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pledge is correctly fulfilled, and the respectable list of contributors 

 shows the interest that British botanists especially feel in its success. 



The Botanical Tours are not among the least interesting portions of 

 the c Phytologist, 5 and our second article at the head of this notice 

 forms a separate little volume of seventy-five pages, reprinted and sold 

 separately from that work. It has moreover a dedication "to the 

 friends and supporters of the ' Phytologist,' " a preface, and a full in- 

 dex of the names of places, and of the rarer plants. The several chap- 

 ters treat of the most beautiful districts of the Scottish Highlands, and 

 carry the mind of the reader among the choicest vegetable productions 

 of that alpine region. 



As the 'Phytologist' is now conducted, it cannot fail to foster and 

 to increase the taste for British botany. 



Moore's Index Filicum. 



Having described the plan and usefulness of this work in our recent 

 numbers of the Journal, we allude to it here chiefly for the sake of re- 

 marking that the indefatigable author issues the parts as rapidly as the 

 very laborious task he has undertaken will allow. The fourth has re- 

 cently appeared, comprising the genera Adiantum, L. (commencing 

 with the species denticulatum, Burm.), to which nearly twenty closely- 

 printed pages are devoted, Aglaomorpha^ Schott, Alcicornium, Gaud., 

 Aleuritopteris, Pee, Allantodia, Br. (here reduced to A. Brunoniana, 

 Wall.), Alloesthes, M. (now abolished), Allosorus, Bernh. (here con- 

 fined to the European form, to ? robustus, Kze., of South Africa, and to 

 Allosorus Stelleri, Rupr., of Siberia, to which is referred the Pteris 

 gracilis of Mich., on the authority, we believe, of specimens from Dr. 

 Ruprecht himself), AllotTieeium (now referred to Pleopeltis), Alsophila, 

 E. Br., occupying nearly fourteen pages, Amauropelta, Kze., Amblia, 

 Pr., Amesium, Newm., Amelopteris, Kze., Ampehpteris, Kl. (Tteniopsis, 

 Auctt.), Ampkiblestra, Pr., Amphicosmia , Gardn. (to which many spe- 

 cies are referred from other Cyatheaceous Perns), Amphidesmium, Schott, 

 Amphipterum, Pr., Amphoradenium , Desv., Anapausia, Pr., Anapeltis, J. 

 Sm., Anaxetum, Schott, Anchistea, Pr., Anemia, Sw., Anemirhiza J. Sm. 

 (restored to Anemia), Anemidictyon, J. Sm., and Anetium, Splitz. 



The genera and species here adopted and now elaborated commenc- 

 ing with Abacopteris, and concluding with Anetium (alphabetically ar- 

 ranged), iuclude seventeen of the former, and 344 of the latter. This 



