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in Ireland in which it is found. What these may be we have 

 no means of judging. 



We omitted to notice in the proper place that Cuscuta 

 europcea is found in two states, the one being intermediate 

 between that and Epithymum. The scales of the corolla, 

 which the author and Dr. Hooker deny to exist in eiiroptea, 

 in contradiction to the high authority of Mr. Brown, have been 

 noticed by the writer of these remarks, not in the fauces, as 

 in C. Epithymum, but lower down the corolla, and of a differ- 

 ent shape, and thus furnishing a decisive specific character. 



We ought also to have added, that, since the English Flora has 

 been in the press, Gentiana germanica has been discovered to 

 be a native, growing between Henham and Chickney in Essex, 

 as far as an authentication by specimens gathered in Hanover, 

 received by Mr. E. Forster from Mr. H. Mertens, can 

 establish the fact. 



The Indexes to the work are more copious than usual, and 

 comprehend references to the Natural Orders, and the Syn- 

 onyms of other writers. 



We regret that our limits will not allow us to go more at. 

 large into the excellences of this work. To those who are 

 engaged in the study which it embraces, it will afford abund- 

 ant delight ; and we feel assured that the English language 

 can boast of a Flora, as far as it has proceeded, not inferior 

 to any in its general scope, and in some particulars superior 

 to all which have preceded it. As a work peculiarly English, 

 we wish that the provincial names had been more liberally 

 introduced. They serve to illustrate the history of the sub- 

 ject, and oftentimes point at relations which the more philo- 

 sophic inquirer might overlook. The first step of knowledge 

 is a rude combination of particulars, which is often to be 

 discovered in vulgar names ; the next is a minute analysis 

 and searching into the individuals, and upon this step the 

 science of Natural History is halting in this country at the 

 present moment ; the third and most important is the gene- 

 ralization of particular truths, and this is the end to which all 

 our efforts should ultimately be directed, and from which re- 

 sults the most important to science may confidently be 

 anticipated. 



A Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of 

 Physicians of London. 1 824. With Notes and Illustrations. 

 By Richard Phillips, F.R.S. L. $ E. fyc. 8vo. pp. 326. 



The appearance of a new Pharmacopoeia from the Royal 

 College of Physicians after so short a lapse of time as four- 

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