526 



deemed too " intolerable," why not say Spindleworts, on the same 

 principle implied in translating Aquifoliacece into Hollyworts ? 



Under each order the author gives a list of its genera, with syno- 

 nyms, and an estimate of the number of its species. Adding thereto 

 the alliances and orders, we get the following general summary of 

 * The Vegetable Kingdom :' — 



Total 56 303 20806 82606 



In Steudel's ' Nomenclator Botanicus,' edition of 1841, we had 

 6722 genera and 78005 species, exclusive of the "Flowerless Plants," 

 so that Dr. Lindley reduces the species, but greatly increases the ge- 

 nera, unless some misprint occurs which we have not yet detected. 

 Should the number of genera in Exogens be 8062 instead of 1 8062 ? 



C. 



Notice of the ^ Annals and Magazine of Natural History , No. 112, 



dated April, 1846. 



Contents: " Observations on the tribe Sphaeriacese, and descrip- 

 tions of certain new genera," by Prof. Giuseppe de Notaris (translated 

 from the Italian, and communicated by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley). "A 

 Synopsis of the British Rubi," by Charles C. Babington. " On the 

 Development of Chara," by C. Muller (translated from the Botanische 

 Zeitung for June 12 and 19, 1845). " On the occurrence of Tetra- 

 spores in Algae," by G. H. K. Thwaites. " Botanical Notices from 

 Spain," by Moritz Willkomm (translated from the Botanische Zeitung, 

 November 21, 1845: a continuation of the former papers on the same 

 subject). 



This is an unusually full number in its botanical department; the 

 more important papers, as will be seen, being borrowed from the con- 

 tinent. Mr. Babington brings down his descriptions of Rubi to a 



