180 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIKS. 



' Systema Vegetabilium.' This Herbarium contains not only the 

 types of the plants described by Eoemer, but also numerous 

 specimens communicated by his contemporaries of the novelties 

 described by them. The European portion of the Shuttleworth 

 Herbarium includes the extensive collections formed by Shuttle- 

 worth himself in Central Europe ; by Frivaldsky, m Turkey ; 

 Eichter, in Hungary ; Mabille and Debeaux, in Corsica ; Bourgeau, 

 in the Balearic Islands and the Spanish Pyrenees ; Willkomm, in 

 the south of Spain ; besides the published collections of Eeichen- 

 bach, Fries, Huet de Pavilion, &c., &c. Numerous critical notes 

 by Shuttleworth greatly enhance the value of many of these 

 specimens. The ijlants of the Mediterranean region are repre- 

 sented by collections from Algiers, by Auzendi and others ; from 

 Egypt, by Du Parquet ; from the Levant, by Aucher-Eloy and 

 Kotschy ; and from Ehodes, by Bourgeau. After the European 

 collections, Shuttleworth devoted much attention to the plants of 

 North America ; and he has amassed a very large series, especially 

 from the Southern States, collected by Lindheimer, Beyrich, 

 Fendler, Blodgett, but especially by Eugel, whose extensive collec- 

 tions, all carefully worked out and annotated by Shuttleworth, are 

 a very valuable addition to the Museum Herbarium. The American 

 collections include also the plants of Jurgensen, Hartweg, and 

 Berlandier, from Mexico; of Hostmann, Linden, Gardner, Jameson, 

 Matthews, and others from South America. The Asiatic portion 

 of the Herbarium contahis a very fine and extensive series of the 

 plants of Zollmger, from Java and Japan ; of KoUmann, from 

 Java ; of Cummg, from the Philippines; of Fortune, from China; 

 of Walker and Lobb, from Singapore ; of Campbell, Christie, 

 Heifer, and Wallich, from India ; and of Karelin and Kuiloif, 

 from Songaria. From Africa, there are the plants of Schim^jer 

 and Kotschy, from Nubia and Abyssinia ; of Brunner, from Senegal 

 and the Cape Verde Islands, and of Drege, Ivi-auss, and others, 

 from South Africa. The Australian collections comprise the 

 plants of Drummond, Preiss, Sieber, and others. Several large 

 genera, lilie Hicracimn and Sali.v, and several Natural Orders, as 

 Ci/perace(£, Oramiuea, and Filices, have received special attention, 

 and are represented by a carefuUy named and often extensively 

 annotated series of specimens. The Cryptogams include the col- 

 lections of Schaerer, Desmazieres, Mougeot and Nestler, Kiitzing, 

 Crome, Eugel, Braun, Schmidt and Kunze, Wartmann and Sclienk, 

 Salwey, and many others. 



The herbarium of Hepaticce formed by Dr. Hampe is not only 

 very extensive, consisting of upwards of 6,000 labelled s^Decimens, 

 but it contains a very large proportion of authentic S2)ecimens, 

 either the types of species described by Dr. Hampe or communicated 

 by the describers, from all parts of the world : the whole collection 

 is arranged according to Lindenberg and Gottsche's '* Synopsis 

 Hepaticarum." 



Sets of the plants collected during the recent Government 

 expeditions of the "Challenger;" of the "Discovery" and "Alert," 



