Miscellmiies, 175 



The characters derived from the venation of Ferns, which Mr. Brown 

 has applied to the distinction of genera with the consummate skill and 

 caution for which he is so greatly distinguished, and which have also 

 been largely employed by other authors, especially by Bory, Gaudi- 

 chaud, Brongniart, and Schott, are in this treatise carried to an ex- 

 travagant extent. Nevertheless, the work will be useful, to our bot- 

 anists especially, who seldom have access to extensive libraries, or 

 to the scattered observations on this subject in various papers and 

 memoirs. The crowded plates comprise illustrations of nearly all the 

 known genera ; and the work may be purchased for about a dollar 

 and a half. We may observe that the Ragiopteris onocleoides of 

 Presl, is founded on a fertile frond of Onoclea sensibilis, to which a 

 portion of the sterile frond of a very different plant had been applied 

 in the herbarium of Willdenow. The introduction comprises a pretty 

 full account of the organization of Ferns. 



7. Dr. Siebold, Flora Japonica ; sectio prima, Plant<z ornatut 

 vel usui inservientes 3 digessit Dr. J. G. Zuccarini : fasc. 1 — 10, 

 fol. (Leyden, 1835—1839, pp. 100, tab. 1—50.)— This work is, we 

 believe, wholly arranged and prepared by Prof. Zuccarini of Munich, 

 from notes and specimens furnished by Dr. Siebold of Leyden, accu- 

 mulated during his long official residence in Japan. The admirable 

 plates are executed at Munich : they are engraved upon stone after a 

 peculiar method, which is now frequently employed, and are certainly 

 not excelled in beauty or accuracy by any copper-plate engravings in 

 the same style. The portion already published comprises only some 

 of the ornamental or otherwise generally interesting plants ; the gen- 

 eral account of the Japanese Flora being reserved for a future part of 

 the work. The Flora of Japan presents such striking analogies to 

 that of the temperate part of North America as to render this work 

 of more than ordinary interest to American botanists. To show this, 

 we select from the forty-six species described and figured by Zucca- 

 rini, the following list, placing opposite the Japanese plant the related 

 North American forms. 



Flora of Japan. Flora of North America. 



Illicium religiosum, lUicium Floridanum and parvifloram. 



Kadsura Japonica, Schizandra coccinca. 



Bentliamia Japonica, Cornus florida. 



Corylopsis, two species, Hamamelis and Fotliorgilla. 



Aralia edulis, Aralia racemosa. 



Symplocos lucida, Hopea tinctoria. 



Styras Japonicum, s&e. Styrax, several species. 



Deutzia, three species, Philadelplius. 



Schizopliragma hydrangeoides, > C Decumaria and 



Platycrater arguta, 5 \ Hydrangea. 



