Bibliographical Notices. 349 



tats given to the plants in the Synopsis." This seems to us a very 

 valuable addition to the list of species, showing at a glance the coun- 

 tries in which each plant has been observed. Dr. Kelaart enume- 

 rates 456 species of flowering plants and ferns as native to Gibraltar ; 

 of these he considers forty as generally distributed in Europe ; fifty- 

 eight as South-European ; sixty-three as common to Europe and 

 Africa ; 1 74 common to the South of Europe and Africa ; thirteen 

 confined to Spain and Barbary ; ninety- six common to Europe, Asia 

 Minor and North Africa ; and twelve confined to Europe and Asia 

 Minor. There are 140 British species, 170 Madeira ; about as many 

 Canary species, 160 Sicilian, about two-thirds Maltese, and seventy- 

 three Azorean. The Iberis gibraltarica is the only species peculiar 

 to the rock, although several others derive their names from it. 



The volume is divided into four parts : Part I. gives a very full and 

 interesting account of the Topography, including observations on the 

 geology (in which the author deplores that the publication (Journal 

 of the Geolog. Soc. ii. 41) of the valuable geological account of Gib- 

 raltar by Mr. Smith of Jordan Hill did not take place until the greater 

 part of his work was printed), climate and medical statistics. Part II. 

 is a general account of the Botany. Part III. contains the Synopsis 

 of Plants growing in Gibraltar. Part IV. the Botany of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Gibraltar. And in the Appendix is Boissier's account 

 of his visit and the descriptions of new plants found by him. The 

 illustrations consist of three interesting views of the rock and a small 

 map : we could wish that another map, on a larger scale, had been 

 added. 



We can cordially recommend Dr. Kelaart's book. We have often 

 wondered that so few of the enthusiastic young botanists found 

 amongst the medical students of Edinburgh and other schools have 

 done anything to advance scientific botany, although the employ- 

 ment of many of them in the army or navy cannot but afford them 

 numerou>s opportunities. We trust that they will follow Dr. Kelaart'ft 

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n . y ,o s»Dnar. Works just Published. 



Outlines oJ^Structural and Physiological Botany. By A. Henfrey, 

 F.L.S. Part I. 



" The chief object of this work," observes the author, " is to give a 

 concise view of the actual state of our knowledge at the present time, 

 to the exclusion of all hypotheses, hazarded without sufficient ground 

 or negatived by experience. The various points are treated as they 

 rise progressively in complexity ; by this means the development and 

 morphology of structures and organs will be more easily explained, 

 and at the same time will conduce to the simplification of the sub- 

 ject, by leading to the recognition of an unity of plan throughout 

 the Vegetable Kingdom." 

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