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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Flora comitatus Pesthinensis in uno volumine compressa. Auctore 

 Jos. Sadler, ed. secunda. Pesth, 1840. 



We have now again the pleasure of introducing to the notice of 

 our readers one of the valuable local floras of the continent, most of 

 which are so full of valuable notes upon the distinction of species, 

 and without which it is quite in vain for us to endeavour to identify 

 our native plants with those of the other European countries. The 

 work before us, containing 1429 species of flowering plants, is oc- 

 cupied with the description of the plants growing wild in the county 

 of Pesth in Hungary, and presents a flora, as might be expected, in 

 many points differing materially from that of our own country, 

 although singularly resembling it in others. Containing as it does so 

 large a portion of the Hungarian Flora, this book cannot but be in- 

 teresting to such of our botanists as extend their researches upon 

 European plants to so distant a country, and to all such we can 

 strongly recommend it. 



Supplement to English Botany. No. 51, October, 1840. 



We have just received this new Number of Mr. Sowerby's excel- 

 lent and beautiful Supplement to English Botany, which contains 

 plates and descriptions of Achnanthes brevipes, Odontella aurita, 

 Erucastrum incanum, Arthrolobium ebracteatum, Laminaria Fascia, 

 and Asperococcus compressus. We trust that Mr. Sowerby is now 

 about to continue this work at more regular intervals, for the long 

 interval which has elapsed since the appearance of No. 50, appears 

 to us to be quite unaccountable, since we are well aware that defi- 

 ciency of matter is not the cause. 



In the Press. 

 A History of British Alga? (Sea-weed), by the Hon. W. H. Harvey, 

 in 8vo. 



A Journal of a Winter at the Azores and a Summer at the Baths 

 of the Furnas, by Henry Bullar, Esq., and Dr. Joseph Bullar, in 

 2 vols. 8vo. 



A Grammar of Entomology, by Edward Newman, a new edition, 

 almost entirely re-written, 8vo. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



DIANTIIUS PLUMARIUS, LINN. 



In the ' Flora Hibernica' (p. 40.), Mr. Mackay introduces this plant 

 as a native of Ireland, from two stations near to Cork, on the au- 

 thority of Mr. J. Drummond, and refers to a specimen in the herba- 

 rium of the late James Brodie, Esq., now in the possession of David 

 Steuart, Esq., of Edinburgh. Through the kindness of that gen- 



