent 

 Shrubs, used for technical and economical purposes by the Colonists 

 of the Cape of Good Hope/ copies of which accompanied the well-pre- 

 pared series of woods of the Colony sent to the. Exhibition. We also 

 alluded, in a note, to Dr. Pappe's ■ Contributions to the Cape Economic 

 Flora,' and to the ' Floras Capensis Medicse Prodromus.' 



The work which heads this notice, is a second edition of that last 

 mentioned. The first edition was intended as a commentary on a 

 choice collection of Cape medical drugs, sent by Messrs. S. H. Scheu- 

 ble and Co. to the Great London Exhibition of 1851 (and for which 

 they obtained a well-merited prize) ; and it is gratifying to know that 

 this was so well received that a new impression is now called for, and 

 Dr. Pappe has not failed to make corrections and improvements and 



numerous additions. 



Though modestly entitled an ' Enumeration,' the names of the plants 

 are all systematically arranged (according to the Natural Orders) and 

 accompanied by specific characters, the native, generally Dutch (some- 

 times the Hottentot) name, and remarks on the peculiar properties 

 mid uses ; affording much information, not only useful to the inha- 

 bitants of the Cape Colony, but to the student of Materia Mcdica in 



