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two are found on our northwest coast, two are Himalayan, 

 and one has recently been found at Aucher-Eloy in the moun- 

 tains of Armenia. 



The order Stilbacecc, prepared by Professor Alphonse De 

 Candolle himself, consists of three genera each of a single 

 known species, and of one with five species ; all of them 

 natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 



The Globulariacece, by the same author, comprises the 

 typical genus, with eight species, and a new one of a single 

 species ; all of Europe and of Eastern Asia, except one in the 

 Canary Islands. 



The order Brunoniacece, also by De Candolle, contains a 

 single genus of two Australian species ; both made known by 

 the prince of botanists whose name they bear. 



Mr. Boissier, the most active and promising botanist of 

 the Genevan school, has elaborated the JPlumbaginacece. The 

 tribe Staticece comprises six genera, namely, iEgialitis, R. 

 Br., of the shores of eastern tropical Asia and Australia ; 

 Acantholimon, Boiss., of forty-two Central Asian species, and 

 Goniolimon, Boiss., of seven North-Asian species, — both dis- 

 tinguished from the following by their capitate instead of 

 filiform stigmas : Statice itself, reaching to one hundred and 

 ten species ; Armeria, with fifty -two species, and Limonias- 

 trum, of two Mediterranean species. The Statice of our own 

 coast, S. Carol i?iia?ia, Walt., Mr. Boissier distinguishes from 

 S. Limonium by its fistulous scape, stricter branches, pyram- 

 idal instead of corymbose panicle, the distant one-flowered 

 spikelets, and the very acute calyx-lobes ; the Californian 

 plant he introduces is a new species. The tribe Phimbagece 

 consists of the Siberian Plumbagella, the European and tropi- 

 cal Plumbago, the Abyssinian Valoradia, and the African and 

 North Indian Vosrelia. 



In the Corrigenda to the volume we notice that Bentham 

 has corrected the orthography of Trichostemma, so printed 

 in the " Genera " of Linnaeus, and by mistake in the 

 " Labiatarum Gen. et Sp.," to Trichostema, as written by 

 Gronvius, by Linnaeus in the " Hortus Cliffortianus," and as 

 the derivation requires. 



