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deux centuries récoltées en 1851, par M. Balansa, aux environs de 
Mostaganem. Les collections recueillies aux environs d'Alger, en 1850 
et 1851, par M. P. Jamin, et composées de 230 espèces, sont égale- 
ment sur le point d’être épuisées. M. Jamin, actuellement fixé à 
Biskara, sur la limite du Sahara Algérien, adressera prochainement à 
la Société une centurie de plantes de cette région. 
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PRITZEL, G. A.: Thesaurus Literature Botanice omnium Gentium inde 
a rerum Botanicarum initiis ad nostra usque tempora, quindecim millia 
operum recensens. 4to. Leipzig, 1847-1851. 
On former occasions we have noticed the early fasciculi of this use- 
ful work; the whole is now completed, with the seventh number, or 
fasciculus. The most useful portion is perhaps the alphabetical arrange- 
ment, according to the authors’ names, oceupying 335 closely printed 
pages in double columns, and including 11,538 publications; “ Opera 
anonyma” occupy 14 more, bringing the alphabetically arranged por- 
tion to 11,906 articles. Then follows the “ Pars Systematica,” in- 
cluding Historia botanices, Vite botanicorum, Effigies botanicorum, — 
Epistolarum collectiones, Bibliothecæ botanicæ, Plante sacrorum bibli- 
orum, Phytotheologi, Symbola e plantis desumta, Poemata de plantis, 
De plantis Veterum Critici, Plantarum mythicarum et magicarum his- 
toria, Collectanea Miscellanea et Diaria, Lexica varia botanica, Enco- 
mia botanices, Nomina plantarum, Methodus studii botanici, Termini 
botanici, Artes botanicæ, Collectio Herbariorum, Ectypa Plantarum, 
Horti botanici (public and private, in and out of Europe), Catalogi 
Hortulanorum, Musea varia, Itinera, Geographia plantarum, Floræ 
(arranged according to their respective countries), Calendaria Floræ, 
Plantæ fossiles, Monographiæ (arranged systematically, and very use- 
ful), Monographie plantarum officinalium, Cultura arborum pomifera- 
rum, Botanica hortensis, Cultura Florium hortensium, Botanica œcono- 
mica, Cultura et usus plantarum singularum, Plantæ tinctoriæ, Plantæ 
utiles, Materia alimentaria, Varia potus genera, Botanica salutaria, 
Cultura et usus arborum singularum, Materia medica vegetabilis, Me- 
dicamenta varia, Classes medicamentorum,—and a number of other 
heads, generally of minor importance: indeed, we think these are 
