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be given lithographic figures of " entirely new or very little known 

 plants " contained in the author's herbarium. He will be assisted in 

 the work by Mr. Gardner, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Calcutta. The first fasciculus is published. 



Another work, similar in character, is the ' Sertum Exoticum ' of 

 Miguel, author of ' Observationes de Piperaceis et Melastomaceis.' 



The reprint, and translation, of Johnson's 'Iter Plantarum,' has 

 already been announced in our pages (Phytol. 908), The original 

 of this work is exceedingly rare, the copy in the Banksian library 

 now in the British Museum appearing to be the only one in exist- 

 ence. The new edition will be so printed that the English transla- 

 tion will occupy the page opposite the Latin text. The tract contains 

 a journal of probably the earliest botanical excursion undertaken by 

 the Apothecaries' Company. The following localities, among others, 

 were visited by the author : — Erith, Dartford, Gravesend, Rochester, 

 Sheppey, Faversham, Canterbury, Margate, Sandwich and Deal, in 

 Kent : and in Middlesex, Kentish-town, Highgate and Hampstead, 

 including Hampstead-heath and Caen-wood. By way of comparison 

 of the present with the former botanical state of this district, Mr. Ir- 

 ving's List of Hampstead-heath Plants will be appended : facsimiles 

 of the curious illustrations will also be given. 



The eighth volume of DeCandolle's ' Prodromus Syst. Nat. Regni 

 Vegetabilis ' was announced for last November, but had not been re- 

 ceived when this No. of the Journal went to press. This great work 

 has been continued by the son of the lamented author, and the assist- 

 ance of some of the most eminent botanists of the day has been se- 

 cured. The eighth volume includes the following families : — Lenti- 

 bularinge, Primulaceae, Myrsinese, iEgiceraceae, Theophrasteae, Sapo- 

 tacesB, Ebenacese, Styracese, Oleacese, Jasminese, Apocyneae, and 

 Asclepiadese. 



In Walper's ' Repertorium Botanices Systematicse ' the arrangement 

 of Decandolle's Prodromus has been followed, and it may be consi- 

 dered a Supplement to that work. The second volume concludes with 

 the Monotropese. 



Three supplementary numbers to Endlicher's ' Genera Planta- 

 rum ' have appeared ; they contain new genera, as well as corrections 

 of those previously published : the third number includes an arrange- 

 ment of the Algse, with their generic characters, a catalogue of species 

 and a list of algological writers. 



Schnizlein's ' Iconographia Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegeta- 

 bilis' may be considered as supplying the place of Endlicher's ' Ico- 



