DE CANDOLLE'S PRODROMUS. 



The second part of the seventh volume of De Candolle's 

 " Prodromus " ^ — with which our notices may appropriately 

 commence — was published at the very close of last year, and 

 comprises the following orders, namely, Stylideoe^ Loheliaceoe^ 

 Campanulacece^ CyiMacem (a very small order, founded on 

 the Cape genus Cyphia, and here first proposed by Alphonse 

 De CandoUe), Goodenoviece^ Gesneriacece^ Napoleonece^ Vac- 

 cinece, £Jricacece, Epacridece^ Pyrolacece^ Francoacece^ and 

 Monotropem. Of these, the Loheliacece^ Campanulacece^ and 

 CypMacece were elaborated by Professor Alphonse De Can- 

 doUe, the well-known son of the distinguished author ; the Vac- 

 cinea3 by Professor Dunal of Montpelier ; and the tribe Ericece 

 (the Heath-tribe) was prepared by Mr. Bentham. It will be 

 observed that De Candolle has disposed the Ericacem nearly 

 in the manner first proposed in the " Theorie Elementaire," 

 considering the Vacciniece, Monotropece, Pyrolacece^ etc., as 

 so many distinct families ; a view, however, which will not 

 probably be ultimately adopted. Among the uncertain or 

 little known Ericaceous plants, De Candolle has introduced 

 the genus Pickeringia of Nuttall (which was founded upon 

 Cyrilla paniGulata of the same author, published in the fifth 

 volume of this Journal) ; this, however, has been long since 

 ascertained to be a species of Ardisia, which belongs to a very 

 different order ; and Mr. Nuttall has accordingly recently dedi- 



1 De Candolle. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetahilis, etc. 

 Pars VII., sectio ii. Paris, 1839 (American Journal of Science and Arts, 

 xxxix. 168). — Pars VIII. Paris, 1844 (Ibid., xlvii. 198). — Pars IX. 

 Paris, 1845 (Ibid., 2 ser., i. 174). — Pars XI. Paris, 1847 (Ibid., 2 ser., 

 v. 449). — Pars XII. Paris, 1848 (Ibid., 2 ser., vii. 309). — Pars XIII., 

 sectio ii. Paris, 1849 (Ibid., 2 ser., viii. 300). — Pars XIV., sectio ii. 

 Paris, 1857 (Ibid., 2 ser., xxv. 290). — Pars XVI., sectio i. Paris, 1870 

 (Ibid., 2 ser., xlvii. 125). — Pars XVII. etc. Paris, 1873 (Ibid., 3 ser., 

 vii. 66). 



