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the account of the Californian collections, which, following the order 

 of De Candolle's Prodromus, extends to Paronychiace?e, does not em- 

 brace a single addition to the species already described in Torrey & 

 Gray's Flora of North America, which comprises Upper California 

 alone ; while the collections south of that limit were mostly new as to 

 species, which almost exclusively belong to tropical or Mexican forms. 

 There Cactaceae and Euphorbiaceae prevail, Malpighiaceae and Bursera- 

 cese make their appearance ; and the Mangrove with its companion the 

 Laguncularia make their appearance on the shores ; their northern limit, 

 being the Bay of Magdalena, in lat. 24° 38'. The plant doubtfully re- 

 ferred by Hooker and Arnott to Vitis Caribaa, is here characterized 



as a distinct species under the name of V. Californica. 



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6. Sertum Plantarum, or Drawings and Descriptions of Rare or 

 Undescribed Plants, from the author's Herbarium ; by H. B. Field- 

 ing, F. L. S. and R. G. S., assisted by George Gardiner, F. L. S. 

 London, Bailliere, Part I, 8vo.— This work is on the same plan as 

 Hooker's excellent Icones Plantarum ; the figures being executed in 

 neat lithography, and each with a single page of descriptive letter-press. 

 Four parts are announced, each to comprise, like the one before us, 

 twenty five plates ; but as Mr. Fielding's truly rich herbarium, (found- 

 ed on that of the late Mr. Prescott, of St. Petersburgh and enhanced 

 by the choicest portions of the late Mr. Lambert's collections, and from 

 many other sources,) will long furnish a series of most appropriate an 

 important subjects for illustration, we trust his zeal will lead him to 

 continue the work. Among the more remarkable plants here figured, 

 we notice Acacia smilacifolia, with phyllodia simulating the leaves o 

 a Smilax ; and the Brazilian Passiflora speciosa, with bright scarle 

 flowers five or six inches across. The only North American species 

 is Silene Nuttallii, Torr. & Gr.. from Drummond's Texan collection. 



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7. Cours Elcmentaire de Botanique, par M. Adr. de Jussieu. *■ arl ' 

 Part II. pp. 227-728, 18mo.— The rapid multiplication of elementary 

 works upon botany of an increasingly excellent character, affords 

 just indication not only of the actual progress of the science in t e 

 hands of a few devotees, but of the zeal and thoroughness with whic * 

 is now generally pursued, and of the rank which it is beginning to hold in 

 a liberal education. We should like to commence the study of botany 

 anew, with this volume of Jussieu for a text-book. In a small com- 

 pass, and in a treatise of a really elementary character, he has g lV 

 the most complete and lucid exposition of the science that we n aV 



