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quate support by reducing the amount of the text and plates and low- 

 ering the price. The monthly numbers of the new series therefore 

 consist of thirty-two pages and one plate each, instead of fifty-four 

 pages and two plates, and the price is reduced to one shilling per num- 

 ber. Not only are the labors of the editor and the drawings furnished 

 gratuitously to the publishers, but, if we are rightly informed, the editor 

 pays for his own copy besides! It will indeed be a national shame if 

 this excellent journal is not properly sustained at this cheap-literature 

 price, after such sacrifices have been made in its behalf. There ought 

 to be many subscribers in this country, especially since under the 

 new postal arrangement, copies may be sent by mail direct from Lon- 

 don to any part of the United States at a moderate rate of postage. 

 The publishers are Reeve, Benham & Reeve, now the most active sci- 

 entific publishers in Great Britain, and who have for the past two years 

 published the London Journal of Botany, of which this is a continua- 

 } tion of equal interest and importance. The contents of the numbers 



for January, February, and March are as follows : — 



Contents of No. 1. — Dr. Hooker's Botanical Mission to India (with a 

 plate) — Dr. Broomfield's Notes on the Botany of the United States 

 Mr. Spruce's Voyage to the Amazon River — A new Esculent Nut — Pat- 

 chouly plant — Jufe Fibre — Chinese Grass Cloth — Pooah fibre of Nepal 



Oadal fibre — Fibre of Sterculia guttata — Musa textilis or Manilla 

 hemp — Dr. Hooker's Rhododendrons of the Sikkim Himalaya — Wal- 

 per's Annals of Systematic Botany — Weddell on the genus Cinchona 



Hertfordshire Flora — Moore's British Ferns — Port Natal Herbarium. 



Contents of No. 2. — Professor Henslow on the Awns of Nepaul 







Barley (with a plate) — Dr. Hooker's Botanical Mission to India — Major 

 Madden, on the Botany, &c, of the Turaee and outer Mountains of 

 Kumaoon — M. Bourgeaud's intended Botanical excursion in Spain 

 Fendler's collection of Plants of New Mexico — The late Dr. Taylor's 

 Herbarium — Prof. Lehmann's critical revision of the genus Potentilla, 

 and the Flora of South Africa— Botanical Appendix to Captain Stun's 

 Expedition into Central Australia. 



Contents of No. 3. — On the genus Triguera of Cavanilles ; by John 

 Miers, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S.— Dr. Thomson's Scientific Mission to 

 Thibet — Dr. Hooker's Botanical Mission to India — Proceedings of the 

 Linna?an Society — Proceedings of the Botanical Society — Mr. I. T. 



I Mackay — Notes on the Botany of California — Deodar Cedar. 



The article on the Botany of California consists of a notice of Major 

 Emory's Report of the military expedition from Santa Fe to California 



] by the Gila. The writer concludes that the great tree Cactus which 



akes such a striking appearance, as figured by Major Emory, and 



which is described by Dr. En<relmann under the name of Cerens gigan- 

 teus, is no other than the well known Cereus senilis, or Old-man Cactus 

 of the conservatories. 



The notice of the Deodar contains an extract of a letter from Dr. 

 Thomson, written from Kashmir ; from which, and from other data, the 

 editor " inclines to the opinion that, if the Deodar of the Himalaya 

 had been discovered in a locality nearer to that of the Cedar of Leb- 

 anon, botanists would have considered it only as a variety of that cffcss- 

 i^al tree ; and, tracing it, as we can do according to the testimony of 



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