A54 Bibliography. . 
on Natural History in Great Britain. The first article oe the cuter ies. 
an admirable exposition of the Structure of Crucifer cits ree 
Th ‘ 
view, that the two pairs of long stamens, hich: stand opposite the an- 
terior and ical ior sepals respectively, represent each a single organ 
which has been subject to dedoublement, is convincingly maintained by 
many arguments. efore the article reabhed this country, the writer 
— to the placentee,—views which have been well known in 
ountry ever since their publication, or least, shoul be so, as they 
ere incorporated into a common elementary work in 1842. But the 
observations of Mr. Brown upon this aire seem nd to have attracted 
the attention in Europe which they so eminently deserve. Indeed, the 
Bennett’s Plante Javanice Rariores, in which Mr. Brown discusses, 
with his accustomed terseness, the most interesting a of struc- 
ral i i t important 
Botany of South America, giving a critical account of a new mono- 
etalous genus, einschage of uncertain family. 4 ir. Wilson con- 
tributes the characters of three new Australian mosses; of which fig- 
jation, we are ia- 
iission to Thibet, 
“The 
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tinguished ehemist.of Glasgow, whose te -— a lis 
the journey from Simla to Dakur, in the Himalayas ; and 
the editor appends, a rity us of the safe some of thé, 
close of September last, at Giak, a town only five days jo 
Leh (or ga the civil capital of Thibet 
rom the ora, is givena translation of Dr. Sendtner’s ac- 
count of his botanied visit to Bosnia, which has been unfortunate, og 
Sendtner having been attacked by a Bosniak, while botanizing, and se 
verely woun ed, so that he barely escaped with his life. Fendler’s 
Santa Fe oles on is then noticed; as also is the recent pedscorne?: ’ 
en, of the Nelumbium Jamaicense in Jamaica,—a plan 
nd by Dr. Patrick Browne nearly a century ago, b ahi 
nee been seen. It turns out that this species is a true Nelum- 
arly allied to our own North American N. luteum, if not the 
e Com- 
at ae 
ame. uller account of the rediscovery is printed in th 
_.* See notice of Henfrey’s Outlines, d&c., vol. ii, ii ser., p- 444. 
