48 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
less myriads in a fossil state, in many countries, covering 
miles of ground, or forming mountains, and presenting to the | 
naked eye a whitish, powdery substance, known by the name - 
of * mountain meal.’’* 
* SrEU DEL.—XNomenclator Botanicus seu Synonymia Plan- | 
tarum Universalis, enumerans Ordine alphabetico nomna 
atque synonyma tum generica tum specifica, et a Linneo et a | 
recentioribus de re Botanica scriptoribus Plantis phanero- | 
gamis imposita. Ed. 2, ex nova elaborata et aucta." | 
The title fully explains the nature of this useful under- | 
taking, which was recently brought to a conclusion in one 
volume, imperial 8yo. This is, however, divided into two | 
parts, each of about 850 pages. Steudel rendered essential | 
service to the Botanical student, by the first edition of this : 
work, extending to 3,376 Genera, and 39,684 Species. B. | 
present edition enumerates 6,722 Genera and 78,005 Species E. 
So that the known Flora of the world has been nearly doubled : 
in the short space of twenty years. It is a great improvement : 
in the present edition that the names of the countries are given 
which each species inhabits; we could have wished that good | 
figures had also been referred to. | 
We are very happy to have it in our power to announce 
that Mr. William Griffith, of the Madras civil service, SC 
preparing to publish a work, entitled, * Contributions D ] 
the Flora of India;" and the object of this publication H 
stated to be the elucidation of several collections, mace 
during the last five years, in various parts of the north-eastern 
frontier of India, and which are about to be distributed m 
England by Professor Royle, under the orders of the Ho 
nourable Court of Directors. To these will be added other. 
private collections of the author, and the whole will comprise 
on a rough estimate : | 
2,500 species from the Kasiya Hills. 
* See Ehrenberg's discoveries. 
