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tats given to the plants in the Synopsis.” This seems to us a very 
valuable addition to the list of species, showing at a glance the coun- 
tries in which each plant has been observed. Dr. Kelaart enume- 
rates 456 species of flowering plants and ferns as native to Gibraltar ; 
of these he considers forty as generally distributed in Europe ; fifty- 
eight as South-European ; sixty-three as common to Europe and 
Africa ; 174 common to the South of Europe and Africa; thirteen 
confined to Spain and Barbary ; ninety-six common to Europe, Asia 
Minor and North Africa ; and twelve confined to Europe and Asia 
Minor. There are 140 British species, 170 Madeira ; about as many 
Canary species, 160 Sicilian, about two-thirds Maltese, and seventy- 
three Azorean. The Jberis gibraltarica is the only species peculiar 
to the rock, although several others derive their names from it. 
The volume is divided into four parts : Part I. gives a very full and 
interesting account of the Topography, including observations on the 
geology (in which the author deplores that the publication (Journal 
of the Geolog. Soc. ii. 41) of the valuable geological account of Gib- 
raltar by Mr. Smith of Jordan Hill did not take place until the greater 
part of his work was printed), climate and medical statistics. Part II. 
is a general account of the Botany. Part III. contains the Synopsis 
of Plants growing in Gibraltar. Part IV. the Botany of the neigh- 
bourhoed of Gibraltar. And in the Appendix is Boissier’s account 
of his visit and the descriptions of new plants found by him. The 
illustrations consist of three interesting views of the rock and a small 
map: we could wish that another map, on a larger scale, had been 
added. 
We can cordially recommend Dr. Kelaart’s book. We have often 
wondered that so few of the enthusiastic young botanists found 
amongst the medical students of Edinburgh and other schools have 
done anything to advance scientific botany, although the employ- 
ment of many of them in the army or navy cannot but afford them 
numerous opportunities. We trust that they will follow Dr. Kelaart’s 
example. 
Works Just PuBLISHED. 
Outlines of Structural and Physiological Botany. By A. HEenrrey, 
Rubee. Seat t. 
«« The chief object of this work,’ observes the author, “is to give a 
concise view of the actual state of our knowledge at the present time, 
to the exclusion of all hypotheses, hazarded without sufficient ground 
or negatived by experience. The various points are treated as they 
rise progressively in complexity ; by this means the development and 
_ morphology of structures and organs will be more easily explained, 
and at the same time will conduce to the simplification of the sub- 
ject, by leading to the recognition of.an unity of plan throughout 
the Vegetable Kingdom.” 
