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an order or a suborder; as, although the names of the. orders 

 are not uniform among themselves, nor those of the suborders 

 among themselves, not one of either kind, so for as we recol- 



Castle, Thomas, JSILS. of .Trinity College, '^Slftbr^&ev 

 M.R.C.S. Sic.: A Synopsis of Systematic Botany as con- 

 nected with the Plants admitted into the Pharmacopoeias of 

 London, Edinburgh, and Dublin ; accompanied by a 

 Planisphere, showing at one view the Class and Order of 

 the Medical Genera, according to Linnaeus and Jussieu. 

 Quarto, 17 pages. London, 1833. 4s. 6 d. 



An elaborate and ingenious production, and worth its price 



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Daubeny, Dr., Professor Wm§&&f^KS^^ 



the particular Station of each Plant* as well as-, the Geolo- 

 gical Character of the Spots in which it has been found. 

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The plan of the index is applicable to similar observations 

 on plants everywhere. z The plan is this : — Provide a table of 

 perpendicular parallel columns, and inscribe at the head of 

 each column one of the several conditions of station and ha- 

 bitation which your researches and observation may discover 

 to appertain to the plants of your neighbourhood; place the 

 names of the plants in the left hand column, and opposite them 

 insert the conditions of station or habitation of the plants in 

 one or other or more of the columns, according to the appro- 

 priate inscription of each. The conditions of station which 

 Dr. Daubeny has, in his Specimen, adopted, are those pro- 

 posed by De Candolle ; namely, aquatic, those of freshwater 

 marshes and very wet places, of meadows and pastures, of 

 cultivated soil, of rocks, of contiguity to dwelling places, of 

 forests, of thickets and hedges, parasitic. Dr. Daubeny's co- 

 lumns of habitation are five, and are inscribed — " In calcareous 

 rocks, viz. in gravel, as near Oxford; in calcareous rocks, in 

 oolite, as on Bullingdon Green ; in calcareous rocks, in chalk, 

 as near Pie n ley ; in argillaceous, as in the Oxford and Kim- 

 meridge clays ; in arenaceous, as in the Woburn and Shotover 

 sands.*' If tables similar to the one sketched were practically 

 filled up in a number of localities (and there is no reason why 

 they should not be in every locality), they would be the means 

 of amassing a body of information most interesting in itself, 

 and of exceeding value in relation to the subject discussed in 

 our last (p. 424-.) by Mr. Hewctt Watson. ^nJ-wb teqiDun 

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