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_ Prof. E. Forbes, and illustrated with lithographic figures. There are 
also descriptions of the fossil’ fruits of Palms of the genus Nipadites. 
The nut has some little resetnblance in shape to a cocoanut and is often 
six inches long. Thirteen species are enumerated by Mr. Bowerbank 
from the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey ; and among the Belgian 
fossils this author recognizes four of the English species. Both the 
Echinoderms and Palm fruits are from the Middle Eocene. 
Ill. Borany anp Zootoey. 
1, The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage: II. Flora of New Zealand ; 
by Joseru Datton Hooker, M.D., F.R.S. Part I. London: Reeve 
& Co. 1852. 4to. pp. 80, tab. 1-20.—This work was announced in a 
earlier Flora Antarctica was given in vol. viii, 161. The plan of the 
which are explained in the Introduction. The Flora Antarctica being 
addressed to scientific botanists alone, the descriptions as well as the 
characters were written in Latin, and well-known plants were merely 
enumerated, without being described, except where the characters re- 
quired considerable emendation. But the Flora of New Zealand, be- 
ing that of an important British colony, is planned so as to be most 
useful to the colonial student, as well as to the learned botanist. The 
pliest language that can be applied to botany.” Even the derivation 
Spicuous.” It will not be Dr. Hooker’s fault if this want is not reme- 
di The text of Part I. runs from the Ranunculacee to the Saxifra- 
ished some years ago, in P: 
Irideous plant 
from Panax through Compositz- § ; age 
Brachyglottis with Bedfordia, to Senecio, a view which is perhaps suffi- 
— ciently bo genus Eustylis, proposed on plate xx, in the first 
part, is in the text now reduced to a subgenus of Anisotome. =A. G, 
