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pus Storckii, Gi'^Jt^h and Milnei, Brucea quercifoUa, Favtjea Rarveyi 
aud Fitiensis, Melia elegans, Aglaia muUijuga, Chailldia Vitienak^ and 
Stemoniirus Fitiensis. The geographical distribution of all the species 
in Polynesia is invariably noted, for which all the older materials, which 
have found their way to this country since Captain Cook's time, have 
been used. A good many new or obscure Polynesian species, not in- 
digenous to Viti, are described in footnotes, where also manuscript de- 
scriptions, by Solander and others, are given, viz. Xylosma Hawaiense, 
Portulaca lutea^ SoL, Garcinia pedicellata {Cliisia, Forst.), Sida biloba^ 
Abutilon Menziesii, Gossypium drynarioides and G. feliffiosum, Stercu- 
lia Forsteri {S, Balanglias Forsteri nee aHor.)^ Micromelum tnifiiitum, 
Picrasma Denhamiy etc. 
The preface and introduction to this work will be issued with the 
last part. The system followed is, with some modifications, that of 
Bentham and Hooker's ' Genera Plantai'um/ and other leading works 
by the same authors. The plates have all been executed in Mr. Pitch's 
best style ; and the whole work has been got up by Messrs- Reeve and 
Co. in a very superior manner. 
S/iakspere's Garden. Br Sidney Beisly. Sm. 8vo. London, 1864 : 
Longman and Co. Pp. 172. 
^ It is by narrowing the field of inquiry that we have the best chance 
of attaining accurate residts in literary as in physical studies ; aud the 
author of this little book has judiciously confined himself strictly to an 
identification of the plants mentioned in Shakspeare's plays. Unfortu- 
nately, he was not well qualified for the task, being, as is evident in 
every page, entirely ignorant of botauy. Thus, he tells us that the 
Apricot is Pruntis armeria [sic], the Sweet Potato {Batatas edulis, 
Chois.), a Skirret, Sisarum ; and in two different placts, that the Gar- 
officinalis 
Never- 
theless he has brought together the result of very extensive reading in 
books little known to the public generally, and with all its faults, there 
is much in his work that is interesting. If, therefore, we point out a 
few of its inaccuracies, it is not in a carping or fault-finding spirit that 
we do so. 
'Page 42. '' Cuckoo-buds of yellow hue." These he takes to be those 
of the lesser Celandine, Ranunculus Ficarla, L., because '* its flower ap- 
