50 Notices of Botanical Literature. 
Magazine and of his Journal of Botany, has at length resumed 
the publication of his Species Filicum ; part five, the first part 
of the second volume, having been issued last summer. It com- 
mences his fourth suborder, Pteridee, (coinciding with the Adi 
antacee of Presl,) and is chiefly occupied with the genus Adi- ) 
antum. KE 
He has also resumed, with Reeve and Benham for publishers, 
his Lcones Plantarum, which H. Bailliere threw up three years ago, ) 
at the close of the eighth volume. — It is now issued in monthly 
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press required. But the sale of scientific periodicals 
most scientific publications in Great Britain, is inconceivably — 
small. We must not forget Sir Wm. Hooker’s magnificent pu 
of the splendid subject. A new house is building for the Viet 
ria at Kew gardens, with a tank large enough to show this gi 
gantic Water-lily to advantage, and allow of its full development. — 
A successful attempt has lately been made to flower this plant in 
e open air, at Chelsea, near London ; the pond, however, being — 
artificially warmed by hot water pipes; but this, as Mr. Dow» — 
ing remarks in the Horticulturist, would probably be unnecessaly _ 
in the United States. Even at the north, our sultry summer's ~ 
sun might heat a shallow pond sufficiently to bring well into 
flower vigorous individuals planted out in June or Jaly.* ; ! 
second part of Dr. J. D. Hooker’s superb Rhododendrons f 
Sikkim Himalaya, (illustrating ten more species,) was published 
last spring, about the time of the return to England of this at 
dent explorer and accomplished naturalist, from the field whee — 
he has been gathering so many laurels ;—and even a third is noW 
nearly ready. at : at 
feet high; it is covered by about 45000 square feet of glass, all set in iron, and ! 
heated by 24000 feet of hot-water pipes, and a thousand square feet of tanks. Aaé 
also the Museum, which the director has recently established, and which “is de _ 
tined to receive all kinds of fruits and seeds, ums, resins, dye-stuffs, drugs, sections — 
of woods, and all curious vegetable products, es ecially those that are useful in boll | 
rts, in medicine, and in domestic economy.” This collection is rapidly increasi0é 
in extent and value; and it is alread one of the most attractive ety instruct? 
a 5 of pegs great scientific deka taishinient ee 
ince this was written we learn that a plant has grown well in such a situatio® 
in the kitchen garden of Mr. Cope, the fash. es of Nes lvania Horticulturs! 
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y nt of t 
tank, kept at the proper tem rature, o its first blossom 
gust. See Downing’s Horticwiurist for Gahan . 
