72 Notices and Analyses. 



on the Natural System equally comprehensive, methodical, and com- 

 plete. We trust that it will pass immediately into the hands of the 

 botanical students in all our universities ; and that it will be the 

 means of removing much of the (perhaps ignorant) prejudice, which 

 has certainly existed in this country against the Natural Method. 

 Let us not, however, be misunderstood : we give to all systems their 

 due credit — fiat justitia, mat ccelum. 

 Before we take leave of our excellent author, we desire to direct the 

 attention of botanists, in an especial manner, to most ingenious and 

 novel views respecting the reproductive organs of ferns and mosses, 

 which will be found extracted in our Botanical Collections. Not 

 altogether uninitiated in the mysteries of cryptogamic lore, we believe 

 that the hypotheses now suggested by him will throw new light upon 

 the analogies of plants, and give a new turn to inquiries concerning the 

 mode of eproduction in the more simple forms of vegetable existence. 



Loudon's Hortus Britannicus ; a Catalogue of all the Plants 

 indigenous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain, &c. &c. 1 vol. 

 8vo. London, Longman and Co. 1830. 



With other useful catalogues of plants cultivated in this country before 

 us, it would be no slight praise to say, that the present publication 

 stands decidedly at the head of its class. We cannot, however, 

 content ourselves with this general approbation ; for the work is not, 

 in fact, a mere catalogue, but combines much that will be found 

 interesting to the general, and even to the exclusively British botanist. 

 The main portion of the volume is occupied by the Linnean 

 arrangement, in which (to adopt the words of the title page) nearly 

 30,000 species are enumerated, with the systematic name and autho- 

 rity, accentuation, derivation of generic names, literal English of 

 specific names, synonymes, systematic and English, of both genera 

 and species, habit, habitation in the garden, indigenous habitation, 

 popular character, height, time of flowering, colour of the flower, 

 mode of propagation, soil, native country, year of introduction, and 

 reference to figures ; preceded by an introduction to the Linnean 

 system. All this, the work of Mr George Don, with the single 

 exception of assistance from Dr Greville in the cryptogamia, is 

 honestly given, and admirably and clearly condensed. The remainder 

 of the volume, a space of fifty-three pages, is devoted to a brief 

 introduction to the Natural System, followed by the Jussieuean 

 arrangement of nearly 4,000 genera, with short, but very useful and 

 interesting notices of each order. This part of the work is founded 

 upon the Account of the Natural System, contributed by Professor 

 Lindley to the Encycloptedia of Plants. We can conscientiously 

 recommend the book as not only the best of the kind ever offered to 

 the public, but as containing more information than the nature of the 

 work would lead any individual to anticipate. 



Botanicon Gallicum. Bv De Candolle and Duby. Part IL 

 Pp. 543—1068. Paris, 1830. 



This forms the second part of the above work. The first contains the 

 phanerogamous plants and ferns. This commences with the musci, 

 and contains all the other cryptogamia of France, or about 4000 

 species. It is consequently the fullest, as it is the best catalogue, 

 with specific characters, hitherto published, of the plants of that 



