A8 Notices of Botanical Literature. 
all the Melastomacee of the Herbarium; and M. Tulasne, who 
has newly elaborated the Podostemacee (in 20 genera); and 
whose researches in vegetable embryogeny, and discovery of Am 
theridia in Lichens, require a notice on another occasion. ae 
M. Claude Gay is still carrying on his elaborate Historia Fi- 
part of the botanical as well as the zoological portion. Of the 
Flora of Chili four volumes (Svo,) are completed, and half of the 
draughtsmen. The work, a truly national one, is sustained, in 
great part, by Chilian subscribers. One of M. Gay’s best col- 
laborators, M. Remy, after elaborating the Composite. for this 
~ work (ina manner on the whole very creditable, ) has been sent, 
by the administration of the museum, to make a botanical inves 
tigation of the Sandwich Islands. iA 
In the death of M. Benj. Delessert science has lost a most el- 
ascularaies ; the Plantes Cellulaires having long since beet 
completed by Dr. Montagne ;) and he has just finished his Flore | 
de I Abyssinie (2 vols, 8vo, with a folio atlas), ae 
explorations in the East, when he was interrupted by a grevious 
domestic affliction. His extensive herbarium has lately been 
much increased by the purchase of the herbarium of Pavon, — 
rich in American plants, in complete and well-preserved speech — 
mens. It was purchased in Spain, through the instrumentality 
Guitifere: M. Duby, with the lower Cryptogamus plants, and | 
with a new edition of the Synopsis Flore Gallia et Helveti@. — 
Prof. Godet of Neuchatel is engaged upon a Flora of the —_ 
and Mr. Shuttleworth, of Berne, with the fine collections © 
Florida and Key West plants sent him by Rugel. . 
