7 1 4 Smith and Som-erbys English Bulanj/. 



*' Notice to the members of the Unio Itineraria, with a list 

 of the pUints collected in 1831." The seventh and last pajier, 

 which is not completed, is one of much and popular interest. 

 It is entitled " A Sketch of the Province of Emerina, in ihe 

 Island of Madagascar, and of the Iluwa, its inhabitants ; 

 written during a year's residence by the botanists, Charles 

 Theodore Ililsenberg of Erfurih, and Wenceslaus Bojer of 

 Prague in Bohemia : with an Ajipendix on the Tangliinu 

 poison Taiighhiia veneniflua." Of this })lant, a double plate, 

 coloured, is given, and which seems identical with Cerbera 

 Tangliin of the Botanical Magazine, although this identity is 

 not declared. Besides the figures we have indicated, there 

 is one of i-*olypodium melanopuni, and one of Cryptogramma 

 retrofracta, to which we see no description. 



Nees V071 Ese7ihcck : Genera et Species ^sterearum. 



This is reported to be a work which will greatly avail those 

 engaged in the study of the species of the genus y^'ster, and 

 of the allied genera : see Professor Lindley's opinion of it in 

 a quotation presented, p. 723. 



Smith, Sir J. E., M.D. &c., and Sotvcrbj/, James, F.L. S. &c. : 

 English Botany; or, coloured Figures of British Plants, 

 ■with their essential Characters, Synonymes, and Places of 

 Growth. The Secoml Edition, arranged according to the 

 Linnacan iSIethod, with the Descriptions shortened, and 

 occasional Remarks added. London. In 8vo numbers, 

 Is. each ; monthly, or oftener if desired. 



We are glad to see a cheap edition of this excellent and far- 

 famed work supi^lied to the public on terms that will render 

 it obtainable by many whose circumstances would never war- 

 rant their purchasing the first edition. That edition, which 

 sells for 55l., extentis to 36 volumes, and includes figures 

 and descriptions of 2592 native j)lants, 1087 of which, ex- 

 clusive of 55 ferns, are cryptogamic, or, as far as our naked 

 eyes arc concerned, flowerless j)lants. From this second 

 edition all such are to be omitted ; and even the figures 

 of flowering plants, " which represent such nearly allied 

 species as may be readily distinguished by the tlescriptions 

 from those figured." By this omission of some species, 

 " it is siipi)osed that about 1200 jilates will contain the flower- 

 ing plants, which may be bound in six volumes; and, as most 

 of them are ready, no delay is likely to occur." As, however, 

 some purchasers may prefer to possess a figure of every plant 

 described in this edition, Mr. Sowerby proposes to supply 



