1 96 Miscellaneaus Facts and Observations. 



Anti-Brunonians, or by Eclectics. Even Galvan- 

 ism and Vaccination had their own critical journals, and 

 periodical collections. 



" But I proceed to speak of Books. Professor Spren- 

 gel, at Halle, has published the 3d volume of his An- 

 leitung fur Kenntniss der Gewachse, which is an intro- 

 duction to the knowledge of Cryptogamic plants. Will- 

 denow has continued his Linnc*, and has begun a 

 Hortus Berolinensis^ of which three fasciculi have ap- 

 peared, with very fine coloured prints (each three dol- 

 lars, German monc} ) : Wendland's Ericarum Jcones^ . 

 the 12th fasciculus (2 dollars). Schkuhr has begun a 

 work on the Cryptogamic plants of Germany : each fiis- 

 ciculus, in 4to, with many very exact and coloured en- 

 gravings, at 5 dollars. He is professor at Wittenbcrgh, 

 and is considered the best continuator of Hedwig's Re- 

 searches. Jacquin's Hortus Findobonensis is reprinted, 

 ver}-' neat and cheap, though not so splendid as the ori- 

 ginal of Vienna. Rebentisch has published a Prodro- 

 mus Florae Neomarchicae (of Brandenburg), with a pre- 

 face by Willdenow. Persoon, at Gottingen, has pub- 

 lished Icones pictae Fungonim rariorum, fasc. 1. (2-| 

 dollars): he describes them in a methodical order. 

 Hoffmann has gone to Moscow, and has published only 

 a small volume of his pocket-book Dcutschlands Flora. 

 Esper (the same who is author of a very good systema- 



• Species Plantaruin, Sec. I have seen thv first eighteen classes 

 {Monanclria — Poi;ad(l{!hia) of this laborious and useful work. 

 Mr. Willdtnow has also finished the vysi and difficult class of 

 Sijngrnesiae : but this I have not seen ; and am incapable of saying 

 what has been his success in this part of the work. Editok. 



