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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Reichenbach, L., et H. G. Fil. ; Icones Florae Germanics et 



Helvetica, simul Terrarum adjacentium, ergo Medio Europse. 

 Vol. VIII. Decades 1-8, color. 4to. Leipzig. 



This is a very remarkable work, in illustration of the Botany of 

 Middle Europe, begun some twenty-three years ago, and continued, 

 with a slightly altered title, to the present day. The \ English Botany' 

 of Sir James E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby was long considered to be 

 the only completely illustrated Flora of any given country in Europe. 

 The present promises to be equally satisfactory of a much greater ex- 

 tent of country than Great Britain and Ireland, and is superior in these 

 two respects : (1) that the plates are issued in Families, and (2) the 

 dissections and analyses are very superior. Whether the great multi- 

 plicity of species is to be considered an improvement, is a question 

 upon which different views may be anticipated. The present volume 

 (eighteen) commences with the Labiatce, to which the eight decades 

 now issued are all devoted, as will no doubt several future ones. The 

 very fact of illustrating all the species of a genus, and even of an 

 Order, within a short space of time, implies that a great number, pro- 

 bably the majority, of the figures are drawn from dried specimens. 

 But the universally acknowledged botanical skill and artistic talents of 

 the authors warrant the assurance that both figures and dissections 

 are true to nature. The work too is economically published. 



Filices Exotica. 



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plates, from the pencil of Mr. Fitch, a work on Exotic Ferns, including 

 the Lycopods (Lycopodiacece), especially of such as are most worthy of 

 cultivation. 



Annates Botanices Systematica. 

 The useful work under the above title, which was suddenly brought 

 to a close by the death of the industrious editor, Dr. Walpers, is about 

 to be continued by Dr. Carl Miiller, and we trust soon to be able to 

 notice the first Part of Vol. IV., which is, we are told, published. 





