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the other genera of the work have the names of other genera of authors 

 (often more than one) employed as divisional characters, but the prefa- 

 ratory remarks only can explain the exact sense in which they are 

 used. 



Article VII. , from the pen of the same author, is a very valuable 

 enumeration and revision of the genus Polypodium of Linnaeus, we pre- 

 sume, but excluding Phegopterh, and including species of Grammitis 

 and other Nudisori, with eloi 

 most part with specific characters, synonyms, etc. The number of such 

 species here given is 268. A very full Index completes the work. 



Grisebach, Professor, A.; Plants Caribe^E; or, Systematische 



TJntermclmngen iiber die Vegetation der Karaiben, insbesondere der 

 Insel Guadeloupe. 4 to. Gottingen. 1857. (From the seventh 

 volume of the * Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften zu Gottingen. 3 ) 



Great as has been the intercourse between Europe and the Carib- 

 bean Islands, and notwithstanding the researches of Sloane, and Plu- 

 mier, and Brown, and Swartz, and Jacquin, to say nothing of more 

 recent botanists, Bancroft, Wright, M'Fadyen, Purdie, Alexander, etc, 

 we may say with truth that more is known of the plants of Australia 

 and Tasmania and New Zealand, than of these fertile islands, which 

 lie nearer to us, and are more accessible than any tropical region of the 

 world. Swartz's c Flora Indise Occidentalis ' only includes the glean- 

 ings of a few islands ; M'Fadyen's ' Flora of Jamaica 5 had scarcely 

 reached beyond the Zeguminosa in De Candolle's arrangement, when 

 the author was cut off by death, and very little manuscript had been 

 prepared by him beyond that family; and the ■ Flora of Cuba * of Don 

 Ramon de la Sagra has in like manner been discontinued before it was 



half completed. 



Dr. Grisebach, the able Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Gottingen, has recently had the good fortune to become possessed of a 

 considerable herbarium of specimens, collected in Guadeloupe by M. 

 Duchassaing. Of these, with some additions, a Catalogue is published, 

 with synonyms and remarks of known species, and specific characters 

 of new species, accompanied with observations and habitats. The spe- 

 cies thus enumerated amount to 1486, including Ferns. 



