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Ay man's Conspectus Flone Europcr.—Tht fourth and 

 concluding part of this very useful publication, con- /y^ 



taining the Monocotyledons, has just been issued. / "^ 

 The work contains a classified list of all the species -^ 



of plants known to grow wild in Europe, together 

 with synonyms, references to collections, and coun- 

 tries. The total number of species enumerated in the 

 entire work (excluding sub-species) is 9395. Of 

 these 7770 are Dicotyledons— over 82 per cent.— and 

 1625 Monocots, or over 17 per cent. Of the 139 



14 per cent, of the whole ; Leguminosc^ follow, with 

 »39 species, nearly 9 per cent. ; Grasses come next, 

 with 570 species, about 6 per cent. ; Cruciferte, 543! 

 or about 5 per cent. ; Umbelliferte, 500, or about 

 5 per cent.; Caryophyllese (Silenacece, 321, and Alsi- 

 "20^^'r ^bf ^ " 5 IS. or about 5 per cent. ; and Labiatae, 



as serving as a treasury of statistics and of materials 

 tor the mvestigation of botanical geography, but also 

 to growers of hardy plants desirous of possessing accu- 

 rate information as to the names, synonyms, and 

 localities of European plants. The book may be had 

 trom Messrs. Williams 8.- Nnranf*. 



