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(5.) Cedrus, the Cedar of Lebanon, and the Deodar of Nepal and 
Thibet. 
B. Pinus. 
(6.) Cembra, embracing the P. Cembra of Europe and Siberia, 
P. Peuce of Rumelia, with P. sparsiflora and P. Koraiensis of Japan, 
the Kurile Islands, and Kamtschatka. 
robus, for our White es the allied Lambert Pine and P. mon- 
ticola, of Oregon and the Rocky Mountains, a Mexican species, and 
the P. excelsa of Him 
(8.) Pseudo-Strobus, for fifteen igh or Central American species, 
of which P. Montezume is an exam 
(9.) Teda, comprising our Sbtig! Vested: Loblolly, and Pitch Pines, 
eight Oregon and Californian, two Sea D, or Chinese, two Himala- 
ot one Philippine, and one ‘Persian spec 
0.) Pinaster, comprising the P. Piao and eight other European 
wai it Asiatic species, two Chino-Japanese, and one Sumatran spe- 
cies, with one from N. W. America, and six natives of Eastern North 
merica. 
(11.) Pinea, met eda the Stone Pine of the Mediterranean region, 
the Mexican P. cembroides, and the Californian P. Fremontiana, Endl., 
which is Dr, Torrey? s P. monophyllus, Endlicher having unjustifiably 
changed the specific name on the assumption that each leaf consists of 
a pair unite 
The e Podocarpea, &e., mo Sh i representations in our part of the 
world, need not be here enumera 
Of the Taxinee, we have reprspvihitfond of two out of the five gen- 
era, namely, Torreya (of which the writer in 1839 had occasion to 
point out the original specimens of Taxus nucifera, Kempfer, as be- 
longing to a second species of the genus) and Jarus. One Yew be- 
longs to Europe and Caucasus, one to bi Himalayas, one to Japan, 
one to Mexico, and one to North Amer 
Of the Gnetacew, one genus, elcara: has a 2 Hacer in West- 
ern N. America 
Our geologists will be pleased to know that the litter pas of this 
volume is occupied by a complete synopsis of fossil Coniferze 
- Contributions to the eet _ British Fossil Mammals ( ‘frst 
sorte ; by Ricnarp Owen, F.R.S., &c. London, 1848.—This me- 
Moir is one of the many evidences which have been presented within 
a short period to the scientific world, of the soa activity with which 
the labors of the most eminent of English naturalists are pursued. It 
comprises a description of the remains of s everal era of extinct 
animals, under the eeu e heads. I. Deecription of the teeth of a 
mr sage II, II, 1V. On the teeth and cranium of the Paloplo- 
ther V. On the dentition of Dichodon cuspidatus. VI. On Mega- 
bine ibetuicus and Castor Europeus. VII. On the genus Hyopota- 
‘Mus, and the species H. vectianus and H. bovinus, with remarks on the 
liieifieation of the ulata. 
= a et a will be most interested in the last of these, 
which pre an important modification of the classification of 
val rite: i Here sce by which the natural affinities of the 
members of these groups are more perfectly preserved than by the 
