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Brazil ;" by George Gardner. " Prodromus Monographiae Ficuum ;" 

 by Professor Miquel. Botanical Information: 'Algae Novas Zea- 

 landiae.' Herbarium and Library of the late Dr. Taylor. Notices of 

 Books : 'Posthumous Papers of William Griffith.' Mitchell's 'Jour- 

 nal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.' 



No. 81. Original Papers : "Prodromus Monographiae Ficuum ;" 

 by Professor Miquel. "On some new Chinese Plants;" by H. C. 

 Hance, Esq. " Sur la Famille des Linees ;" by Dr. Planchon. No- 

 tices of Books: Ralfs' 'British Desmidieae.' 



No. 82. Original Papers : " Sur la Famille des Linees ;" by Dr. 

 Planchon. "Description of some Plants new to the British Flora;" 

 by W. Mitten, Esq. " On a new kind of Phormium ;" by M. Auguste 

 de Jolis. Botanical Information : Extract from the Indian News. 

 Dr. Stocks' on the Botany of Scinde. Dr. Stocks' ' Botanical Ex- 

 cursion to Shah Bilawul.' ' Notice of a Species of Fumaria new to 

 Britain;' by Mr. Mitten. Notices of Books: Vriese's 'Descriptions 

 et Figures des Plantes Nouvelles,' &c. Piitzel's ' Thesaurus Litera- 

 turae Botanicae.' ' Plantae Preissianae.' Trautvetter's ' Plantarum 

 Imagines et Descriptiones Floram Rossicam illustrantes.' Emerson's 

 ' Report on the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts.' Tuckerman's 

 ' Lichenes Americae Septentrionalis Exsiccati.' Pappe's ' List of 

 South African Plants used as remedies by the Colonists.' Miquel's 

 ' Revisio Critica Casuarinarum.' 



It will be seen from this list of contents of the London Journal, 

 that they are addressed to general botanists, and possibly may not 

 possess much interest in the eyes of those who cultivate British 

 botany in particular. To this the last number offers one important 

 exception, by the paper of Mr. Mitten, which professes to describe 

 plants not before " noticed by any writers on British Botany," so far 

 as Mr. M. was aware. New British plants come upon us so fre- 

 quently now, that a writer may well be excused for supposing him- 

 self to be announcing, for the first time, some plants which had 

 been earlier recorded by others. Mr. Mitten requires this indulgence 

 for a part of his list of novelties ; perhaps not for all of them. But 

 before seeing examples of the latter, we feel it unsafe to say whether 

 they are truly novelties, or simply familiar plants under fresh names. 

 The following is Mr. Mitten's list : — 



1. Poientilla mixta (Nolte apud Reich, fl. Germ. Exsic. No. 1743), 

 found on waste ground near Valebridge, in Keymer, Sussex, in small 

 quantity. On this plant the author of the paper remarks, " unde- 

 niably very close to Potentilla reptans, Linn., of which it may be but 



