466 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
pages of the Journal. The plates are of a very superior 
order, notwithstanding that the Author modestly claims 
* much indulgence for the many imperfections attending his 
first attempt at any work of the kind." This alludes, indeed, to 
the lithographs, which are executed by himself. Of Mr: Miers’ 
skill as a designer of plants, we have ample proof in his beau- 
tiful figures of certain Burmanniaceæ and Jrideæ in. the 
Transactions of the Linnean Society; and for many years, 
Mr. Miers was assiduously employed in South America 
making botanical drawings, and very full analyses of nume- 
rous rare plants, which his extensive travels and observant 
eye enabled bim to detect: not a few of these, and others, 
done with equal skill from Herbarium specimens, constitute 
the figures of the present * Illustrations." 
The two numbers now before us contain; PART I. 
Tab. 1. Salpichroa (Perizoma) rhomboidea. Tab. 2. Dunalia 
lycioides. Tab. 3. Acnistus cauliflorus. Tab. 4. Himeran- 
thus runcinatus and H. tridentatus. Tab. 5. Himeranthus 
erosus, and Jabarosa integrifolia. Tab. 6. Dorystigma caules- 
cens, and D. squarrosum. Tab. 7. Trechonetes laciniata. — 
Tab. 8. Pionandra (Ceratostemon) floribunda.— Part. "n 
Tab. 9. Pionandra (Euthystemon) capsicoides. Tab. 10. 
Sorema paradoxa. Tab. 11. Alibrexia rupicola. Tab. 12. 
Dolia verticillata. Tab. 13. Grabowskia obtusa. Tab. 14. 
Metternichia Princeps. Tab. 15. Sessea stipulata. Tab.16. —— 
Cestrum Organense.—Every figure is accompanied by amp? — P, 
and most accurate dissections ; and the whole is accompanied os 
by a reprint, with a few alterations, of a portion of Ou 
given in this Journal, (which will be continued here at - - 
different intervals), together with full descriptions of ^" d 
plates. This will be a standard work on South American — 
Botany, and ought to be placed on the shelves of every p 2. 
working botanist. E E di 
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