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in obtaining correct names for their collections. To assist in 

 remedying this complaint, I have been induced to draw up a 

 Catalogue of Ferns cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens at 

 Kew," etc. As this Catalogue is obtainable at the lowest pos- 

 sible price, we think it better to recommend our readers to pur- 

 chase it than to give a detailed account of its contents. We have 

 heard the gratifying fact that it has a brisk sale, and this is one 

 of the very best criteria of the merits and utility of the book. 

 The lovers of Ferns, and they are numerous and daily increasing, 

 may, with propriety be congratulated on the extent, variety, and 

 excellence of the literature specially devoted to the objects of 

 their study and admiration. A. I. 



The London Catalogue of British Plants. Published under the 

 direction of the Botanical Society of London. Fifth edition. 

 WiUiam Pamplin. 1857. 



We have much pleasure in announcing this most useful pub- 

 lication, the fifth edition of which is now offered to British bo- 

 tanists. This is a gratifying fact, a proof that the small though 

 select botanical public of England avail themselves of a cheap 

 Catalogue of Native British Plants, a work which we believe no 

 nation in Europe but England enjoys. There is another fact, in 

 addition to this being the fifth edition, connected with this new 

 issue of a most useful list, viz. that its price is now reduced from 

 sixpence to fourpence. We remember the first appearance of the 

 catalogue of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, which was hailed 

 by all botanists throughout the land as a boon. This catalogue, 

 we believe, cost a shilling. The London Botanical Society, — which 

 we are happy to say, and we have the authority of the authors of 

 this fifth edition for saying it, is not defunct, but in abeyance, 

 shortly to be reconstituted, and to be rendered more efficient 

 than ever, — followed in the wake of its elder northern rival in this 

 good work, viz. it published a catalogue which has long been the 

 text-book and is well known to all British botanists. We beheve 

 the price of the first edition was a shilling ; the price subsequently 

 was reduced to sixpence ; and it is now fourpence. Three copies 

 can now be had for the price of two in former times. The diffe- 

 rence between this and former editions is not very remarkable. It 



