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teach, and has produced an excellent work, of a very elementary and 

 popular character, well adapted to the end in view. It is not a full 

 systematic treatise, like that of Jussieu ; but is formed on the model 

 of Rousseau's Letters upon Botany, and is intended to occupy the same 

 place as Lindley's Ladies' Botany in England. The author first gives 

 a series of figures of fifty common plants, the representatives of as 

 many different natural orders. These are executed in wood, of the 

 size of life for the most part, colored after nature, and accompanied 

 with brief popular descriptions. Then follows a familiar analysis of 

 their flowers, and a series of particular studies of each plant, so man- 

 aged as to introduce in succession all the leading facts and doctrines of 

 structural and morphological botany. The seed, the inflorescence, the 

 elementary structure of plants, their physiology, and the general prin- 

 ciples of classification are afterwards more systematically considered 

 in separate chapters. The text is copiously illustrated with wood cuts, 

 some seven hundred in number, executed in the very best style of the 

 day, from drawings which, as the best guaranty of their scientific accu- 

 racy and artistic excellence, we need only mention were furnished by 

 M. Decaisne, of the Jardin des Plantes, who is one of the ablest 

 botanists in France. The paper and typography of the volumes are 

 truly beautiful. The price is fifteen francs, or twenty five francs for 

 those copies which have the atlas colored. A. Gr. 



6. Sy sterna Materice Medicce Vegetahilis Brasiliensis ; composuit 

 Car. Fred. Phil, de Martius. (Leipsic, 1843. pp. 155, 8vo.) — This 

 little treatise is one of a long series of very interesting works on the 

 natural history of Brazil, with which Prof. Von Martius has been occu- 

 pied since his return from his scientific visit to that country. Among 

 the fruits of that journey are the splendid Genera et Species Pal- 

 marum, which has forever associated the name of Martius with the 

 princely family of the Palms, the Nova Genera et Species PI. Brasil. 

 and the Flora Brasiliensis now publishing by Martius and Endlicher, 

 which we had occasion to notice in a former volume of this Journal. 

 In the present work, all the known Brazilian plants which are employed 

 medicinally in that country, are systematically considered under the 

 following classes. Class 1. Amylacea ; 2. Mucilaginosa ; 3. Pingui- 

 oleosa ; 4. Saccharina ; 5. Acida ; 6. Amara ; 7. Adstringentia ; 

 8. Acria; 9. ^therese-oleosa ; 10. Resinosa et Balsamica ; 11. Nar- 

 cotica ; with an appendix of Tingentia, or plants employed for their 

 coloring matters. An interesting appendix is added, enumerating the 

 Brazilian equivalent or substitute for the several principal articles of 

 the European pharmacopceia. In connection with the above, we should 

 notice 'another small treatise of the same author upon the physical 



