Botany and Zoology. 437 
Tulasne contends for the nye tr with the former, relying on the general 
sss of the flowers, the perigynous insertion, and the opposite 
es. Dr. Hooker, lowing Lindley, apparently with more reason, 
hips the other view oa ng higher importance to the albuminous 
: liferous, and which, when founded, was ve naturally referred to the 
Schizandree by Dr. Wight. The plates of this memoir, mostly oe 
by the author’s accomplished brother, are truly admirable. 
7. Chloris Andina: Essai dune Flore de la Region Alpine ie Cor- 
. dilléres de ? Amerique du Sud ; par H. A. Wevpe1t, M.D., etc. Paris : 
livr. 1-4, 4to, tab. 1-26.—This belongs to the botanical part of the pub- 
lications of the Expedition = Count Castelnau,—an expedition made 
from Rio de Janeiro to — and then from Lima, to ase Dr. Wed- 
sive edition of his excellent Manual. It is just such m as 
herborizers and young Botanists, of the region indicated, have long 
needed and earnestly desired. The student is not only find in it, 
8 exact description of all the known plants belonging to the “ cooler- 
temperate vegetation” of the Union, but he'finds them arranged in ac- 
cordance with the principles of the most approved Natural Method,—sys- 
tematically exhibiting the essential characters, and structural affinities, of 
the multiform Groups and Families. An artificial Key to the Natural 
Orders is also prefixed, by which the generic name of each plant and 
its place in the system may be readily ascertained. “ 
as a positive peat ma > nse 
ical herborizer, to know that he possesses a work in whic % 
tainly 8 find a reliable account of every indigenous and naturalized plant 
_ Within the designated geographical limits ; and with such an aidat com- 
mand no young person properly instruct ted, or animated by the spirit 
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