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Art. XX. — Bibliographical Notices. 



1, Caroli LiNNiEi Systema., Genera, Species Plantarum uno volu- 

 mine. Editio critica, adstricta, conferia ; sive Codex Botanicus Lin- 

 nmanus, textum Linnceanwn integrum ex omniius Systematis, Generum, 

 Specierum Plantarum editionihus, Mantissis, Addimentis, seJectumque 

 ex ceteris ejus botanicis libris digestum, collatum, contractu7n, cum plena 

 editionum discrepantia exhihens : In usum Botanicorum, practicum edi- 

 dit hrevique adnotione explicavit Hermannus Eberhardxjs Richter, 

 M. Dr. Prof. Dresd., etc. Leipsic, (Wigand,) 1840. — This book is, as 

 its title denotes, a complete digest of the writings of the immortal Lin- 

 nseus upon systematic botany, an undertaking of great labor, and, we 

 believe, very faithfully executed. It forms a volume of 1100 pages of 

 the small folio or imperial octavo size, (the same as that of the new 

 edition of Steudel's Nomenclator,) closely printed in double columns ; 

 prefaced by some critical and explanatory editorial observations, and 

 by a complete list of the botanical writings of Linnaeus, with notices of 

 the different editions, a catalogue of the authors cited by Linnaeus, &c. 

 The prefaces, dedications, and introductory observations of all the sys^ 

 tematic works are next given ; and the body of the work is devoted to 

 the genera and species, in which, by a well arranged system of abbre- 

 viations, nearly the whole Linnsean text, and the changes or variations 

 of the different editions, are brought within a moderate compass. Such 

 a thesaurus is of great value to botanists, and especially to those who 

 do not possess the original editions of all the works it comprises, many 

 of which are exceedingly rare. To the volume is appended a complete 

 index to the Linnsean genera and species, with all the original synonymy, 

 entitled : In Codicem Botanicum Linnceanum Index Alphaheticus, Gen- 

 erum, Specierum ac Synonymorum omnium completissimus, comjjosuit 

 atque edidit Dr. G. L. Petermann, which is paged separately, and oc- 

 cupies 200 pages, printed in triple columns, extending the work to above 

 1300 pages. It is published at 16 Saxon thalers. 



2. Genera, Species, et Synonyma Candolleana, alphahetico ordine 

 disposita, sen Index generalis et specialis ad A. P. De Candolle Pro- 

 dromum Syst. Nat. Regni Vegetahilis : auctore H. W. Buek, M. D. 

 (Berlin.) — An index of the genera and species contained in the Pro- 

 dromus of the lamented De Candolle, and of their synonyms, has been 

 greatly needed, those of the several volumes of that most important 

 work extending only to the genera. This want Dr. Buek has in part 

 supplied by publishing an index to the fifth, sixth, and first part of the 

 seventh volumes of the Prodromu?, that is, of the immense family of 



