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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Flora comitatus Pesthinensis in uno volumine compressa. Auctore 
Jos. Sadler, ed. secunda. Pesth, 1840. 
We have now again the pleasure of introducing to the notice of 
our readers one of the valuable local floras of the continent, most of 
which are so full of valuable notes upon the distinction of species, 
and without which it is quite in vain for us to endeavour to identify 
our native plants with those of the other European countries. The 
work before us, containing 1429 species of flowering plants, is oc- 
cupied with the description of the plants growing wild in the county 
of Pesth in Hungary, and presents a flora, as might be expected, in 
many points differing materially from that of our own country, 
although singularly resembling it in others. Containing as it does so 
large a portion of the Hungarian Flora, this book cannot but be in- 
teresting to such of our botanists as extend their researches upon 
European plants to so distant a country, and to all such we can 
strongly recommend it. 
Supplement to English Botany. No. 51, October, 1840. 
We have just received this new Number of Mr. Sowerby’s excel- 
lent and beautiful Supplement to English Botany, which contains 
plates and descriptions of Achnanthes brevipes, Odontella aurita, 
Erucastrum incanum, Arthrolobium ebracteatum, Laminaria Fascia, 
and Asperococcus compressus. We trust that Mr. Sowerby is now 
about to continue this work at more regular intervals, for the long 
interval which has elapsed since the appearance of No. 50, appears 
to us to be quite unaccountable, since we are well aware that defi- 
ciency of matter is not the cause. 
In the Press. 
A History of British Alge (Sea-weed), by the Hon. W. H. Harvey, 
in 8vo. 
A Journal of a Winter at the Azores and a Summer at the Baths 
of the Furnas, by Henry Bullar, Esq., and Dr. Joseph Bullar, in 
2 vols. 8vo. 
A Grammar of Entomology, by Edward Newman, a new edition, 
almost entirely re-written, 8vo. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIUS, LINN. 
In the ‘ Flora Hibernica’ (p.40.), Mr. Mackay introduces this plant 
as a native of Ireland, from two stations near to Cork, on the au- 
thority of Mr. J. Drummond, and refers to a specimen in the herba; 
rium of the late James Brodie, Esq., now in the possession of David 
Steuart, Esq., of Edinburgh. ‘Through the kindness of that gen- 
