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Messrs. Cuming, Bridges, Matthews, Tweedie, Macrae, 

 Cruickshanks, Gillies, Lay, Collie, Douglas, Scouler, and 

 others, and are preserved in herbariums in this country. We 

 say " enumerates," because some of them, being previously 

 known species, are only indicated ; but the majority of them 

 are, and among them some new genera, now described for 

 the first time : consequently, this paper is a very important 

 contribution to systematic botany, both in Britain and all the 

 world over. A genus, nearly allied to Z)raba, is dedicated to 

 Mr. Mathews, by the name of Mathews/a. Mr. Bridges, too, 

 of whose diligence in collecting the paper supplies gratifying 

 evidence, receives like honour in an interesting genus of 

 shrubs, in the order jRutaceae, named Bridgesm after him. 

 Three new species of lupine are described ; and, amongst 

 them, one (Z,uplnus albescens) is termed a " fine species." 

 Ten new species of O'xalis are described ; and four new 

 species of Fiola of peculiar aspect (of three of which figures 

 are given), which "constitute a natural little group of Fiola, 

 remarkable for the crowded and stellate disposition of their 

 leaves, which are strongly fringed with woolly hairs." We 

 must not, however, pretend to notify the genera to which 

 additions are made. It pleases us to see that the following 

 natives of Britain are also inhabitants of South America: — 

 i?anunculus sceleratus, i'umaria capreolata, Cardamine hirsuta, 

 /Sisj^mbrium officinale, iepidium ruderale, Capsella bursa 

 pastoris, Saghia prociimbens, Arenaria rubra, media Dec. ; 

 Cerastium vidgatum, latifolium, arvense ; Geranium pyre- 

 naicum, columblnum, dissectum, Robert/a;iz^;« ; Erodium 

 cicutarium, moschatum; O'xalis corniculata; iVfedicago sa- 

 tiva, minima, and denticulata. The plants figured in the 

 illustration of this paper are Mathewsm foliosa; Fiola con- 

 g6sta, volcanica, and Asterias ; Crinodendron Patagna^ a 

 Chilean tree, thought to belong to Elasocarpeae ; Tricomaria 

 IJ&illo, a shrub from Mendoza, a genus allied to Bannisterm ; 

 Bridges/a spicata. Genista elegans; Adesmia elegans, tri- 

 foliata; Gourliea; decorticans, a genus in Leguminosae, named 

 by Dr. Gfillies in memory of the late Mr. Robert Gourlie, 

 who botanised successfully at Mendoza, and lately died there. 

 The second paper is an abstract of the proceedings of the 

 natural history society of Mauritius in 1830 and 1831. The 

 third paper is a continuation of an Enumeration of Ferns, by 

 Drs. Greville and Hooker. The fourth paper is on the 

 Genus Sarothra and its affinities, accompanied by a figure 

 and description of S. Drummond^V. The fifth paper is " On 

 Cardamine rhomboidea and rotundifolia of North America," 

 of each of which a figure is given. The sixth paper is a 



