198 Bibliography. 



Art. XIV. — BihliograpJdcal Notices. 



1. De Candolle, Prodromiis systematis naturalis Regni Vegetabilis, 

 sive Enumeratio contracta Ordinum, Generum, specierumque Plantarum 

 hue usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta : Edi- 

 tore et pro parte auctore Alphonso De Candolle. Pars VIII, sistens 

 CoroUifl. Ord. xiii. Paris, 1844. pp. 684, 8vo. — We can at length 

 announce the publication of this important volume ; the first of the se- 

 ries under the editorship of the son of the great Genevan Botanist, and 

 which he has appropriately dedicated to the memory of his illustrious 

 father.* We are glad to state, that arrangements have been made to 

 expedite the publication of the succeeding volumes. The printing of 

 the ninth, it is said, has already commenced, and its appearance may 

 be expected in the autumn of the present year. It will contain the Lo- 

 ganiacece, Bignoniacece, Cyrandracece, Sesamecs, and BorraginecB, from 

 the notes prepared by the late Prof De Candolle ; the Hydrophyllacece, by 

 Alph. De Candolle ; the Gentianacece., by Grisebach ; the PolemoniacecB, 

 by Bentham, and the Convolvulacece^ by Choisy. The tenth volume will 

 be occupied with the Solanacece^ by Dunal, and the Scrophularinece, by 

 Bentham ; in the elaboration of which orders, these two distinguished 

 botanists are now actively engaged. Before noticing the contents of the 

 present volume, it may be worth while to say, that, in the hands of the 

 new publishers, (Fortin, Masson & Co. of Paris,) its typographical ap- 

 pearance is greatly improved ; and that the price of the whole work is 

 much reduced. Although details of this sort belong rather to an adver- 

 tisement than to a critical notice, yet, as most of our botanical readers 

 throughout the country, may not meet with the publisher's announce- 

 ment, we may oblige them by stating, that the price of the whole eight 

 volumes is ninety four francs ; that of each of the seven earlier volumes, 

 thirteen francs ; that of the eighth volume separately, sixteen francs. 

 The first order in the volume before us, the Lentibularice, is prepared 

 by the editor. The North American species of Utricularia, are distri- 

 buted into three sections, viz. 1. Megacista, where the verticallate foli- 

 age is floated by inflated petioles : 2. Lentibularia, where the capil- 

 lary segments of the submersed foliage are utriculiferous ; and 3. Oli- 

 gocista, where the leaves are few, undivided, and disappear after flow- 

 ering ; the roots strike into the soil or mud, and generally bear the 

 utriculi, when these are present. U. resupinata, discovered by B. D. 

 Greene, Esq., and first mentioned in the Massachusetts Catalogue of 



* " Memorial suavissima Parentis Optimi Al-phonsius filius patria Vestigia passu 

 licet non aquo persequutus pio animo dedicabat." 



