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The characters derived from the venation of Ferns, which Mr. Brown. 
has applied to the distinction of genera with the consummate skill and 
caution for which he is so greatly distinguished, and which have also 
been largely employed by other authors, especially by Bory, Gaudi- 
chaud, Brongniart, and Schott, are in this treatise carried to an ex- 
travagant extent. Nevertheless, the work will be useful, to our bot- 
anists especially, who seldom have access to extensive libraries, or 
to the scattered observations on this subject in various papers and 
memoirs. The crowded plates comprise illustrations of nearly all the 
known genera; and the work may be purchased for about a dollar 
and a half. We may observe that the Ragiopteris onocleoides of 
Presl, is founded on a fertile frond of Onoclea sensibilis; to which a 
portion of the sterile frond of a very different plant had been applied 
in the herbarium of Willdenow. The introduction comprises a pretty 
full account of the organization of Ferns. : 
%. Dr. Siebold, Flora Japonica: sectio prima, Plante ornatui 
vel usui inservientes; digessit Dr. J. G. Zuccarnt: fase. I—10, 
fol. (Leyden, 1835—1839, pp. 100, tab. 1—50.)—This work is, we 
believe, wholly arranged and prepared by Prof. Zuccarini of Munich, 
from notes and specimens furnished by Dr. Siebold of Leyden, accu- 
mulated during his long official residence in Japan. The admirable 
plates are executed at Munich : they are engraved upon stone after a 
peculiar method, which is now frequently employed, and are certainly 
not excelled in beauty or accuracy by any copper-plate engravings in 
the same style. The portion already published comprises only some 
of the ornamental or otherwise generally interesting plants; the gen- 
eral account of the Japanese Flora being reserved for a future part of 
the work, The Flora of Japan presents such striking analogies to 
that of the temperate part of North America as to render this work 
of more than ordinary interest to American botanists. To show this, 
we select from the forty-six species described and figured by Zucca- 
rini, the following list, placing opposite the Japanese plant the related 
North American forms. - 
? z ‘Flora of North Ameri: 
Illicium religiosum, Iliciam Floridanum and parviflorum. 
adsura Japonica, Schizandra coccinea 
Benthamia Japonica, Cornus florida. S 
ylopsis, two species, Hamamelis and Fothergilla. — 
Aralia edulis, Aralia racemosa. 
Symplocos lucida, Hopea tinctoria. 
Styrax Japonicum, &c. Styrax, several species, 
Deutzia, three i Philadelphus. 
species, = . 
Schizophragma hydrangeoides, ; = § Decumaria and 
Platycrater arguta, angea. 
