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complete recapitulation of the facts or principles which they illustrate ; 

 thus rendermg these pages a most interesting and readable portion of 

 the book. 



4. Genera Planiaruvi seamdum Ordines Naturales disposita, aiic- 

 tore Stephano Endlicher. Vienna, 1836 — 1840. (18 fasc.) pp. 

 1483, imp. 8vo. — We have previously directed the attention of our 

 botanical readers to this truly classical work. We have now to an- 

 nounce the completion of this laborious undertaking, which forms per- 

 haps the most important contribution to systematic botany for the last 

 twenty years. The number of genera described in the body of the 

 work is six thousand eight hundred and ninety-five ; and the additions 

 in the supplement (which occupies a part of the seventeenth and the 

 eighteenth fasciculus) extend this number at least to 7000. The sixth 

 edition of the Genera Plantarum, by Lirmseus, (Stockholm, 1764,) 

 comprises only one thousand two hundred and thirty-nine genera. The 

 work is published, if we mistake not, at a Saxon thaler for each fas- 

 ciculus, and can be obtained in New York. It may be useful to state, 

 that the learned author proposes to publish supplements to this work, 

 either annually or at longer intervals. The tenth and final fasciculus 

 of "the Iconographia Generum Plantarum^ by the same author, has 

 also appeared. 



Apropos to the above, we may remark that Dr. Walpcrs of Berlin 

 proposes to publish, in occasional numbers, a Repertorium Botanices 

 Specialise a digest of the new species, &c. which appear in separate 

 articles or pamphlets, or are scattered tliroughout the scientific period- 

 icals of the day. The work is announced in the Li/mcea, part 1, for 

 the year 1841. 



5. Nomendator Botaiiicus, sen synonymia plantarum universalis, 

 enumerans ordine alphabetico nomina aique synonyma, turn gencrica turn 

 specifica, et a Linnceano et a recentioribus de re hotanica scriptorihus 

 plantis pha7ierogainis imposita ; auctore E. T. Steudel. (Nomina si 

 nescio, periit cognitio rerum.) Ed. 2, ex nova elahoraia et aucta. 

 Stuttgard and Tubingen, (Cotta,) two vols. imp. 8vo. 1840-1841. — 

 The plan of this elaborate index to phanerogamic botany is nearly the 

 same with the first edition ; but the work is of coui-se very much en- 

 larged. The first volume, (of eight hundred and fifty-two pages, pub- 

 lished in seven fasciculi,) extends from A to K inclusive. We have 

 received the second volume down to the letter R, and ere this the 

 remainder has probably been published. This is a work of immense 

 labor, and great utility ; but the library of the author appeai-s not to 

 be well supplied with the recent works of English and American 

 authors. 



