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number was to appear in February last. It is under the editorship of 
MM. de la Rive, Marignac, and Pictet. Price 30 fr. per year; or 55 
fr. in connection with the other branch of the Bibliothéque Universelle. 
5. “ Phycologia Britannica: or History of the British Sea- Weeds, 
containing colored figures, generic and specific characters, synonymes 
and descriptions of all the species of Alge inhabiting the shores of the 
British Islands, by William Henry Harvey, M. D., M. R. I. A., Keeper 
of the Herbarium of the University of Dublin. Roy. 8vo.; to be com- 
pleted in sixty monthly parts, each containing six colored plates, with 
descriptive text; price 2s. 6d. ; large paper, 5s.” 
We have not seen this work, but the name of Mr. Harvey, the ac- 
complished author of the Manual of British Alga, affords the highest 
guaranty of its accuracy and value. A. Gr. 
6. Hooker’s Species Filicum, etc.—The third part of this work, which 
has just reached us, is principally occupied with the genus Davalia, 
(pp. 129-142, plates 40 to 60 inclusive.) The Botany of the Niger 
Expedition, by Sir Wm. and Dr. J. D. Hooker is announced, to which 
a biography of Mr. Vogel, the naturalist, who perished in that ill-starred 
enterprise, is to be appended. A. Gr 
~% Hassatn, History of the British Fresh-Water Algae, including 
descriptions of the Desmidea and Diatomacee, 1 vol. 8vo. of text, with 
an accompanying volume of plates (100 in number,) colored after na- 
ture. This work will prove a very needful help to the’ student of these 
minute and hitherto most obscure tribes, although in some particulars, 
—not however affecting the general value of the work,—Mr. Hassa 
has been quite severely criticised in some of the English Journals. 
8. Martivs, Palmarum Genera et Species.—We are informed that 
the Sth part of this magnificent work is on the eve of publication. In- 
deed it has probably appeared at Munich before this, and the remainder 
of the work is promised in August or September, so that this great un 
dertaking will probably be brought to a conclusion in the course of the 
present year. A, Gr. 
9. Lepevour, Flora Rossica.—The 6th part of this work (part 2nd 
of vol. 2) was published during the past year. It is occupied with the 
Composite, of which it includes nearly all the Tubuliflore. Illustra- 
tions of the Russian Flora by Dr. TRAUTVETTER, (Plantarum imagines 
et descriptiones floram Rossicam illustrantes,) are in the course of 
publication, but no part of the work has yet reached us. A. Gr. 
10. Borsster, Voyage Botanique dans le Midi de ? Espagne ; Paris, 
1839-1845, 2 vols. roy. 4to.—The first volume of this beautiful work 
is occupied with the narrative of M. Boissier’s tour,—which is full of 
interest,—with a treatise on the Geographical Botany of Granada, and 
with the plates of the systematic part of the work, over 200 in number, 
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