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cases, we have frequently ventured to substitute a more simple'version 
of our own.” If e noticed are specimens of the sub- 
stitutions referred to, we can only say that the objection of fidelity to 
the language and true spirit of the original is removed by the Ameri- 
can editor as far as possible under the circumstances; but the sim- 
plicity of the new version is more apparent to us than its propriety 
or taste. A. G. 
2. De Vriese and Harting : Monographie des Marattiacées. Ley- 
den and Dusseldorf. 1858. Elephant 4to, pp. 60, with 9 plates.—The 
systematic part of this work is by Prof. De Vriese of Leyden. The 
botanists. The number of species appears to be unduly 
multiplied. 
To one of de Vriese’s new species from Luzon must belong r. Brack- 
enridge’s Angiopteris attenuata, of the Ferns of the U.S. Exploring Ex- 
pedition,—a volume long since printed, but the publication of which is 
unaccountably delayed. Poe A. Ge 
Pritzel: Iconum Botanicarum Index Locupletissimus. Berlin. 
~ 1854. pp. 1183, imp. 8vo.—A most useful volume, containing referen- 
‘York: Barnes & Co. 1855. pp. 612, 12mo.—Prof. Darby is a dis- 
Unguished teacher, and he has devoted much pains and study to the 
Preparation of the present work, especially to the structural and physi- 
ological part of it. In this department he has been an original observer ; 
While in Systematic Botany,—which has many more votaries in this coun- 
try, pursuing it to a certain extent,—he would probably claim to have 
bs he book is 
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ext-book for the Colleges and High Schools of the Southern States. 
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