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Uus,) and one, or possibly two species of C/ifhamalia, DeCaisne. 

 Metastelma Fraseri is probably a native of the West Indies, not of 

 Carolina. Enslenia albida, we notice, is about to be figured in the forth- 

 coming volume of Delessert's Icones ; as also is Podostigma. Acerates 

 includes ten, chiefly North American species. Asdepias is reduced 

 to forty four species, all of which are American, and the greater part 

 extra-tropical. We are happy to learn that the plates of the fifth vol- 

 ume of the Icones Selectee, of the liberal Delessert — chiefly devoted to 

 the illustration of the eighth volume of the Prodromus — are already in 

 the hands of the engraver. A. Ge. 



2. Repertorium Bolanices Systematicce ; auctore GuiL. Gek. Wal- 

 ters. Leipsic, 18-12 — 4. 2 vols. 8vo. — This work constitutes a sup- 

 plement to De CandoUe's Prodromus, and purports to contain the spe- 

 cies which have been published since the appearance of the successive 

 volumes of the latter. The fii'st volume, (fasc. I-V,) comprising 950 

 pages, brings up the arrears as far as the end of the LeguminoscB. We 

 understand that the second volume, which finishes the work, is also 

 completed ; but of this we have as yet received only three fasciculi, 

 which carries the enumeration to the end of the genus Aster. When 

 the remaining fasciculi reach us, we may, perhaps, ofier some annota- 

 tions respecting the synonymy of some American plants, for which we 

 have not room at present. A. Gr. 



3. Enumeraiio Plantarum omnium hucusqice cognitarum, secundum 

 Familias Naturales disposita ; auctore C. S. Kunth, Prof. Univ. Bei'ol, 

 &c. &c. Tom. IV. Stultgardt and Tiibingen, 1843. pp. 752, 8vo.— 

 This work is making such progress in the ascending series, that the 

 publication of the Endogenous plants will probably be finished about 

 the time that the Prodromus of De Candolle reaches the lowest Exo- 

 genous orders. We shall then have a complete Species Plantarum for 

 Flowering Plants ; a consummation which we hope may be efiected in 

 the course of eight or ten years — possibly by the year 1850. In this 

 volume. Professor Kunth has given the Xyridece, MayacecB, (May- 

 aca or Syena,) Commelynece, Pontederiacece, Melanthacece, Uvulariece, 

 LiliacecB, (rrTulipacese, De C.) to which he refers Medeola ; and 

 finally the AsphodelecE, which fill more than half of the volume. We 

 shall take another opportunity for some critical observations upon the 

 Melanthacece. We will here only repeat our former remark, that the 

 name of Melanthium must be restored to the American species, upon 

 which the genus was established. From Uvularia puherula, Michx., 

 the synonym of Richardson must be excluded. The plant, which is 

 truly a distinct species, is confined to the mountains of Virginia, Caro- 



