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greatly increased of late in this country, we strongly recommend 

 this collection of specimens of the Hepaticse of Germany. Each 

 number contains 25 specimens, with the names and localities, but 

 unaccompanied with descriptions. As might be expected, the great 

 majority of the plants given belong to the genus Jungermannia, but 

 specimens referred to the genera Riccia, Marchantia, Anthoceros, 

 and others recently separated from these are also given, so that the 

 collection may ultimately include, as far as possible, all the species 

 of Hepaticse found in Germany. The specimens are good, and very 

 well preserved. 



A . Bertolonii Floi-a Italica, sistens Plantas in Italia et in Insulis cir- 

 cumstantibus sponte nascentes. Bononise, 1833-39. 8vo. 



We have recently received the first Fasciculus of the 4th volume 

 of the above work, which we must crave the pardon of our botanical 

 readers for not having sooner introduced to their notice. It is quite 

 unnecessary for us to say anything in praise of the high botanical 

 attainments of Prof. Bertoloni, since they are universally allowed to 

 have raised him into the first rank of modern botanists ; a character 

 fully supported by the work before us. It is the author's intention 

 to describe all the plants indigenous to Italy and the adjacent islands, 

 and this he has now done (in the first three volumes), as far as the 

 end of Pentandria, in a more complete manner, with fuller descrip- 

 tions, more numerous synonyms, and with a greater number of cri- 

 tical and explanatory observations than we have met with in any 

 other Flora. In the part commencing the fourth volume, which is 

 now more particularly under our notice, the class Hexandria is com- 

 menced ; and in order to convey some idea of the extent of the Flora, 

 and the space devoted to the several species, we append a list of the 

 genera described in this fasciculus of 128 octavo pages, and mark 

 by the numbers following each name, the number of species included 

 in each genus : — Galanthus 2, Leucojum 5, Narcissus 12, Pajicra- 

 tium 2, Sternbergia 2, Allium 31, Lilium 5, Fi'iiillaria 3, Erythro- 

 nium 1, Tulipa 8, Ornithogalum 12, Scilla 12, Asphodelus 5, Anthe- 

 ricum4. In Sir J. E. Smith's 'English Flora' the corresponding 

 genera occupy only 22 pages and include 24 species ; in Bertoloni's 

 work they occupy 128 pages, and include 114 species. 



We cannot too highly recommend this work to the notice of Bri- 

 tish botanists, more especially from its including (as far as at pre- 

 sent published) nearly all the native plants of our own country, and 

 placing them in juxtaposition with the numerous allied species 

 which are found in the south of Europe. 



Ann. Nat. Hist, Vol, 4. No. 25. /rm. 1840. 2 b 



