192 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Mizns, Jony, Esq. ; Illustrations of Sour AMERICAN m 4to. 
Part II. 8 plates, and Part III. 6 plates. London.  Bailliér 
Since our first notice of this valuable publication (Lond. Journ. of 
Bot., vol vi, p. 62), two more fasciculi have appeared with plates 
full of the most careful analyses,—a continuation of the illustrations of 
the Nat. Ord. Solanee. Plate IX. exhibits Pionandra (Eurythystemon) 
- capsicoides; Pl. X., ema paradora ; Pl. 4 Alibrexia rupicola ; 
Pl. XIL, Dolia vermiculata ; Pl. XIII., Grabowskia obtusa ; Pl. X 
Metternichia Princeps; Pl. XV., Sessea stipulata ; Pl. XVI., Ont 
Organense; Pl. XVII., Fabiana denudata ; Pl. XVIII., Nierembergia 
rivularis, and N. kippomanica ; Pl. XIX., Nierembergia stricta, and 
N. rigida ; Pl. XX., Nierembergia linifolia, and N. anomala ; Pl. XXI., 
Vestia lycioides ; Pl. XXIL., Nicotiana (Petunioides) cirrhoides. Such 
a work as this leaves very little to be described of the Natural Family 
of which it treats. 
Harvey, W. H., M.D., &e. The Sea-side Book, being an Introduction 
to the Natural History of the British Coasts. 12mo. London, 1849. 
Van Voorst. 
Of all the **Sea-side Books" we have ever seen, and we have seen 
many, this is the most agreeable and the most instructive, leading the 
mind, as it does, from * Nature up to Nature's God ;" and yet the 
subjects it treats of are as truly scientifie as they are popular. The book 
is illustrated with numerous wood-euts, extremely well and faithfully 
executed. It lays open, in the clearest and most engaging language, 
the wonders of the great deep, and its boundaries, —* the sheltered 
bay—the open strand—the bold rocky barrier against which breakers 
constantly roll—each with its peculiar animal and vegetable inhabitant.” 
admirable introduction explains the design of the work, and six 
other chapters are devoted to “the sands and their productions; the 
rocky sea-shore and sea-weeds (here, as may be supposed, the author 
is peculiarly at home) ; the rocky sea-shore and marine animals ; dredg- 
ing ; the microscopical wonders of the sea ; sea-side plants, birds, drift- 
wood,” &c. 
