326 Notices and Analyses, 



it in eieome ; Guillemin near Hypecoum in Papaveraceae. The 

 only species known is W. heterophyUa. 7. Byrsicarpus, " Calyx 5- 

 fidus. Corolla 5-petaIa. Stamina 10. Styli 5. Pericarpium coriaceo- 

 carnosum, univalve, sutura longitudinali dehiscens, 1-spermiim : " 

 scarcely distinct from Zanthoxylum. The author has not yet gone 

 iarther than the end of Decandria. 



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Ueher den Zustand, Sfc. Letter- on the Botany of Japan. By 

 M. DE SiEBOLD. Nov, Act, Acad, Nat, Cur, Tom. XIV. p. 673. 



This sketch is extremely interesting. M. Siebold reforms the charac- 

 ter of Gonocarpus as follows ; — Calyx persistens, sepala 4. Corolla 

 A-petala, petalis linearibus cum calyce alternis concavis. Stamina 6, 

 calyci inserta. Stylus nullus. Stigma sessile, 4-Jidum. Fructus ut 

 apud Gcertnerum. The genus Weigelia he states to be different from 

 Selago, and to have a 2-celled, 2-valved polyspermous capsule ; but 

 this has been long understood, for it does not even belong to Choisy's 

 order Sdaginece. 



LitteraturcB Botanices Japonicce specimen. On the Botanical 

 Literature of Japan. By M. Siebold. Nov, Act, Acad, Nat, 

 Cur, Tom. XIV. p. 693. 



M. Siebold here gives the titles of ten works on botany, published in 

 Japan, which tend to shew the attention paid to that science in the 

 country ; some of them are accompanied with figures. The titles of 

 the works are Soo-Kwa-Sfuu, by Ho-tei, (1810); Kitsu-Hin, by 

 Roo-Kwa-Tei, (1797) ; Wehono- Samagusa, by Hokk'joo-Hoo- 



'■■'■■■■■ koku, (1808); Oo-hin, by Matsuwoka- Gentats, (1697); Bai- 

 hin, by the same, (1655); Kuwadan-Azagawo-dsue, by Kotendo, 

 (1816), on the species of Ipomocea; Soo-kwa-rjak'-guwa-siki, or a 

 short method of painting plants, by Kiesai, (1814); Kooweki-tsikin- 

 s'joo, by Owek'ia-skee, (1800), a work on horticulture; Jaku- 

 m'joo-S'jook, a manual of pharmacology, by Motabara-soosin, (1824) ; 



^'ifnii ■Jamato-honzoo, or a Flora of Japan, by Kaibara-Toksin, (1697). 



uiidi ■■■ 



ai ^fui- 

 yoyage autour du Monde, du Capitaine de Freycinet ; Partie 



Botanique. Botanical Part of Freycinet's Voyage round the 



World. By M. Ch. Gaudiciiaud. Paris, 1830. 



This work is now completed. The plates are accompanied by careful 



dissections. M. Gaudichaud's observations on the Cycadece are 



h , instructive. Perhaps the great fault of the work — and it is a fault 



'not peculiar to it, but shared by most modern productions of the 



same kind — is the too great division of species and genera j many of 



the new ones being certainly formed on too slight grounds. 



1. Account of the discovery of Bone-Caves in Wellington 

 Valley, about 210 miles west from Sidney, in New Holland. 

 (From the Sidney Gazette.) 



2. Additional information illustrative of the Natural History 

 of the Australian Bone Caves and Osseous Breccia. Communi- 

 cated by Dr Lang. 



