198 Miscellanies: 
twelve vowel sounds, and twenty five consonant sounds. He proposes to 
express the short sounds of the vowels by inverting the usual characters 
for the same, and to express the sounds for which we have no simple char- 
acters in our language, by taking the characters which are redundant. 
On these various plans we remark, that in the present advanced state 
of the English language and literature, it is extremely undesirable to in- 
crease the existing confusion, by giving a new sound to any of the char- 
acters now in use, or to invent x characters, unless their expediency 
shall be almost self-evident, 
26. Flora of North America; by Drs. Torrey and Gray. Parts III 
and IV. June, 1840. New York, Wiley & Putnam.—These two parts 
complete the first volume of the work, which extends to about 720 pages, 
and concludes the history of the polypetalous division of the dicotyledo- 
nous or exogenous plants. The third part comprises the remainder of 
the Leguminose, and the orders Rosacea, Calycanthacea, Melastoma- 
cea, Lythracea, Rhizophoracec, Combretacea, Onagracee, Loasacea, 
1 acee, Passifloracea, Cucurbitacee, and Grossulacee. The fourth 
includes the Cactacee, Surianacee, Crassulacez, Saxifragacee, Hama- 
melacee, Umbellifere, Araliacea, Cornacee, Loranthace@, and a copious 
supplement. Several genera are introduced for the first time into the 
North American flora, and the following new ones are established : 
Pickeringia, ( Nutt.) founded on.a Californian plant. 
uttallia, founded on a plant from Oregon. 
Peraphyllum, (Nufé.) from the Rocky Mountains. 
~ Hypobrichia, (Af, O. Curtis,) a plant of the United States. 
Bulobus, (Wutt.) fiom California. 
Echinocystis, a plant of the United States. 
Discanthera, a Texian plant. 
Solmiea, an Oregon plant, 
Jamesia, from the Rocky Mountains, where it was discovered by Dr. 
Edwin James. z 
Edosmia, (Nutt.) from California and Oregon. 
Neurophyllum, from the United States. 
Euryptera, (Nuét.) from California. 
Leptotenia, (NVuét.) from Oregon and California. 
Eurytenia, a plant from Texas. 
Glycosma, (Vutt.) a plant from Oregon. 
» Cynapium, (Nutt,) on some plants of Oregon. 
_ Musenium, ( Nut.) on some plants of the Upper Missouri, Oregon, &c. 
Apiastrum, ( Nutt.) on some Oregon and Californian plants. 
| Deweya, (which is dedicated to Prof Dewey, now of Rochester, New 
