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Nos. 9 and 10 of the second volume, the publication of which was 

 suspended in the year 1835. The Companion to the Botanical Maga- 

 zine took its place for two years, but this, the cheapest botanical pe- 

 riodical ever published in Great Britain, was then discontinued, (for 

 the want of adequate support,) or rather was merged in the Annals 

 of Natural History, and there was no longer an exclusively botani- 

 cal periodica] in the English language. The Botanical Magazine 

 and the Botanical Register cannot be considered to form exceptions 

 to this statement, for they are occupied with figures and descriptions 

 of plants interesting to the floriculturist, and newly introduced into 

 the gardens or conservatories of Great Britain. About this time, how- 

 ever, Dr. Lindley changed the plan of the Botanical Register, a por- 

 tion of which is now devoted to botanical information, notices of new 

 works, &c., which the talents and opportunities of its learned editor 

 render very interesting. The Journal of Botany takes a wider range, 

 consisting of extended botanical notices, letters from botanists who 

 are making collections in different parts of the world, occasional me- 

 moirs and portraits of deceased botanists, descriptions and figures of 

 interesting plants, (of the latter there are two in each number,) and 

 original articles from the pen of the indefatigable editor, and from 

 other botanists, particularly Mr. Bentham and Dr. Arnott. It is pub- 

 lished regularly on the first of each month, and the number for Octo- 

 ber (the seventeenth) commences the third volume of the series. We 

 trust that the work will receive the support it so richly merits, and 

 which will ensure its continuation. 



5. Hooker^s Flora Boreali-Americana, or the Botany of the Nor- 

 thern parts of British, America, 2 vols. 4to. 1829-40. — The twelfth 

 part, which contains the remainder of the grasses, the ferns, and the 

 small orders allied to the latter, brings this important work to a con- 

 clusion within the limits originally prescribed. The botanists of this 

 country especially will regret that the work was not extended so as 

 to include the mosses and the Hepaticese, the field of the distinguished 

 author's early fame. This fasciculus contains twenty plates, (making 

 the whole number 238,) among which are the following species of 

 Carex, viz. C. aperta, C. Hoppneri, C. Sitchensis, C. recta, C. Rich- 

 ardsonii, C. podocarpa, C. eburnea, (C. alba var. setifolia, Dewey,) 

 and C. amplifolia, the greater portion of which are new species de- 

 scribed by Dr. Boott. The remaining plates represent grasses, one 

 fern, and a species of Lycopodium, all natives of high northern and 

 western regions. The lovers of natural science in this country are 

 under the highest obligations to Sir Wm. Hooker, for his unwearied 

 labors upon North American botany. 



