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the rarer plants of the northern Scottish mountains, under the title of 

 Plants Rariores Abredonenses ; the set to consist of four fascicles, price 

 21s. each, containing 100 species, well preserved, correctly named, 

 mounted, and enclosed in a case. This will afford a good opportunity 

 for those untravelled botanists who take interest in the Scottish Flora, 

 to add some of the northern rarities to their collections. The first and 

 second fascicles will consist of Flowering Plants (including the Hieracia 

 and other critical species) ; the third and fourth, the Ferns and other 

 Cryptogamic rarities. Some of Mr. Sutherland's plants which we have 

 seen, were exceedingly well selected and preserved. 



Cape de Verde Islands. 



Mr. Nathaniel H. Mason (3, Bed Lion Square, London), well known 

 for his natural history researches in Madeira, has it in contemplation 

 to proceed to the Cape de Verde Islands during the ensuing winter, 

 and pass ten or twelve months there in forming collections of plants, 

 shells, etc. ; and will be happy to receive orders from persons desiring 

 to possess the products of these little-known African islands. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



An Elementary Course of Botany, Structural, Physiological, and Sys- 

 tematic, with a Brief Outline of the Geographical and Geological 



Distribution of Plants; by Arthur Henfrey, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 Professor of Botany in King's College, London. 



To have three good introductory works upon one branch of science 

 to notice cannot often occur in one year ; but so it has happened in 

 this; we have scarcely perused Gray's 'Elements' and Berkeley's 'In- 

 troduction to Cryptogamic Botany,' before we find ourselves called 

 upon to enter upon the merits of another contribution to the same 

 class of botanical literature. In saying this, we by no means wish it to 

 be understood that we profess to notice all introductory works ; on the 

 contrary, to do so must be an exceptional duty, and only called for 

 when these are published under peculiar circumstances ; as when the 

 subject is abstruse and involves a great deal of original research, as in 



