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Urn,) and one, or possibly two species of Chthamalia, DeCaisne. 



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Carolina. Enslenia albida, we notice, is about to be figured in the forth- 

 coming volume of Delessert's Icones ; as also is Podostigma. Acerates 

 includes ten, chiefly North American species. Asclepias is reduced 

 to forty four species, all of which are American, and the greater part 

 extra-tropical. We are happy to learn that the plates of the fifth vol- 

 ume of the Icones Selects of the liberal Delessert— chiefly devoted to 

 the illustration of the eighth volume of the Prodromus— are already m 

 the hands of the engraver. 



2. Repertorium Botanices Systematica ; auctore Guil. Ger. Wal- 

 ters. Leipsic, 1842—4. 2 vols. 8vo.— This work constitutes a sup- 

 plement to De Candolle's Prodromus, and purports to contain the spe- 

 cies which have been published since the appearance of the successive 

 volumes of the latter. The first volume, (fasc. I-V,) comprising 950 

 pages, brings up the arrears as far as the end of the Leguminosa- >Ve 

 understand that the second volume, which finishes the work, is also 

 completed ; but of this we have as yet received only three fasciculi 

 which carries the enumeration to the end of the genus Aster. " hen 

 the remaining fasciculi reach us, we may, perhaps, offer some annota- 

 tions respecting the synonymy of some American plants, for which w 

 have not room at present. A. <J R ' 



3. Enumeratio Plantarum omnium hucusque cognitanim^ secundum 

 Familias Naturales disposita ; auctore C. S. Kunth, Prof. Univ. Berol, 

 &c. &c. Tom. IV. Stuttgardt and Tubingen, 1843. pp. 752, 8vo.- 

 This work is making such progress in the ascending series, that tne 

 publication of the Endogenous plants will probably be finished abou 

 the time that the Prodromus of De Candolle reaches the lowest Exo- 

 genous orders. We shall then have a complete Species Plantarum o 

 Flowering Plants ; a consummation which we hope may be effecte i 

 the course of eight or ten years — possibly by the year 1850. to 

 volume, Professor Kunth has given the Xyridece, Mayacea, (M«y* 

 aca or Syena,) Commelynece, Pontederiacece, Melanthacea, Vvulani^ 

 LiliacecB, (=Tulipace£E, De C.) to which he refers Medeola; ^ 

 finally the Asphodelea, which fill more than half of the volume. « 

 shall take another opportunity for some critical observations upon 

 Melanthacea. We will here only repeat our former remark, that t 

 name of Melanthium must be restored to the American species, up 

 which the genus was established. From Uvularia puberula, »» 

 the synonym of Richardson must be excluded. The plant, wb# 



