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Magazine, new series (62d of the whole work) is inscribed to 

 this gentleman by Dr. Hooker. It is with pleasure that we give 

 our readers this information, as the Baron Ludwig was lately elect- 

 ed an honorary member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 A package, of various kinds of Cape seeds, was also presented to the 

 society, received from him, and were distributed among the mem- 

 bers. We hope yet, through his liberality, to enrich our gardens 

 with the beautiful plants with which the Cape of Good Hope 

 abounds ; and, in return, we may render much service to the col- 

 ony, by sending seeds, both vegetable, tree and flower, particularly, 

 we presume, of the former. By the same conveyance, which took 

 out his diploma, we enclosed a package of several of the most val- 

 uable kinds of vegetable seeds, and also all the annual addresses 

 of the Horticultural Society, together with several catalogues of 

 trees and seeds. The influence of the society might be greatly 

 increased, and its services rendered far more valuable than they now 

 are, by a more extensive correspondence with its honorary and 

 corresponding members, and with the horticultural societies both 

 of Europe and this country. 



Dr. Lindley has recently published a work, entitled A Key to 

 Structural, Physiological, and Systematic Botany, for the Use of 

 all Classes. It is stated, in Loudon's Magazine, to be a more ma- 

 tured edition of the author's Outlines of the First Principles of 

 Botany, and of his Nixis Plantarum, both included in this one, 

 the Key. In this, the natural orders are consociated into groups, 

 " intermediate in the rank of comprehensiveness between the orders 

 themselves, and those few groups of much higher rank," heretofore 

 employed in some works, among which may be mentioned Lou- 

 don's Hortus Britannicus. We hope, at some future time, to ex- 

 plain this at greater length. 



The author has employed some terms in nomenclature, which 

 are thus explained : " To prevent confusion in the use of names 

 of the numerous divisions in the natural system, it is to be observ- 

 ed, that the names of the sub-orders terminate in ea ; of the orders, 

 in acece ; of the alliances, in ales ; and of the groups, in osce. 

 The higher divisions have merely plural terminations. The ear of 

 the classical critic may be offended at many of these terminations ; 

 but the distinction which they establish is too important not to out- 

 weigh all verbal niceties of construction." 



He also states, that he has " ventured to reform the language of 

 botanists, in some respects, by carrying out their own principles to 

 their full extent ; thus securing a more uniform kind of nomencla- 

 ture, and expressing the value " of the classes, orders, &:c., by the 

 termination of their names. Such an arrangement must certainly 

 meet with the approbation of all botanists ; and Dr. Lindley de- 

 serves much credit for this production. 



In printing the botanical names, in the present volume, we have 



