316 NEW PUBLICATIONS, 
an out-of-the-way place, he has done more for systematic botany than 
many great establishments, with all the facilities and resources of 
Europe at their back. 
' i We have just received the 23rd fascicle of the * Fragmenta," con- 
cluding vol. iii. of that valuable work. Amongst a host of new spe- 
cies, we have the following new genera : —Osbornia and Phymatocar- 
pus (Myrtacee), Emmenosperma (Rhamneacea), Brachynema (Sacifra- 
gacee), Earlia (Acanthacee), and Lachnothalamus, Lamprochlena, Ela- 
chopappus, and Cephalosorus (Composite). The plates accompanying 
this work would be improved if the dissections were less shaded. — . 
Synopsis Plantarum Diaphoricarum. Systematische Uebersicht der 
Heil-, Nutz- und Giftpflanzen aller Lander. Von Dr. David August 
Rosenthal. Erlangen: Enke, 1861-62, London: Williams and 
Norgate. 8vo, pp. 1361. ; 
We have great pleasure in announcing that this work of reference, 
arranged according to Endlicher’s * Genera Plantarum,’ has just been 
concluded with a supplement. It contains am enumeration of no less 
than 12,000 plants useful to man, and though a vast number of 
omissions are apparent, Dr. Rosenthal’s ‘Synopsis’ must be pro- 
nounced the most successful attempt hitherto made to throw into the 
form of a manual all that is known of economic botany. We sh 
like to have seen it more complete; indeed, a person living in any great 
centre of scientific life could double the number of useful plants here 
given; but we know the difficulties and the immense expenditure of 
time and labour required for that purpose, and gladly accept this work 
until we get something better in its stead. It will soon find a 
in every library, and be as indispensable in its way as the works of 
Steudel, Pritzel, Endlicher, De Candolle, Walpers, C. Mueller, E. Meyer, 
and Bentham and Hooker are in their respective departments. — 
During the progress of the work the author has been 
handled by the critics (we ourselves amongst the number), on account 
of the numerous omissions detected in the first part of his publication. 
It is gratifying to observe that he has benefited by these criticisms; 
and given in a supplement all the omissions complained of, with sr 
deal of additional matter. But it is evident that with every desire (^ 
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