376 Bibliography. 



the Compositse. It is comprised in 223 pages octavo, (Berlin, 1840,) 

 and is entitled the second part of the work : the first, an index of Vols. 

 I-IV, of the Prodromus, although announced as in pi'ess a year or two 

 since, has not yet reached us. 



As to the Prodromus, although the gifted author was not spared to 

 finish his herculean task, it will doubtless be continued, and, we trust, 

 duly completed, by his justly distinguished son and successor. Prof. Al- 

 phonse De Candolle, with the aid of those botanists to whom a conside- 

 rable portion of the remaining orders have from time to time been 

 assigned. It may perhaps be important to the botanists of this country 

 to know, that the elaboration of the ScrophularinecB, LahiatcB, Hydro- 

 phyllacecB, and, we believe, the PolemoniacecB, has been long since un- 

 dertaken by Mr. Bentham ; the Convolvulace<2, by Prof. Choissy, of 

 Geneva ; the PrbnulacecB and Lentiiulacece, by Mr. Duby ; and the 

 Plmnhagi7iacecs, by Mr, Boissier, of Geneva ; the SolanacecR, by Prof. 

 Dunal, of Montpelier ; and the Asclepiadece, by Mr. Decaisne, of the 

 Koyal Museum, Paris ; to all of whom good specimens of the rarer or 

 less known and local species of these respective orders from different 

 parts of this country would doubless be welcome and very useful. 



3. KuntJi, Enumeratio Plantarum, Vol. III. Stuttgardt, 1841. pp. 

 644, 8vo. — We learn that the third volume of this work has recently 

 appeared ; and that it comprises the orders Aracece, (including Lemna 

 and Pistia,) Typhacem, PandanacecB, Naidacece, Juncaginece, Alisma- 

 cece, PalmacecB, Juncacece^ PhylidracecB, Restiacece, Desvauxiacece, and 

 EriocaulonecE. 



4. Loudon's Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum abridged : or the 

 hardy trees and shrubs of Britain, native a7id foreign, scientifically 

 and p)0]jularly described ; with their propagation, culture, and uses in 

 the arts, and with figures of nearly all the species : Abridged from the 

 large edition in eight volumes, and adapted for the use of Nurserymen, 

 Gardeners, and Foresters. — This useful and well digested abridgment 

 of a very important, but somewhat unwieldly and expensive work, is to 

 be comprised in ten monthly parts, published at five shillings each, and 

 will contain many species or varieties introduced into Great Britain since 

 the year 1838, when the large work was completed. Only the first 

 part (published in December last) has as yet reached us : this extends 

 to p. 128, and includes the orders from Ranunculacece. to jEsculacecB, 

 following the arrangement of De CandoUe's Prodromus. The original 

 work is highly and justly valued in this country, as well as in England ; 

 and the extremely moderate price of the new and abridged edition will 

 doubtless secure for it a very extensive circulation. 



