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tropical species which vegetate in Arabia between the 25th 
and 30th degrees of north latitude, are found again in the 
Canaries.” 
For the characters of new species, remarks on genera and 
species, and geographical observations, we must refer to the 
little volume itself, which, though a brochure of only eighty 
pages, includes a great deal of valuable matter. 
The first fasciculus of the “ Otia Hispanica," besides a 
beautiful vignette title-page from the pencil of M. Berthelot, 
contains, on a folio size, five plates of new or little known 
Spanish plants, with full analyses and ample specific char- 
-acters and descriptions, with remarks, in Latin. The first 
species is the Holcus cespitosus, Boiss. 2. Artemisia Grana- 
lensis, 3. Cytisus tribracteolatus, Webb. 4. Adenocarpus 
Boissieri ; and 5. Salsola genistoides; under which is given a 
" Chenopodearum Itineris Hispaniensis Revisio."—We shall 
hail the appearance of the continuation of this valuable and 
scientific work. Mr. Pamplin informs us that copies are on 
sale at his residence, 9, Queen Street, Soho Square, London. 
5. The British Phenogamous Plants and Ferns; arranged on 
the Linnean system, and analyzed after the method of 
Lamarck, with a comparative analysis of the Natural 
Families. By Joun Rar, M.R.C.S. 
Tuis is an unpretending and very useful little manual of 
British Botany, where the whole of the classes, orders, genera 
and species of the British flowering-plants and ferns, are ana- 
lyzed according to the well-known binary system of Lamarck, 
and yet the genera and species are preserved in their Lin- 
næan arrangements. Mr Ralf is a well-known and very. 
indefatigable Cornish botanist, and has not compiled his 
Flora by the help of books alone, but by a diligent study of 
Plants themselves; and we heartily wish it the success it 
deserves, To one already versed in some degree in botany, 
the little volume is an- admirable pocket-companion, while 
