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Sylvan or woodland plants are able to bear shade and tbe drip 

 of trees : as several Orchids, the Bluebell, Primrose, many Ferns, 

 etc. 



Agarial or field plants are generally such as can only thrive 

 where the soil has been pulverized by the necessary operations of 

 culture, whether agricultural or horticultural. These are most 

 annual weeds. 



The plants of a parish or district might be readily and usefully 

 classified after such a scheme as the above ; and hereby botany 

 might be rendered truly interesting, instructive, and suggestive. 



Index Filicum, Part VII. Btj Thomas Moore, F.L.S., P.H.S., 

 Author of the ' Handbook of the British Ferns,' etc. etc. 

 London : William Pamplin, 45, Frith Street, Soho Square, 

 London. 



We are very glad to see another Part of this well known work 

 on the literature of Ferns. 



This number contains the completion of the genus Asplenmm, 

 and the beginning of the genus Aihyrium. The readers of the 

 ' Phytologist' who are interested in the beautiful series of plants 

 whose nomenclature and history are so elaborately worked out 

 in this treatise, need no further information about its scope and 

 objects. These have been repeatedly set before our readers. 



There is however a new feature introduced, which will certainly 

 render this excellent Index more popular, and far more useful, 

 viz. the very expressive diagrams prepared by Mr. Fitch, the 

 celebrated draughtsman of the Royal Gardens, Kew, the eminent 

 artist of the ' Botanical Magazine.' Sis plates are stitched up with 

 this number, viz. Polybotrya, Rhipidopteris, Elaphoglossum — we 

 suppose it is, but this is an inference derived rather from the 

 etymological, than from the typographic art, for there is a 6 

 where an o would be expected, — Lomariopsis, Sieenochlcena, 01- 

 fersia, Soromanes, Neurocallis, Hymenodium, and Stenosemia. 

 This is surely a good shilling's-worth ! Mr. Fitch's name alone 

 is a sufficient guarantee for the fidelity of the representations. 



The publisher announces the issue of the remainder of the 

 plates in consecutive numbers of thirty-six pages of letter-press 

 and six plates. We hope that the list of subscribers will be 



