374 Bibliography. 
6. Kunze, Supplemente der Riedgriser (Carices) zu Schkuhr’s Mon- 
ographie, §c—The first fasciculus (the only portion that has yet 
appeared) of Prof. Kunze’s supplement, or continuation of Schkuhr’s 
well known work on Carex, comprises detailed descriptions and beau- 
tiful figures of fifteen species of that large and difficult genus. The 
specific characters are given in Latin; the remainder of the text in 
German. The figures are executed in the same style as those of 
Schkuhr, but are not somuch crowded. Four of our North American 
species are here illustrated, viz. C. leiorhynca, Meyer; C. Steudelii, 
Kunth; C. gracillima, Schwein. ; and C. Frankii, Kunth. The last 
is'identical with the vie: Cc. se ripcaleey Torr. 
at Hooker and hiniotte Botany of Capt. Beechey’s Voyage ; part 
1841. (tab. 90-99.)—The tenth and last fasciculus of this work 
pre in the account of a collection on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 
and is terminated by a complete index. The ten plates it comprises 
are nearly all devoted to Californian plants deseribed in prior fasciculi ; 
which Pterostegia, a curious Polygonaceous genus, Anemopsis 
Californie of Nuttall, and ee of Nees, a singular aes are 
_ most remarka le. 
8. Elémens de Tératologie Vé ‘peri, ou. Histoire aes des 
anomalies de V Organisation dans les Végétaux; par Aes : 
Tanpon. Paris, 1841, 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 403. (Monstra in: 
horremus, amamus in pomis. Ferrar., ‘Hesperia. lib. iv. cap. xi) 
treatise on v getable ities is very properly pre- 
faced by a statement of what is meant by the normal structure 
oo by vegetable individuality, and vegetable symmetry. The au- 
thor proceeds to consider, ‘first, those slighter deviations which are 
called varieties ; and secondly, those more grave and mostly congen- 
ital anomalies which bear the name of monsters. As to the latter the 
author remarks, that nearly every monstrous or abnormal condition that’ 
has been observed is to be met with as the normal state of other veg- 
etables ; and that between a monstrous anda normal flower, the only 
difference often is, that the former is the occasional, the latter the habit- 
. “La monstruosité est donc, en général, Vapplication inso- 
Tite, dun individu ou d un appareil, de la structure normale @un autre. 
pa: eil ou Wun autre individu. Cest un organisation transposée, 
est une loi changée de place. OnTa dit avec raison, la monstruosité 
ne 86 trowee pas en dehors de la nature, mais seulement en dehors de la 
Te lt is } clear, therefore, that while abnormal states may 
alway ies xplained by the laws which regulate the normal structure, 
) toe ‘ : themsel es as the etymology of the name: indicates, often 
