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HOOKER'S JOURNAL OF BOTANY, AND KEW GARDEN MISCELLANY. No. 72, 

 January; No. 73, February; No. 74, March, 1855. 8vo. London: Lovell 

 Reeve. Price 2s. each, with a Plate. 



No. 72, January : Original Information (Richard Spence) Journal of a Voyage 

 up the Amazon and Rio Negro ; (George Bentham) On the South American 

 Triurideae and Burmanniaceae, from the collection of Mr. Spruce; (M. Louis 

 Kralik) Botanical Tour in the Regency of Tunis ; The late Professor Reinwardt. 

 Botanical Information Plaintain Fibre ; " The Big Tree" (Wellingtonia gigantca, 

 ZeW/.). We have here extracts from the Californian Farmer, a weekly journal, 

 published at San Francisco, relative to the "Big Tree," and written by a Dr. C. 

 F. Winslow, and which certainly appears to be composed in that " go-a-head" 

 style, so characteristic of the Yankees. Some of these gigantic sons of the forest, 

 measured by the Doctor, were ninety-four feet in circumference at the root, and 

 one of them was four hundred and fifty feet from head to foot (!). Another was 

 ten feet in diameter, at three hundred and fifty feet from its uptorn root (! !). Dr. 

 Winslow is very severe upon Professor Lindley for applying to it the name of 

 Wellingtonia, and, without much regard to the rights of priority, subtitutes, what we 

 suppose can only be regarded as a synonyme, that of the famous Washington. 

 Bourgeau's Plants of the Canary Islands ; M. Huet du Pavilion's Plants of Sicily ; 

 Mr. Botteri's Mexican Plants ; Mr." Spruce's Plants of the Amazon. Notices of 

 Books Stark's Popular History of British Mosses ; Archer's First Steps to 

 Economic Botany. 



No. 73, February : Original Papers (George Bentham) Flonila Hongkong- 

 ensis; (James Mosley) Extract of a Letter from; (Dr. Harvey) Extracts of 

 Letters from, dated Melbourne, September 5, and September 15, 1854 ; (Dr. 

 Harvey) Characters of some Genera of Plants recently discovered by Mr. James 

 Drummond in Western Australia. Botanical Information Note on the Vegeta- 

 tion of Roumelia and Bulgaria ; Nomenclator Filicum ; Botany of Ceylon, and 

 Botanic Gardens of Peradenia ; Expedition to Sicily and the Abruzzos ; New 

 Collections of Dried Plants ; New Proteaceae of Australia. 



No. 74, March: Original Papers (C. F. Meisner) New Proteaceae of Aus- 

 tralia ; (James Mosley) Extract of a Letter from ; (T. C. Archer) On Two 

 Fibres from Brazil, with a Note by Sir W. J. Hooker. Botanical Information 

 Information respecting the Mora Tree (Mora excelsa, Benth.} in Trinidad ; Note 

 from Sir John Bowring, relating to the Flowering of the Rice-paper Plant. " This,'' 

 writes Sir J. Bowring from Hong Kong, December 2, 1854, to Sir W. J. Hooker, 

 "is one of your desiderata the flower of the rice-paper plant. The flowers which 

 I enclose, grow in wand-like branches, some of them four feet long, which, to your 

 ail-learnedly botanical eye, will be a sufficient description. The plant from which 

 I plucked the flowers is about seven feet high, and covers, I should think, a cir- 

 cumference of twenty feet." Notices of New Books Index Filicum, a Synopsis of 

 Ferns, by T. Moore, F.L.S. ; Victoria Regia, or the Great Water-lily of America, 

 by J. F. Allen; Flora van Nederland en zijne overzeesche Bezittingen, by Tuiu- 

 bouw. 



