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PART II. 



REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 



Ladies' Botany ; or a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the 

 Natural System of Botany. By John Lindley, Ph. D., 

 F.R.S. &c. &c. &c, Professor of Botany in the University of 

 London. 8vo. 302 pages, 25 plates. London, 1834. 16s. 

 plain, £1 Is. coloured. 



We reel sorry that we have Hot mom this month to make those observa- 

 tions upon the work before us, that we otherwise should have done. But 

 «.• have much pleasure in stating, that in illustration of the Natural 

 System of Befany, the work is unequalled, and each particular is treated in 

 the most ^tisluctorv manner; in fact, like all the other works we have read 

 IV.,11 ilie pen of Dr. Lindlev, it is done in the most masterly manner. 

 KWrv person desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the Natural System of 

 Botany ought to possess Dr. Lindley's Work. 



Plants figured in the following Periodicals for August :— 

 Ciutiss Botanical Mayazine. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's 

 PrpfepsOT of Botany in the University of Glasgow. Price 

 3s. (Jd. coloured ; 3s. plain. 



I. SdMmu molle, Peruvian Mastic Tree. Class, Dia>eia; order, Decan 

 dm.. Natural order I erebmthaceaj. This plant the Molli or Molle of t e 



IVnn.an,, grows wild not ill l'eru only, but also in Mexico, ace din, to 

 ---nbo.s, where U inhabit, dry and sandy places , it is ikewi and 

 InChfii, u.des ,,!,, specimen, J have received from that countrVaS cuS 



rated plan,. I, UO. possessed ofmudh beauty in the .lowers, (whkl how 

 ever, are run -ly produced in our collections,) the Molle yields to few ' 



Well deserving our attention. Flower, Of a pale yellow L'reen s ) 



I *- ,;, ;" k ***** ""■ ■-« — of 1 ..,- m ; ";;: S^JSsa 



known by the same name in Peru, ' 



& Cohoneinapukheum, Beautiful Coleooema. Pentandria, MonoRvnia 

 Rutocec. i be present graceful and beautiful plant is no doubt a n,,i1v I- 



"'- ' "I'- "< G 1 Mope, and has long been cultivated in , ' "' 



f Boumic Garden ..r Slaagow, under the S^^SSSS '" 



name, however, only of the gardens, and implyina •■ clnm. r ' ' * 



"" f **%«***• It i » In April and M^^^.^T''' '" 



-"> collection, from lu graceful mode of growth and i,' h „V ' '" 

 " ^coloured bl , which continue Tn/h? perfjotio^ 77' 



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iX,i:' ""•'" P«KlnwUoTS77 tori leSSkp^ 



« JcacM Aa*/«fefe, Little Halbc-leavcd Ac«;i«. SWygsmia, M W i,« C i«. 



