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furnish as complete a synopsis as pessible of the plante diaphorice, 
the materials at his disposal, rich as they are, do not represent the 
sum total of what economic botany has achieved. An Englishman, 
though he will find in the book many facts unknown to him and 
derived from Continental sources, will miss much with which he is 
thoroughly familiar. We should advise Dr. Rosenthal not to be dis- 
couraged by the incompleteness of his present attempt, but to go on 
collecting additional facts, and give, from time to time, supplements. 
We strongly advise him to look more closely into the great mass of 
English books of travel and periodicals than he has done. ` 
Supplement to English Botany, No. 77. London: 1863. 
. We were pleased to receive this first number of the fifth volume of 
the ‘Supplement. to English Botany’ in its familiar blue wrapper, 
Which carries us back not only thirty years to the time when Hooker . 
and Borrer edited the first volume, but to the days which our fathers 
Scarcely remember, when Smith and Sowerby issued the first number 
of their important work. They are now long in their graves, and the 
earth has closed over many of their successors, Mr. Borrer being one of 
the last. whose loss we had to regret; but others rise in their place, 
and in Babington for descriptions, and Salter for illustrations, we have 
Worthy successors of those honoured names that have preceded them in 
‘this national work. In this very number they are linked on to their 
Predecessors, for three of the species have appended to them the well- 
known initials of W. B. We defer entering on any critical examina- 
‘tion of this number, which contains descriptions of Saliw cuspidata, 
Schultz, Aium triquetrum, Ia, Teucrium Botrys, L., Ranunculus pelíatus, 
Fries, and R, Baudotii, Godr. The drawings, executed with the care 
‘nd accuracy for which Mr. Salter is known, consist of the W illow just 
Named, and five species of Ranunculus, the descriptions of which will 
be given in the next number. 
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