178 Miscellanies. 



published in Hooker's Icones Plantarum, Vol. I, tab. XVII — XXIV. 

 By the Hon. W. H. Harvey ; to which are added those collected by 

 Dr. Royle in the northern part of India, by J. D. Hooker, M. D., 

 Assistant Surgeon and Botanist in Her Majesty's discovery ship 

 Erebus. 



II. On the establishment of the genus Mouriria, Juss., as the type 

 of anew natural order; together with notes and observations on the 

 structure of the genera Lygodisodea, Cassytha, and Carludovica. 

 By Mr. George Gardner, Surgeon. 



HI. Botanical Information. Notice of the Unio Itineraria. No- 

 tice of Mr. Gardner's Travels and Collections in Brazil. 



IV. Contributions towards a Flora of South America. Enumera- 

 tion of plants collected by Mr. Schomburgh in British Guiana. By 

 George Bentham, Esq., F. L. S. 



10. Hooker; Icones Plantarum, or Figures, with brief descrip- 

 tive characters and remarks, of new or rare plants, selected from 

 the author's Herbarium. Part VI. (Vol. 3, part 3.) 1840. — The 

 following North American plants are figured in this part, viz. 



Cevallia sinuata, Lagasca. — Texas. Oplotheca Floridana, Nutt. — 

 Florida, &c. O. gracilis, a new species from Texas, is described but 

 not figured. Ceanothus papillosus, Torr. <^ Gr. — California. Grayia 

 polygaloides. Hook. <Sf Am. — Rocky Mountains. Loeflingia Texana, 

 Hook. (L. squarrosa, Nutt.) — Texas. Hymenolobus divaricatus, Nutt. 

 — Oregon. Merimea (Bergia) Texana, Hook. — Texas. Trifolium ob- 

 tusiflorum, Hook, fy Am. — California. Phaca densifolia, Smith.- — 

 California. TrifoJium macrocalyx, Hook. — Texas. Stylopus ver- 

 nus, Raf. — Kentucky. Condalia obovata. Hook. — Texas. Amygda- 

 lus glandulosa, Hook. — Texas. This part also contains the figure of 

 a New Holland Claytonia ! (C. Australasica, J. Hook.) which is cer- 

 tainly something remarkable. Many North American plants are fig- 

 ured in the preceding portions of this work, which is by no means ex- 

 pensive, and we think all our botanists and lovers of plants would 

 find it very useful. 



11. Linnma: Ein Journal fur die Botanik in ihrem ganzen JJm- 

 fange. Herausgegeben von D. F. L. Von Schlechtendal. [The 

 Linngea : A Journal of Botany in all its departments, &c.] — The Lin- 

 nsea, edited by Prof. Von Schlechtendal of Halle, is published every 

 two months, and has an extensive circulation in Germany and through- 

 out Europe. The price is about seventy-five cents per number, each 

 of which contains from sixty to one hundred pages of original matter, 

 and about as many more filled with notices of new works, botanical 



