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whole Vegetable Kingdom ; together with the Uses of the 

 most important Species in Medicine, the Arts, and Rural 

 or Domestic Economy. Second edition of the author's 

 Introduction to the Natural System of Botany ; with nu- 

 merous additions and corrections, and a complete List of 

 Genera, with their Synonymes. 8vo, 552 pages. London, 

 1836. 185. 



This is a second edition of the author's Introduction to the 

 Natural System, and appears replete with essential improve- 

 ment. The following matter is a brief abstract of the author's 

 own notice of the points in which the second edition differs 

 from the first. 



The characters of the orders, &c, have been carefully re- 

 vised and corrected. Additional information is applied on the 

 sensible properties of the different natural orders ; and new, 

 more correct, or more extensive, views of their affinities and 

 analogies are presented. The orders are disposed in groups 

 of ranks intervening those of the classes and orders. . The 

 diagnoses of the orders which, in the first edition, were pre- 

 fixed to the characters of the orders are here struck out ; the 

 author has been disappointed in their utility, and has not seen 

 how to improve them enough to render them much better. 

 The analytical table of the characteristics of the order has 

 been entirely reconstructed, and, he trusts, upon a better prin- 

 ciple. He has collected under each natural order all the 

 genera that he has found referred to it in books, and has 

 added their synonymes. 7840 genera are allocated, and, 

 as are the synonymes, indexed. Some of the generic names 

 now appear for the first time ; and the author has " given the 

 characters of such genera in an appendix." There is a dis- 

 tinct " index of officinal and economical plants." 



Silvertoj), Charles, formerly Captain in the 14th Light Dra- 

 goons, retired Brigadier in the Service H. C. M., K. of 

 the royal and distinguished Order of Charles III., and 

 F. G. S. : A Geological Sketch of the Tertiary Formation 

 in the Provinces of Granada and Murcia, Spain. With 

 Notices respecting Primary, Secondary and Volcanic Rocks 

 in the same District and Sections. 8vo, 240 pages, 7 plates 

 of figures of sections, and 1 plate of a Topographic Sketch 

 of the Environs of Murcia. 1836. 105. Gd. 



It is hoped to present a notice of the contents of this in a 

 future Number. 



