Bibliography. 309 



gers are flocking in from the Islands, Oregon and elsewhere, and in 

 the spring I suppose there will be a rush from the States. 



There is at present little or no government here — society is in an 



unsettled state — and yet general order prevails to a remarkable degree 

 a fact which excites surprise even here, and speaks volumes in favor 

 ( of the American character. As a race our people are lovers of order, 



when put in circumstances where there is really no government, 

 their habits of self-government are such that every thing goes on pretty 

 much as it would in any of the old and well governed States. Not- 

 withstanding the thousands of all classes and all countries collected at 



the mines, back in the wild mountains, without an officer of justice 

 withm a hundred miles, and with abundance of rum and gambling, 

 scarcely an instance of serious disturbance has taken place — a shock- 

 ing murder, committed by a drunken man a few weeks a^o, being the 

 first occurrence of the kind that has been known. But in the present 

 state of things — education and moral training being almost wholly neg- 

 lected, and the country fast filling up with the desperadoes and off- 

 scouring of all lands, this state of comparative quiet cannot be ex- 

 pected long to continue. The day of robberies, and outrage, cannot 

 he far distant, and a state of society I fear will prevail that will be 

 anything but desirable. 



VI. Bibliography. 



1. Alph. Be Candolle, Prodromus Reg. Veg. : pars XII, Sisfens 



Labiatas el quinque minores Corolliflorarum ordines. Paris : 5r. Nov., 



pp. 707. — The twelfth volume of the Prodromus, delayed somewhat 



by the convulsions of the Continent, will be welcome to botanists. It 



concludes the series of Monopetalee, with the exception of the small 



family Planfaginaci ;t3, and the large one of Solanacese, which last, 



"rof. Dunal — from whom it has long been due — appears to find by no 



^eans easy to elaborate. Of the present volume, all but one hundred 



pages are occupied by the Labiata, from the hand of the most unwea- 



r *ed and best of monographers, Mr. Bentham. The plants of this large 



order, arranged in one hundred and one genera, are thrown into eight 



tnbes, instead of the eleven in the Labiatarum Genera et Species; the 



katureiene now being made to comprehend the Menthoidere and the 



•Mehssinea3 of the earlier work, and the Scutellarinece being merged in 



*he StachydesR. The Ocf?noidece, comprising nineteen genera, are 



^presented in extra-tropical North America solely by one or two spe- 



Cl es of Hyptis, which inhabit our southeastern frontiers. 



Of the Salureiecz we have Mentha, Lycopus, a single Cimila, Pyc* 

 nanthemum (the whole seventeen species), an anomalous Satureia (S. 

 r, gida, Bartr.), three species of Micromeria ; while to CalamiiUha is 

 now referred the former M. glabella and M. Nuttaliii, as well as the 

 Gardoquia Hookeri, Benth., with the new C. canescens, Torr. and Gr. 

 MSS., and C. Caroliniana, Sweet (Thymus, Michx.) : also two spe- 

 cies of Dicerandra (of which D. densiflora is a new one from Florida); 

 the Californian Pogogyne ; Hedeoma, including FI. ciliata (Keithia 

 ciliata, Bcntk., Lab.) \ and ColUnsonia, of which six species are re- 

 cognized. 



