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many years of labour expressing himself in such terms as the fol- 

 lowing : " Mycologia enim referatur ad vilia ilia et a plerisque neg- 

 lecta studia quae nee pecuniam nee honores suis parant cultoribus ; 

 sed eo ipso fidos tantum semper habebit, licet paucos, quibus satis 

 erit in naturae gremio acquiescendo infinitam rerum creatarum varie- 

 tatem et artificium admirari." Sweden however is not singular in 

 this respect. Little encouragement is given at home to works on 

 Cryptogamic botany, especially on Mycology ; and in France, we 

 know from the highest authority, that it is regarded as a very infe- 

 rior branch of botany. Germany alone appears duly to appreciate its 

 value. 



Linnaa, ein Journal fur die Botanik, &c. Vol. XII. Part 6. Vol. XIII. 



Parts 1, 2, 1839. 



[Continued from vol. ii. p. 465.] 



Contributions to the genus Mentha ; by A. Rochel. — Supplement- 

 ary observations on Papaveracea and Fumariacea ; by Prof. Bern- 

 hardi. — On the structure of the Flowers of Balsaminece ; by Prof. 

 Bernhardi. — Observations on the Hairs in the Air- tubes of Limnan- 

 themum and Villarsia ; by Drs. Grisebach and Hoffmann. — Monstro- 

 sities of Plants ; by Schlechtendal. 



Vol. XIJI. No. I. 



Anatomical investigation of the reproductive organs of Riccia 

 glauca ; by Prof. Unger. — On Brasilian Vetches ; by Dr. Vogel. — 

 On the Liverworts, collected by Beyrich in North America ; by 

 E. Hampe. — Description of Mount Slavnik and its botanical rarities, 

 particularly Pedicularis Friederici Augusti ; by M. Tommasini. — A 

 very interesting account of a Botanical Excursion to the mountainous 

 regions between Trieste and Fiume ; by the Botanists who accom- 

 panied Mr. Forbes in his botanical excursion to the mountains of 

 Ternova, of which an account is given in this work, vol. iii. p. 236. 

 — Description of a new Pancratium and Gilia ; by C. Bouch^. — Re- 

 marks on American Laurocerasi ; by the Editor. — To the memory of 

 Chamisso ; by Schlechtendal. 



Vol. XIII. No. 2. 

 On Jungermannia Porella, Dick ; by Prof. Schwagrichen. — On the 

 origin and development of Botrytis Bassiana and another parasitic 

 mould ; by Prof. Crivelli. — On a curious monstrosity of Hordeum 

 Himalayense trifurcatum ; by T. Irmisch. — Supplement to the enu- 

 meration of Mexican Ferns, collected by Schiede, Ehrenberg, and 



