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Flora of Carolina.—Dr. Curtis has lately issued an important 
and neatly printed catalogue relating to this subject. Its greatest 
interest is in the Cryptogamic part, which occupies considerably 
more than half of the volume. ‘The Flowering plants enumerated 
are 1873, the Flowerless 2924, of which 2392 are Fungi ; that is, 
of the order to which Mr. Curtis has devoted the greater part of 
his scientific life. Acknowledgments are made to Mr. Sullivant for 
assistance in arranging the list of Musci and Hepatice, and to Pro- 
fessor Tuckerman in that of the Lichenes. This assistance, it 
would appear, was rendered several years ago, as the arrangement 
does not in all respects represent Professor Tuckerman’s later views. 
The catalogue is undoubtedly by far the most extensive list of 
plants ever published in North America; and from the central 
position of North Carolina in the line of the Atlantic States, and 
from its including the most developed portion of the Alleghanies, it 
is very important to botanists in the illustration of geographical 
distribution and range of species. As regards the Fungi, that State 
may be supposed to contain all the species of the Atlantic States. 
It is much to be wished that Dr. Curtis would now seriously devote 
himself to the elaboration of a manual of the Fungi of the United 
States; otherwise, a vast amount of knowledge of these obscure 
plants may be one of these days lost to the world, and a great want 
long remain unsupplied. 
Enewann.—Professorship of Botany at Oxford.—The profes- 
sorship which became vacant by the death of Dr. Daubeny has at 
length been filled up by the election of Mr. M. A. Lawson, to whom 
we are indebted for the following account of the Flora of the Isle 
of Skye :—“ During the last month I spent a fortnight in this 
island in investigating its Flora. I had for companions Professor 
Oliver and Mr. Fox of Great Bardfield, and with their assistance I 
have drawn up a list of all the plants we found in our various 
excursions. This list contains 389 species, including the Ferns, 
Equisetaceze, and Lycopodiacese. Of this number 51 species are new 
to sub-province 33 in Mr. Watson’s Supplement to his ‘Cybele 
Britannica, 31 are new to his sub-province 32, 120 are new to 
his sub-province 38, while 51 species are recorded from his sub- 
province 38, which we did not find in Skye. I propose here to 
mention only those plants,which are in common use by the inha- 
bitants. 
First, those which are used for medicinal purposes :— 
Achillea millefoliwm is a supposed specific for jaundice. 
Gentiana campestris and Menyanthus trifoliata are exten- 
sively collected, and taken as tonics. 
Mercurialis perennis, it is said, is largely used for a purgative. 
Many species of seaweed also are used variously; sometimes 
simply boiled into a pulp it forms a poultice, at other times it is 
