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Botanist has not issued from the press since the days of 
Bernard de Jussieu; yet from the pen of the same talented 
author there has followed, close upon thelast mentioned work, 
another which scarcely yields to it in interest : namely, the 
* Enchiridion Botanicum exhibens Classes et Ordines 
Plantarum accedit Nomenclator Generum et Officinalium 
indicatio." 
Here, as the title indicates, are besides, the full characters 
ofthe Regions, and Sections, (as the Author calls them) and 
Classes and Orders ; an enumeration of the Genera and pretty 
copious notes on the properties and products of Plants. It 
is a book that should be in the hands of every Botanical 
Student, and is amply deserving of his attentive study. 
* ENDLICHER’S Iconographia Generum Plantarum," we 
regret to say, has closed, probably for want of a more liberal 
support on the part of the publie, with the 125th plate and ac- 
companying description. More beautiful or more accurate 
details of the fructification have seldom been given to the 
world by any author. Many of them, indeed, are from the 
pencil of the celebrated Ferdinand Bauer, whose talents as a 
Botanical draughtsman were only equalled, (scarcely excelled) 
by his late brother Francis. 
A Manuel of the British Alga, containing Genera and 
specific descriptions of all the known British species of Sea- 
weeds and Conferve, both marine and fresh-water, by the 
Hox. Wm. Henry Harvey. 
In this excellent work, the most complete, perhaps, of its 
kind that this or any other country can boast, the British 
Alge are divided into 26 families, 127 Genera, and nothing 
can exceed the accuracy with which the specific characters 
and remarks are drawn up. Useful as the descriptions are 
to the man of science, the general reader may derive, as well 
as the Botanist, both amusement and instruction from the 
Introduction, written, we believe, wholly on board ship, 
