BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES, 245 
60° north latitude, viz. Scabiosa Columbaria, Hutchinsia petrea, Geranium 
columbinum and G. lucidum, Epilobium tetragonum, Sorbus hybrida, Lin., 
Lathyrus maritimus, Taxus baccata, Allium ursinum, Cephalanthera rubra, 
Asplenium Ruta-muraria, ete. 
In this same Swedish annual there is a notice of a Conspectus Ona- 
grearum, by P. J. Beurling. q i 
In the same we also find the following extraordinary relation of sight 
restored by the application of Geranium robertianwm: an account of a 
blind man, declared incurable by his physicians, whose sight was re- 
stored after an application of this herb; by A. J. Barth ; 2nd edition 
(Cassel.. Th. Fischer, 1855). 
‘Botanische Zeitung’ for October 12, 1855.—In this number there 18 
an abstract of Meyer’s ‘ History of Botany,’ vol. ii., or ‘Botany im the 
time of Dioscorides and Pliny.’ Why does the Greek rank before the 
Latin? Because he was a Greek? or because he was prior in time? 
A doubtful point. In this volume the history of the science is brought 
down through the decrepitude and downfall of the Roman Empire 
to the time of Charlemagne. Hopeful men are the German physicists, 
including botanists! Who in this country would risk a history of botany 
extending probably to ten or fifteen volumes? Is there any enterprising 
publisher who will undertake to give to English botanists a translation 
of De Candolle’s ‘ Botanical Geography’? We have been told that no 
London publisher would risk the outlay. We regret this. The German 
publishers create a demand by the plentiful supplies; our publishers of 
scientific works do not anticipate the demand, much less create it. — 
The ‘ Botanische Zeitung’ for October 19, 1855, contains a very friendly 
notice of the ‘ Phytologist,’ and full credit is given to the principles on 
which it is to be conducted, followed by an earnest appeal to the lovers 
of scientific truth to give it their support. We are obliged to the editor 
or editors of the ‘ Botanische Zeitung,’ for the encouragement they afford 
us, and we beg to assure them that though our Journal be chiefly devoted 
to the botany of our fatherland, yet that we consider Germany as the 
fatherland of our ancestors; and as there is a community or identity ex- 
isting between the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic races, so there is the same 
or a similar identity between the plants of the two countries. The plants 
common to England are common to Germany. Hence we have an in- 
terest in the vegetation of Germany, as we feel an interest in the pros- 
perity and progress of her scientific sons, to whom we acknowledge our- 
selves especially indebted for many enlarged and profound views of other 
sciences as well as of botany. 
In the ‘ Botanische Zeitung’ for October 26, there is a review of F'. Roch- 
leder’s ‘ Phyto-Chemistry’ (the chemistry of vegetation or vegetable chemis- 
try). We regret that we cannot give an analysis of this very interesting work. 
We think that this science is only in its infancy among us; and our 
Journal is not adapted for the discussion of these new subjects. We only 
wish to point out to those who take an interest in the chemistry of or- 
ganized bodies, that they will find at least something new in this work. 
{t is published at Leipsic, by Engelmann. } 
November 2.—In this number of the ‘ Botanische Zeitung’ there is a 
paper by D. F. L. von Schlechtendal, on “Abnormal Catkins of Wil- 
