160 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
IMPERFECTE COGNITARUM FLoraM RossicaM, IMPRIMIS 
ALTAICAM, ILLUSTRANTES. 
Professor von Ledebour, whose interesting Travels we 
noticed at some length in the first series of this work, is 
labouring most assiduously on the * Flora Altaica,” and 
« Icones Plantarum ;? on the former, which has now extended 
to 3 volumes, (and to the end of the class Diadelphia,) with 
the assistance of Dr. Ch. Ant. Meyer and Dr. Al. von Bunge. 
Here the plants, of which a considerable portion is new, are 
described with great care and minuteness; while in the 
* Icones," of which the third volume or ** Centuria," is now 
before us, contains coloured representations of the new or 
less known species, executed with a beauty and accuracy which 
would do honour to any age or country. We can speak 
with the more confidence to their accuracy, because the able 
author has munificently shared with us of his abundant trea- 
sures. The present fasciculus contains Leguminose. Of 
the Genus Ozytropis of which 20 were discovered in the 
Altai, 6 are here figured, and of Astragalus, of which 48 
rewarded the researches of Professor Ledebour and his com- 
panion, 14 are represented. 
Notwithstanding all that has been said respecting the back- 
ward state of literature and science in the Austrian Govern- 
ment, few countries possess more extensive Dotanic Gar- 
dens, and no country can vie with it in the splendour of 
its. Botanical Publications. At no period, antecedent or 
subsequent, have so many magnificent publications proceeded 
from one individual, as, during the latter part of the last 
century, from the celebrated Jacquin of Vienna. They were 
succeeded by the ** Gramina Austriaca," and * Icones Salicum,” 
of Dr. Host; and these again, in point of execution of the 
plates and choice of the subjects, by the almost unrivalled 
“ Plantarum Brasilie Icones et Descriptiones,” of Dr. Pohl. 
Nothing can exceed the beauty of the Francisia, (so named 
in honour of Francis I. of Austria, and of which one species, 
