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iad Art. XXII.— Bibliographical Notices. 
‘1. Enchiridion Botanicum exhibens Classes et Ordines Plantarum, 
accedit Nomenclator Generum et officinalium vel usualium indicatio ; 
auctore Stern. Enpiicner, M.D. Botanices in facult. med. Vindob. 
. Leipsic and Vienna, 1841. pp. 768, 8vo.—This distinguished 
botanist, having taken the chair in the University of Vienna, so long 
filled by the late Baron Jacquin, has prepared an excellent text-book, 
on the same plan as Lindley’s Introduction to the Natural System. 
The author’s own arrangement in his Genera Plantarum, is of course 
followed, and the detailed characters of the classes and orders are 
. taken from that work. A list of the genera, with their subdivisions 
and principal synony ms, is given under each order; the affinities of 
the latter are briefly discussed; its geographical distribution noticed ; 
its general properties and uses indicated, followed by a condensed but 
carefully digested account of all its useful products, and espe 
those employed in medicine. We know not where so much imiportatite 
information is to be found within such a narrow compass. We observe 
that Prof. Endlicher, following out his views upon the subject of vege- 
table impregnation, viz. that the pollen-grains are the veritable orula, 
has in this work substituted the term gemmule in place of the letter, 
and restored the old name of germen for the ovarium ! 
2. Flora Medica; a Botanical Account of all the more important 
Plants used in Medicine, in different parts of the world; by Joann 
Linotey, Ph. D. &c. London, 1888. pp. 656, 8vo.—Our notice of 
this work is somewhat tardy ; but it is probably not yet as well known 
in this country, at least to the medical profession, as it deserves tO 
be. _ Its object is to furnish good systematical descriptions of medici- 
nal plants, including those employed in the popular practice in differ- 
ent ¢ é $, as well as those which have found a place in treatises on 
materia medica. Not being himself a medical man, the author adopts 
the motto: “Certa feram certis autoribus ; haud ego vates”—but there 
is no lack of original investigation in the discussion of numerous ques- 
tions, which must be settled rather by botanical than pharmaceutical 
inquiry. The arrangement of the author’s Introduction to the Naturgl 
e! _ second edition, is followed ; but, in order to suit the conven- — 
e readers who may pret some other mode, the work is 
fferent natural orders may be cut asynder and re- 
ence ar em Pages are left, and the 
ghout Europe, 
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