Flora Capensis.-Another part of this work (vol. iv., sect, i., 
part iii.. pp. :',;;7-I.SiO was issued iti October, I'.M,;. [, contains 
y»f« by Mr. C. H. Wi _ . |, p, { "„ ' /" ,' . i/„ <;,< / . „.," n i 
Sa,,„i,(,rae by the late Dr. W. II. Harvev. with additions by 
Mr. C. H.Wright; the FJ.r,„ t c n u> hv Mr. \Y. V. Iliern : and part 
of the Oleaceae by Dr. W. H. Harvev, with additions i.v Mr. C. II. 
Wri-lit. The yonera of the Enmmu: a]»art from the -enus AY/"/, 
constitute one of the most difficult groups in the iraniopetahius 
tlowei-ino- p] :m(s ou account of the often exceeding smallness 
and the olminons nature of the flowers of many of their species. 
Twenty-two genera, including four new ones, are described : and 
out of 1.V.I species iii', are new. The Plumhrujiwue are reprinted 
ley eleven species of Station three of J'/inn/,,),/,*. and J7,/#7/</ 
of Anagallis and Lf/.<tinf«-/iittji\ the almost cosmopolitan S<im»l>'* 
Valerand V, and hy\v. ponisus. Thunb.. an eudemie species. Tlie 
eight species, and three genera and sixteen species, respectively. 
The /'.V/r/K/ov/care relatively numerous, the tour genera numbering 
collectively H7 species. 
The late Dr. Harvey's manuscript is printed almost as lie left it, 
except as regards the geography. Strange to say, it contains 
descriptions ,,f about half-a-dozen lew suedes which nobody hid 
taken tip during the interval of K> vears since it was written. 
Manual of the New Zealand Flora.— It is now upwards of Si 1 \ eai> 
sine, M, ,!„, , 1, Hook, , . ■ Handbook of the Flora of New Zea- 
land' appeared, and botanists have long felt the want ot a iu-\\ 
edition, or a new work, embodvimr rise results of the always active 
tion of the vegetation of that country during this con- 
siderable period. In the Krw Bnlh'Hn for IS'.''.', p. -L notice was 
taken of the fragmentary Sttiib-hts Fl»m »/ ,\7,r Z 
incomplete owinir to the 'lamented death of Professor T. Kirk. It 
was then announced that in addition to the publication ot the 
fragment, arrange nnm is had been made for the preparation of a 
Ft'n-u of the eountrv on a less comprehensive plan. Now comes 
Mr. T. F.Ci ■ Manual,' containing descriptions 
of all the native flowering plants, ferns, and lycopods, &c— mother 
words, of all the vascular plants— which shows that there has been 
an increase of about one-third in the number of specie 
Period indicated. I. nfortnnari.dy this book doe-, no 
the requirements of local botanists, because New Zealand is in tie- 
peculiar position of sheltering upward- of htm specie- ot p an - <> 
foreign origin, many or which are exceedingly abundant, mie, , 
inMr.Checsen i an-;w<.nls.the> now constitute the I _ 
tion of 0, ■,.-;>. and there is no part of the 
country ho- !«*■ -t foreign origin 
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andexpres S esal,ope«hat"hemaybeabI ( 
volume dealing with thifi foreign eleven 
necessary for the botanist to know the aliens as to know 
