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the Great Basin Utah, to the vicinity of the Sevier or Nicollet Lake. 

 The collection was commenced atWestport, in Missouri, in June, 1853, 

 and finished late in October, and contains 125 species, of which 2 ap- 

 pear to be new, together with a doubtful Pine. 



3. Route near the thirty-second parallel of north latitude, under the 

 command of Captain John Pope ; the exact route not noticed, nor the 

 name of the collector; it affords a catalogue of 213 species, of which 

 14 are described as new, and 4 constitute so many new genera. The 

 drawings of the plates by Sprague are particularly beautiful. 



4. Of the botanical report of this route (near the thirty-fifth paral- 

 lel) we have received, at present, no letter-press, but Dr. Torrey has 

 favoured us with a series of plates, preparing for the illustration of this 

 Report, of which the following only bear names : — Crossocoma Califor- 

 nica, Thamnosma montanum, Whipplaa modesta, Hofmeisteria pluriseta, 

 Linosyris Bigelovii, Stylodine gnaphalioides, Calais Bigelovii and Calais 

 tenella, Calais cyclocarpha, Eriogonum lachnygonum, Obione Jiymenolyra, 

 Alisma Californica, Corallorhiza striata, Stropholirion Calif or nicum . 

 This is probably a richer collection than was found during any of the 



preceding routes. 



5. The last of these articles contains the Musci and Hepaticce of the 

 Route No. 4, by a gentleman every way as competent in these Natural 

 Families as Drs. Torrey and Gray are in general phaenogamic botany, 

 W. S. Sullivant, Esq. ; drawn in a very masterly style by Messrs. Sulli- 

 vant and A. Schrader. The two Orders embrace 68 species, 11 of 

 which are new, and figured with admirable analyses, on ten plates; 

 these are all European genera, and very much European forms. 



A Manual Flora of Madeira and the adjacent Islands of Porto Santo 

 and the Dezertas; by the Rev. Richard Thomas Lowi;, M.A. 

 8vo. Van Voorst. 1857. 



This is the first instalment of a Work on the Flora of the Madeiras, 

 which, if carried through in the manner in which the present part has 

 been executed, will be not only a most useful manual for local inquirers, 

 but a very valuable contribution to general botany. It is well known 

 that Mr. Lowe has been at work for a long time on the botany of these 

 islands. Indeed, as nearly tweniy-seven years have elapsed since he 



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