64 NOTICES OF BOOKS, " 
We do not approve of the author's arrangement of the descriptive 
matter, or diagnoses, in alphabetical order: the genera according to 
the letters of the alphabet, and the species also. We do not see why 
all these should not have come under their respective generic and spe- 
cific characters at page 43 and following pages, and at page 49. If 
indeed, they were arranged under any very familiar or popular names, 
it might be of some advantage thus to be referred to a good description. 
and the scientific name: but as this is not the case, and as a student 
must know the modern scientific name before he can find the descrip- 
tion, we see no reason for such an arrangement. The same objection 
holds good in the figures; for though we have spoken favourably of 
their disposition on the plates, that alludes to the artistic effect, and 
the clever manner in which a great deal is introduced into a small com- 
pass, even of the larger genera and species. Pilularia and Pteris appear 
on the same plate because they begin with P ; and, consequently, in 
the descriptive matter there is the same unscientific arrangement, which 
might easily have been avoided. We trust this arrangement will be 
changed in a new edition, which cannot fail to be soon called for. 
SEEMANN, BERTHOLD : Die in Europa eingeführten ACACIEN, mil 
Berücksichtigung der gärtnerischen Namen. 8vo, with two pe 
Hanover, 1852. 
This well got-up little work is unfortunately written entirely in the 
German language, and, therefore, only intended for German cultivators. 
2 It distinguishes 148 species of Acacia that are known in European gar- 
. . dens, of which 109 belong to $ PHYLLODINE®, 9 to BOTRYCEPHALS, 
10 to PULCHELLÆ, 12 to GUMMIFERÆ, 7 to VuLGAREs, and 1 to 
FriiciNæ. The beauty and fragrance of many of the species of 
genus, the gracefulness of the foliage, or the peculiar forms of the ph; 
lodia, and the ease with which they are cultivated in a temperate house, 
and especially the early period of the appearance of the blossoms, all 
conspire to render these plants eminently deserving of the attention 
horticulturists. The work is appropriately dedicated to Mr. Wendland, 
the able Inspector of the Royal Gardens at Herrenhausen, who was 
himself one of the first to direct attention to these plants, and to pub- 
lish excellent figures and descriptions of New Holland species. The 
plates, not particularly well executed, are coloured, and donet ei 
A. bossiæoides, All. Cunn., and A. rostellifera, Benth. 
