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for the scarcity of Lophodium Feenisecii ; in every other part of Ire- 
land I have been it is abundant, but is entirely absent here from loca- 
lities suited well, one would think, for it. The same remark may also 
apply to Polystichum aculeatum, which in the neighbouring county 
of Kildare is most abundant, as at Tullow. | Notolepeum Ceterach is 
a more southern fern, and also a frequenter of limestone or clay-slate ; 
whilst most of the district from which these remarks are compiled is 
granite or quartz-rock. The Lycopodiums and Equisetums call for 
no remark, further than those in the commencement of this list. 
J. R. KINAAN. 
Donnybrook, near Dublin, 
June, 1854. 
Notices or New Books. 
: the Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald” By BERTHOLD 
Seemann, Ph.D., M.A., F.L.S., Memb. Imp. L. C. Acad. 
Royal 4to. Parts ITI. id TV: édeti containing 40 pages of 
letterpress and 10 Plates. Price 10s. each. London: Reeve. 
1854. 
- Tuts valuable work is continued with the same spirit, skill and 
learning with which it was commenced. It consists chiefly of a care- 
fully compiled list of the species found during the voyage; and the 
portion now in course of publication will form a very complete Flora 
of the Isthmus of Panama. The new genera and species are described 
with great minuteness; and here and there occur critical observa- 
tions, that evince at the same time great knowledge and sound judg- 
ment. Such, for instance, is the following, on the Turneracee and 
Passifloraceze :— 
“All botanists consider Turneracee and Passifloracee as allied 
to each other, but few seem to be aware that these orders are so 
closely related as they really are, that the differences between them 
are merely imaginary, that in fact they constitute one and the same 
family of plants. I was led to this conclusion by the discovery of the 
American genus Erblichia, Seem., figured in Plate XXVII., and by 
the subsequent examination of several Turneracee. All Turneracez 
are described in systematic works as ‘herbaceous plants, having some- 
times a tendency to become shrubby.’ This description however 
applies to only a few Tumeras; T. Salicifolia, St. Hid. (I. Hindsiana, 
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