' 280 ' French and German Books, 



Anon. : Attributed to J. Rennie, A.M., formerly Editor of the Foreign Me- 

 dical Journal^ and Author of a great number of Works, in almost every 

 Department of Literature : Conversations on Geology ; comprising a 

 familiar Explanation of the Huttonian and Wernerian Systems ; the Mo- 

 saic Geology as explained by Mr. G. Penn ; and the late Discoveries of 

 Prof. Buckland, Humboldt, Dr. Macculloch, &c. London. 8vo. Is. 6d. 

 Such a work was much wanted, and, from a slight glance at that before 



us, and what we know of the author, we have no doubt of that want being 



now ably supplied. 



JenningSy James, Author of Ornithologia, and other Works : The Pleasures 

 of Ornithology ; a Poem. London. 12mo, pp. 46. 



" To ally poetry to nature, to science, to truth, and to humanity, — to 

 make her a useful handmaiden in the accomplishment of great, good, and 

 important ends, — have been the objects in the present production." Mr. 

 Jennings deserves credit for so laudable an attempt, and, if he do not 

 receive so much praise as he could wish, will have the better reward of self- 

 approbation. 



France. 



Candolle, M. A. P.de, F.R.S. F.M.L.S. H.S. &c. of Geneva: 



1. Collection de M^moires pour servir a I'Histoire du Regne Vegetal. 

 Mem. 1.: sur la Famille des Melastomacees. Paris. 4to, 10 pi. 10*. 



The inability of the author, both in his Prodromus and Course of Botany, 

 to impart to certain points of the science those developements that seemed 

 necessary to fix the attention of botanists, has led him to publish, in a sepa- 

 rate form, a series of Memoires, serving as explanatory of the two above- 

 mentioned works. Ten Memoires will form a volume. This work will be 

 accompanied with plates, and may be regarded as a commentary on the 

 Prodromus. Each Mhioire is sold separately. 



2. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis. Pars tertia, sistens 

 Calyciflorun* Ordines 26. Paris. 1 vol. 8vo. Price 12 frs. 



Germany. / 



Link, H.F.,von, M.D. Prof, of Bot. in the Univ. Berlin, Direct. Bot.Crard. ; 



and F. Otto, C.M.H.S. &c.. Inspect. Bot. Gard. : Abbildungen auserlesener 



Gewachse, &c. Figures of select Plants from the Royal Botanic Garden 



of Berlin, with Descriptions and Directions for their Culture. Berlin. 



Vol. L 4to, pp. 128. Sixty plants on sixty coloured plates. 



This work was commenced in 1820, and has appeared in parts at ten 



indefinite intervals since that period. One volume is now completed, and 



the work, we are informed by M. Otto, will be continued in a smaller size. 



The plates are superior in execution to anything that has been produced in 



this country, unless we except Dr. Hooker's Exotic Flora; the descriptions, 



which are in Latin and German, as far as can be judged by comparing them 



with the plates, are succinct and accurate. The whole of the sixty plants 



considered select at Berlin, are reckoned fine plants in this country ; the 



following are still rare here, and those of them marked *, we are informed 



by Mr. George Don, are not to be met with in British gardens : 



.^ristolbchia ringens, Geodbrum pictum. Melaleuca can^scens. 



^Vum pedatum. Gesnfena bulbbsa. Mesembrianthemum frkgrans. 



Begbn/a argyrostigma. *He)m/a salicifblia. Mesembri^nthemum Salm/i. 



Begbnirt wlmif blia. Hornemannia ovata. Nic&ndm anomkla. 



Br&ssirt maculata. *Jaborosa runcinata. Passiflbra discolor. 



Caprkria lanceolata. *Lantkna SellowJa/io. Rhipsalis salicornioides. 



Ceropfegia aphylla. *'L6bh\ia cuneif blia. *Scoparia flava. 



*Cyliidium stapeUoJrfes. Macr6gyne convallaria^f blia. *Sida insequ^lis. 



Diadcia Bergiawa. JftMalvaanomala. *Slda rbsea. 



Eucalyptus longifblia. Maniilea angustif blia. Soldndro viridiflbra. 



♦Ferraria pusilla. Manulea tomentbsa. 



• Fuchw'a excorticSita. *M4riGa longif blia. 



