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banking community. Our readers will readily anticipate that 

 Mr. Dawson Turner^ jMr. E. Forster, and Mr. W. Borrer are the 

 botanists here alluded to. There are several persons living and 

 still energetic amateurs, who, in the early part of their career, 

 were contemporary with these eminent patrons and promoters of 

 science. 



Herbarium norddeutscher Pflansen fur angehende Lehrer, Phar- 

 maceuten und alle Freunde der Botanik. In einzelnen Liefe- 

 rungen herausgegeben von W. Lasch und C. B/Enitz. Zweite 

 Auflage. Abtheilung 1 : Goniopterides, Hydropterides, Sela- 

 gines. (Preis f Thlr.) Abtheilung 2 : Filices. (Preis 1 Thlr.) 



The above may be freely rendered in English as follows, and 

 it is entered for the information of those who do not understand 

 the original : — ''A herbarium of North German plants for be- 

 ginners, apothecaries, and all lovers of botany, published in parts 

 by W. Lasch and C. Bsenitz. Second edition. Part 1 : Equiseta, 

 Marsiliacea, Salviniacece, Lycopodiacea. Part 2 : Filices.^' 



For several months the review department of the ' Phy tologist ' 

 has been very much in arrear ; and this is the apology we make 

 to our readers and to the authors of the above-named work for the 

 delay in announcing its appearance. We have not yet nearly 

 exhausted the long-accumulating publications. 



The editors, in a brief preface, inform the readers that their 

 previously circulated specimens, viz. 'Herbarium Markischer 

 Pflanzen' (80 no.), had a very favourable reception; "and the 

 call for a second edition of the first portion," they remark, " is a 

 proof that the undertaking has been both seasonable and duly 

 supported." 



" Our endeavours," they continue, " to render the present col- 

 lection as comprehensive as possible have been ably seconded by 

 the most eminent botanists, in all parts. To these friendly cor- 

 respondents hearty thanks are duly tendered, especially for spe- 

 cimens of Equisetum variegatum, Schleich.; Salvinia nutans, 

 Hoffm. ; Isoetes lacustris, Granimifis Ceterach, Sw., etc." 



The portion before us contains all the British species of Horse- 

 tails (if Equisetum Mackaii be excepted) ; also Pilularia, Salvinia, 

 Isoetes, all the Lycopods that grow in North Germany, and aU 

 the Ferns of the same extensive tract. 



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