Esenbeck's Flora Germanica. 439 



popular prescriptions, and adds one which he himself has 

 discovered ; this we shall extract : — " for, notwith- 

 standing every precaution, persons who are much amongst 

 bees occasionally meet with a sting. The method I have of 

 late adopted, by which the pain is instantly removed, and 

 both the swelling and inflammation prevented, is, to pull out 

 the sting as soon as possible, and take a piece of iron, and 

 heat it in the fire; or, for want of that, a live coal (if of 

 wood the better, because it lasts longer), and hold it as near 

 to the place as I can possibly endure it, for five minutes : if 

 from this application a sensation of heat should be occasioned, 

 a little oil of turpentine, or Goulard cerate, must be applied. 

 I have found that the more prompt the application the more 

 effectual the cure." 



Of the plates, the first exhibits hives and other apiarian 

 apparatus. The second plate is devoted to the exhibition of 

 " Nutt's newly invented hive, for obtaining honey without 

 destroying the bees;" and chapter xvii., the last in the book, 

 is applied to a description of this hive and its parts, and the 

 using of it. 



The Apiarian's Guide is a thin volume for the price of four 

 shillings ; half a crown would have been an ample sum. 



Nees von Esenbeck, Th. Fr. Lud., Phil, et Med. Dr., in Uni- 

 versitate Friedericia Wilhelmia Rhenana Professor : 

 Genera Plantarum Florae Germanicae Iconibus et Descrip- 

 tionibus illustrata. Fasc. 1. 8vo. Bonnaead Rhenum, 1833. 



The cheapest and best work on the subject of the generic 

 characters of plants which we have ever seen. We have no- 

 ticed it in some detail in the Gardener's Magazine for August, 

 p. 451., but it would be a loss to the botanical readers of this 

 Magazine not to be informed of its existence. The first 

 fasciculus illustrates and describes the genera Pinus, Picea, 

 ^fbies, iarix, Cupressus, Thuja, Juniperus, Ephedra, 

 Taxus, 2?etula, .4'lnus, Carpinus, OWya, Corylus, Quercus, 

 Pagus, Castanea, Platanus, *Salix, Populus. To the illus- 

 tration of the parts of fructification of each of these genera, 

 which are twenty in number, one plate of figures and two 

 pages of description are given. The analysis of the parts of 

 fructification exhibited on the plates, well executed in 

 lithography, is in admirable detail (at least very admirable 

 in relation to the above genera, with the whole of whose 

 parts few are intimately familiar), insomuch that the plates 

 average 20 figures each. The London bookseller who has 

 this work resides in the Strand : his name, which is German, 

 we cannot remember. 



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