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Art. LIII. — Notice of ' The London Journal of Botany,^ being a 

 New Series of ' The Journal of Botany.' By Sir W, J. Hooker. 

 London : Bailliere, Regent Street. 



It is with feelings of unmingled satisfaction that we announce the present spi- 

 rited recommencement of this invaluable work. While we are endeavouring to render 

 our pages as popular as scientific accuracy will permit ; and while we avowedly give 

 the preference to everything connected with British Botany, the * Journal ' must at- 

 tract those laborious and erudite papers, which, although invaluable as works of refe- 

 rence, are scarcely calculated for the hasty perusal of those readers who seek in a pe- 

 riodical the passing information — the botanical chit-chat of the day : it must also 

 continue to obtain those minutely descriptive latin lists of exotic novelties which have 

 hitherto rendered its pages so acceptable to the technical botanist. Our little ephe- 

 meral will be contented with those lighter contributions — those unstudied brevities 

 and observations which, delightful though they be to ourselves and to numbers of our 

 readers, would detract from the scientific dignity of the graver ' Journal.' 



Thus each of these botanicals will take what the other is glad to give, and so pro- 

 mote the prosperity of its friendly rival. Influenced by these feelings, we wish the 

 " New Series " every success ; and though our naiTow limits preclude the possibility 

 of giving anything like an analysis of the numbers as they appear, we purpose always 

 giving a list of the articles, and occasionally transferring to our chapter of ''Varieties" 

 any paragraph relating to British Botany, which we think vdll be interesting to our 

 readers. The following are the contents of the two numbers already published. 



I. Notes on a Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of North Carolina, &c. with 

 some remarks on the Botany of the higher Alleghany Mountains. (In a letter to Sir 

 W. J. Hooker; by Jsa Gray, M.D.) II. Notes upon Cape Orchidacea; by Pro- 

 fessor Lindley. III. Descriptions of several New Genera of South-African Plants; 

 by The Hon. W. H. Harvey. IV. Some Account of the Paraguay Tea, (Ilex Para- 

 guayensis) ; by The Editor. Botanical Information : containing Notice of New Brit- 

 ish Plants — 1. Equisetum elongatum, of Willdenow. 2. Chara latifolia, Willdenow. 

 3. Polyporus nitidus. Fries ; the latter found by H. O. Stephens, Esq. on the decay- 

 ing bark of trees near Bristol. Notices of Botanical Works. — Endlicher's Genera 

 Plantarum. Endlicher's Iconographia. A Manual of British Algae, &c. by the Hon. 

 W. H. Harvey. Steudel's Nomenclator Botanicus sen synonymia plantarum uni- 

 versalis Ed. 2. Contributions to the Flora of India, by William Griffith. Arbo- 

 retum et Fruticetum Eritannicum, by J. C. Loudon. V. The Plants of the Grampi- 

 ans viewed in their relations to altitude ; by Hewett Cottrell Watson, Esq. — This is a 

 carefully prepared list of more than 400 plants ; the altitude attained by each species 

 in three diflerent localities being given : the list is preceded by many valuable obser- 

 vations. VI. Description of Trochopteris, a new genus of Ferns; by George Gardner, 

 Esq. VII. Notices of some plants new to the Flora of Britain ; by Hewett Cottrell 

 Watson, Esq. — Short notices of the discovery of these plants, — Linaria Bauhini, 

 Lolium multiflorum, and Bromus commutatus, will be found in the Report of the 

 Proceedings of the Botanical Society of London (Phytol. 136). Botanical Informa- 

 tion : — Extracts of letters from Mr. Drummond, dated King George's Sound, Swan 

 River, &c., and from Dr. F. W. Hostman, dated Paramaibo. VIII. Biographical 

 Sketch of the late Allan Cunningham, Esq.; by Roht. Heward, Esq. 



