ORDERS. SPECIES. 



MarsileacesB ... 1 



AlismacesB 3 



Hydrocbarideae 4 



GramineK 48 



Cyperoideae 15 



Commelinacege 2 



Juncaceffi 



Palmse 



Coronariece 



Characeae 



Amenlaceae ..... 

 Urticaceae ...., 



Nyctagineae 3 



Aristolochieae .. 



LaurineaB 



Plumbagineae .. 

 Rubiaceae .... 



420 



ORDERS. SPECIES. 



Brought up. ..93 



Compositas 28 



Poitulacaceae... 12 

 Cucurbitaceae ...10 



Labiatae 9 



Asperifoliaceae...l2 

 Convolvulaceae 18 

 Polygalaceae ... 3 



Personatae 30 



SolanaceaB 7 



Lysimachiaceae 2 

 Asclepiadeae ... 3 



Contortae 1 



SapotaceaB 1 



Umbelliferae ... 1 

 Terebinthaceae... 1 

 Papilionaceae ...39 



ORDERS. SPECIES. 



Brought up... 270 



Cassieae 16 



Mimoseae 5 



Corniculatae ... 2 



Aizoideae 14 



Rosaceae 1 



Onagreae 5 



Lythrarieffi 7 



Tetradynamae ... 6 



Capparideae 6 



Violaceae 1 



Rutaceae 24 



Sapindaceae 4 



Malvaceae 20 



Geraniaceae 4 



Theaceae 1 



Tiliaceas 7 



93 270 Total Species, 393 



From the above enumeration it appears that the Graminese and 

 Cyperaceae amount to 62 species ; the PapilionaceEe to 39 ; the Per- 

 sonatae to 30 ; the Compositae to 27 ; the Rutaceae to 24 ; and the 

 Malvaceae to 20. W. Pamplin jun. 



(To be continued). 



Art. civ. — Notice of ' The Botanical Looker-Out among the Wild 

 Flowers of the Fields, Woods and Mountains of England and 

 Wales' By Edwin Lees, F.L.S., &c. London: Tilt & Bogue, 

 Fleet Street. H. Davies, Cheltenham. 1842. 



We have already given a few extracts from this work (Phytol. 301), 

 and as our limits are very circumscribed, we cannot now do better 

 than allow the author himself to explain the design and scope of 

 the book before us. 



" I WILL admit in limine that I am not here writing to instruct the professional 

 student of Botany. Neither do I aim to surprise my brother botanists by any new ar- 

 rangements in classification or discoveries in physiology. But if I take a humbler 

 rank than the dignity of science may seem to warrant, and thus make no advances in 

 their estimation, still I hope I may be in some degree useful in attracting the many to 

 the pleasures afforded by an examination of plants in their wild localities, and thus, 

 indirectly at least, subserve the cause of Natural History, by enlisting recruits, whose 

 enthusiasm may perchance be awakened by my incitations to observation and adventure. 



" In my experience as a practical collecting botanist for some years, I have jnva- 



