62 BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
Nees von Esenbeck, has lost nothing in point of value in the 
hands of the present editors. The plates, with the full 
analyses of the Genera, many of them drawn by Dr. Putter- 
lich himself, and the descriptions, are executed with as 
much care, and are deserving of the same praise as when we 
noticed them at an earlier period. The two last Fasciculi 
are chiefly devoted to Corolliflore and Composite, and we 
shall be happy to see a work so useful, especially to the 
student of European Botany, progressing more rapidly. 
Illustrations of Souru AMERICAN PrAuTS, by Jon MIERS, 
F.R.S., F.L.S., &c.—4to. Part I. 1846, 8 plates. Bailliére. 
Mr. Miers is too well known as a scientific traveller in South 
America, and by his admirable botanical memoirs in the Lin- 
neean Transactions and elsewhere, to need any commendations 
in this place. He has in the present work brought his faithful 
pencil into practice, and in this number, the first of a series of 
South American Solanee, he has executed all the drawings 
and lithographs with great fidelity and effect, accompanied by 
ample analyses. The descriptions, as the preface explains, 
are a reprint, with a few needful alterations, of the Memoir 
on Solanee already given in the last volume of the present 
Journal, to which however are added full descriptions of the 
plates. Plate 1 represents Salpichroa (Perizoma) rhomboidea. 
runcinatus and Himeranthus tridentatus. 5. Himeranthus ero- 
sus and Jabarosa integrifolia. 6. Dorystigma caulescens and 
D. squarrosum. 7. Trechonetes laciniata. 8. Pionandra (Ce- 
ratostemon) floribunda. 
This work is a most Jipoi contribution to the Floraof 
South America, and we have much pleasure in being able to - 
state that Mr. Miers is preparing a ies Memoir on iue : 
S. American Pour 
