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The first part of Orsted's work contains introductorv matter nnd 
eighteen well-executed plates, uuaccornpaiued, as yet, by descriptions, 
and representing the following plants: — 1. EvodiantJius anguHtifoUus, 
Or. {CydanUiedB). 3. Sarclnauilim utilis, Or. {Ci/cIaniJiece). 3. Eleu^ 
tJieropetalum Snrtori and Eniesti-Augnsti, Or. {Pahnce). 4. Stachi/o^ 
phorbe pygmrsa^Ot. (Palmce). 5. C/iamcedorea geo?iom^fo?"mis^Wei\d], 
(Palmce). 6. Dasystacliyn Dechei^iana^ Or. {Palmre), 7. StepJumo- 
stacJiys Caspeinana, KL, JFencllandlana^ Or., Tepejolote^ Or., and >S^e- 
tlioscapjie Arenhergiana, Or. (Palm^). 8. Badrk (THchobactris) 
glandulosay Or., 5. (Euhactrls) fusca^ Or. {Palmm), 9. Jvgnstinea 
«« 4« ftfr ttB 
halanoidea^ Or., ^. ovata. Or., ^. majo)\ Dr., Bactris acuminala. Or., 
B. Mexicana, Lieb., and ^. /io?'?v'da^Oi-.j Gtiilielma titilis.Ow (Pahnai), 
10. Ziqiddaml/ar macropkylla. Or. 11. Z. sfyraci/iua, var, JHexicana^ 
Or. {BaUanujlud), 12. Warszetciczia piilcJierrima^ KL, 7?^. coccinea^ 
Or. {Bubiacea). 13. Pogonopiis exsertus, Or, (Rubiacecs), 14. ifa- 
poiirirB specierum fguiyje (inalytic(jp, 15. Rosenhergia gracilis^ Or. (P6>. 
lemoniacece) . 16. Thyrsacantlins Jlagellnm^ Or. (AcantJiacece). 17. G?- 
ratouqjalum micranthum^ Or. {Perriflore(P) \ and 18. Gunnera (PanieaJ 
insignis, Or. (^Gunyierace<e), 
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TTe shall be glad to sre the second part of this beautifully -illustrated 
and important work. 
^i^^^£/i Organografici sui Fiori e sui Fnitti delle Conifere, By P. Par- 
latore. Florence; 18G4. With Three Plates. 
M. Parlatore, now working up the Conifer^e for De Candolle's * Pro- 
dromus,' will have the advantage of promulgating his opinions on the 
vexed question of the structure of the floral organs of those plants in 
the most widely diffused botanical work of the day, M. Parlatore dis- 
tinguishes in the cones of Coyiifera three different parts, the bracts, the 
scaly organ, and the female flower. He agrees with Schleiden in con- 
sidering the scaly organ an axillary bud, separated from its mother-hud 
in the Firs, united with it in the Cypresses, etc. In the bud Tie be- 
lieves it possible to distinguish the axis from the bracteolse it bears, 
and which last generally appear as ridges or teeth, and in Taxine^^ 
GnetacedSy etc., form the involucres round the flowers. The greater 
part of the paper is taken up with describing the different appearance 
of these parts as they occur in the various genera, with a degz'ee of accu- 
