376 Bibliography. 
the Composite. It is comprised in 228 pages octavo, (Berlin, 1840,) 
and is entitled the second part of the work: the first, an index of Vols. 
I-IV, of the Prodromus, sea announced as in press a year or two 
since, has not yet reached u 
As to the Prodromus, Tala the gifted author was not spared to ” 
finish his herculean task, it will doubtless be continued, and, we trust, 
duly completed, by his justly distinguished son and successor, Prof. Al- 
phonse De Candolle, with the aid of those botanists to whom a conside- 
assigned. It may perhaps be important to the botanists of this country 
to know, that the elaboration of the Scrophularinee, Labiaia, Hydro- 
phyllacee, and, we believe, the Polemoniacee, has been long since un- 
dertaken by Mr. Bentham; the Convolvulacee, by Prof. Choissy, of 
Geneva; the Primulacee and Lentibulacee, by Mr. Duby; and the 
Plumbaginacea, by Mr. Boissier, of Geneva ; the Solanaceae, by Prof, 
Dunal, of Montpelier; and the ie aaadican, by Mr. Decaisne, of the 
Royal Museum, Paris; to all of whom good specimens of the rarer or 
less known and. local species of these respective orders from different 
parts of this country would doubless be welcome and yery useful. 
3. Kunth, Enumeratio Plantarum, Vol. Il. Stuttgardt, 1841. pp- 
644, 8vo.—We learn that the third volume of this work has recently 
appeared ; and that it comprises the orders Araceae, (including Lemna 
and Pistia,) Typhacee, Pandanacee, Naidacee, Juncaginee, Alisma- 
cee, Palmacea, Juncacee, Phylidracee, Restiacea, Desvauxiacee, and 
Eriocaulonee. 
4. Loudon’s Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum abridged : or the 
hardy trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientiealy 
and popularly described ; with their propagation, culture, an 
the arts, and with figures of nearly all the species: Abridged from the 
large edition in eight volumes, and adapted for the use of Nurserymen, 
Gardeners, and Foresters.—This useful and well digested abridgment 
of a very important, but somewhat unwieldly and expensive work, is to 
be comprised. in ten monthly parts, published at five shillings each, and 
will contain ma many species or varieties introduced into Great Britain sinee 
the year 1838, ‘when the large work was completed. Only the first 
part (published i in December last) has as yet reached us: this extends 
to p. 128, and includes the orders from Ranunculaceae to Zisculacee, 
following the arrai t of De Candolle’s Prodromus. The original 
work is a and justly valued in this county as well as in England ; 
and th 
i marae edition will : 
when secure: Biel a very ‘cadineive: x circulation. — 
