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Nos. 9 and 10 of the second volume, the publication of which was. 
suspended in the year 1835. The Companion to the Botanical Maga- 
zine took its place fur two years, but this, the cheapest botanical pe- 
riodical ever published in Great Britain, was then discontinued, (for 
the want of adequate support,) or rather was merged in the Annals 
of Natural History, and there was no longer an exclusively botani- 
eal periodical in the English language. The Botanical Magazine 
and the Botanical Register cannot be considered to form exceptions 
to this statement, for they are occupied with figures and descriptions 
of plants interesting to the floriculturist, and newly introduced into 
the gardens or conservatories of Great Britain. About this time, how- 
ever, Dr. Lindley changed the plan of the Botanical Register, a por- 
tion of which is now devoted to botanical information, notices of new 
works, &c., which the talents and opportunities of its learned editor 
render very interesting. The Journal of Botany takes a wider range, 
consisting of extended botanical notices, letters from botanists who 
are making collections in different parts of the world, occasional me- 
moirs and portraits of deceased botanists, descriptions and figures of 
interesting plants, (of the latter there are two in each number,) and 
original articles from the pen of the indefatigable editor, and from 
other botanists, particularly Mr. Bentham and Dr. Arnott. It is pub- 
lished regularly on the first of each month, and the number for Octo- 
{the seventeenth) commences the third volume of the series. We 
trust that the work will receive the support it so richly merits, and 
Which will ensure its continuation. 
"6. Hooker's Flora Boreali-Americana, or the Botany of the Nor- 
thern parts.of British America, 2 vols. 4to. 1829-40.—The twelfth 
part, which contains the remainder of the grasses, the ferns, and the 
small ers allied to the latter, brings this important work to a con- ~— 
clusion Within the limits originally prescribed. The botanists of this 
country especially will regret that the work was not extended so as 
to include the mosses and the Hepaticee, the field of the distinguished 
author's early fame. This fasciculus contains twenty plates, (making 
the whole number 238,) among which are the following species of 
Carex, viz. C. aperta, C. Hoppneri, C. Sitchensis, C. recta, C. Rich- 
ardsonii, C, podocarpa, C. eburnea, (C. alba var. setifolia, Dewey,) 
and C, amplifolia, the greater portion of which are new species de- 
scribed by Dr. Boott. The remaining plates represent grasses, one 
fern, and a species of Lycopodium, all natives of high northern and 
Western regions. The lovers of natural science in this country are 
under the highest obligations to Sir Wm. Hooxer, for his unwearied 
labors upon North American botany. 
