NOTICES AND EXTRACTS. 



The Potato Plant, its Uses and Properties : together with the Cause of the Present 

 Malady ; the Extension of that Disease to other Plants ; the Question of 

 Famine arising therefrom, and the best Means of averting that Calamity. 

 By Alfred Smee, F.F S., Surgeon to the Bank of England. Longman : 

 London, 1846, 728 



Travels in Lycia, Milyas and the Cibyratis, in Company with the late Rev. E. T. 

 Daniell. By Lieut. T. A. B. Spratt, R.N., F.G.S., of the Mediterranean 

 Hydrographical Survey ; and Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S., of King's 

 College, London, and the Geographical Survey; late Naturalist to H. M. 

 Surveying Ship, Beacon. 2 Vols.. Van Voorst : London, 1847, 731 



On the Physiology and Organography of the Sensitive Plant and other Plants having 

 regular Periods of Rest. By M, Fee (published in the Nouvelle Revue En- 

 cyclopedique for October, 1846), 751 



Au Attempt to arrange the Carices of Middle Europe. By Joseph Woods, Esq., 

 F.L.S. (Proc. Linn. Soc), 768 



Cybele Britannica : or British Plants and their Geographical Relations. By Hew- 

 ETT Cottrell Watson. Longman: London, 1847, 782 



Outlines of Structural and Physiological Botany. By Arthur Henfrey, F.L.S. 

 Parts TIT. and IV. Organs of Reproduction and General Physiology. Van 

 Voorst : London, 1847, 804 



London Journal of Botany, Nos. 60 to 64, dated December, 1846, to April, 1847, 

 805 ; Nos. 65 to 68, dated May to August, 1847, 933 



On the Economy of the Roots of Thesium linophyllum. By William Mitten, Esq. 

 (Extracted from the London Journal of Botany for March, 1847), 807 



Observations on Guano (Extracted from Tschudi's Travels in Peru), 819 



Note on the Natural History of Truffles and their Mode of Production. By M. 

 Robert (Extracted from the Revue Encyclopedique for January, 1847), 825 



Microscopic and General Observations on the Potato. By Dr. Tverman (Extracted 

 from the Fourteenth Annual Report (if the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic So- 

 ciety), 826 



Impoitant Experimentum Crucis, or Direct Proof of the Destruction of the Potato 

 Plant by the Aphis vastator. By Alfred Smee (Extracted from the Sun 

 Newspaper), 831 



Remarks on IJouble-Cropping as a Means of lessening the Risk of Growing Potatoes. 

 By John S. Ents (Extracted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the 

 Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society), 833 



Species Filicum ; being Descriptions of all the known Ferns, particularly of such as 

 exist in the Author's Herbarium, or are with sufficient Accuracy described in 

 Works to which he has had access, accompanied with numerous Figures. 

 By Sir William Jackson Hooker, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., V.P.L.S., 

 F.A.S., &c.. Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. Vol. T., con- 

 taining Gleichenia — Dictyoxyphium. Plates T. to LXX. London : Pamp- 

 lin, 1846, 835 



Manual of British Botany. By Charles Cardale Babington, M.A., &c. Se- 

 cond Edition. Van Voorst : London, 1847, 843,871 



The Elements of Botany, Structural and Physiological, &c. By John Lindley, 

 Ph. D., F.R.S., &c., " 866 



Catalogue of Phaenogamous Plants and Ferns of Great Britain, c^c. &c. By Henry 

 Tbbotson. Part TIT. London : Pamplin, 1847, 878 



Observations on the Potato Disease. By J. O. Westwood (Extracted from the 

 Times Newspaper), 889 



Seventeenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 (From the Athenaeum, dated July 10th, 1847), 909 



