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portant voyage, has already appeared. M. Hombron, one 
of the medical men ofthe Astrolabe, undertakes the phane- 
rogamous plants. M. Decaisne continues his publication of 
. the remarkable species of Jacquemont's journey, and is 
. engaged in a very important treatise on certain lower orders 
- of plants hitherto usurped by zoologists, and incorrectly 
ranked among animals. Dr. Leveilé is preparing an inte- 
resting work on Fungi. M. Boissier’s magnificent book on 
Spanish plants, published at Paris, is finished, and he is now 
editing, in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, a review of 
the northern Asiatic Ranunculacee and Crucifere, in order 
to publish the new species contained in the Herbarium of 
Aucher, preparatory to a voyage which he himself proposes 
to make to Smyrna. Three young botanists, MM. Ernest 
Germain, Ernest Cosson, and Algernon Weddell, are pre- 
paring a Flora Parisiensis, with graphic details of generic 
and specific distinctions, from the pencil of the former, but 
. without portraits of the species. This work, however, will 
. not probably appear this year. 
- . * Professor Parlatore, of Palermo, remains at Paris, by 
. permission of his government, to take advantage of the 
- libraries and collections, and of the superior instruction 
. afforded by the professors of the Sorbonne and the Museum 
. of Natural History. He has, in the press, a reprint of 
divers Memoirs, scattered through different Italian journals, 
_ With several additions, and likewise a monograph of the genus 
 Pumaria, for which he has long been collecting materials. 
- The whole is in Latin, excepting a very interesting preface, 
| eating of the geographical distribution of this little group, 
` Which is in Italian. Col. Bory de St. Vincent, on his 
. arrival at Paris in April, will no doubt prosecute the publi- 
- Cation of his Jfrican Flora with his accustomed spirit and 
- activity. Baron B. Delessert, notwithstanding the magni- 
- fient work on Conchology which he is publishing, is about 
. to edit another volume of Icones Selecte Plantarum." 
