374 Bibliography. 



6. Kunze, Supplemente der Riedgrdser ( Carices) zu Schkuhr^s Mon- 

 o^raphie, ^c. — The first fasciculus (the only portion that has yet 

 appeared) of Prof Kunze's supplement, or continuation of Schkuhr's 

 well known work on Carex, comprises detailed descriptions and beau- 

 tiful figures of fifteen species of that large and difficult genus. The 

 specific characters are given in Latin ; the remainder of the text in 

 German. The figures are executed in the same style as those of 

 Schkuhr, but are not so much crowded. Four of our North American 

 species are here illustrated, viz. C. leiorhynca, Meyer ; C. Steudelii, 

 Kunth ; C. gracillima, Schwein. ; and C. Frankii^ Kunth. The last 

 is identical with the prior C. stenolepis, Torr. 



7. Hooker and ArnoWs Botany of Capt. Beechey''s Voyage ; part 

 10, 1841. (tab. 90-99.) — The tenth and last fasciculus of this work 

 concludes the account of a collection on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 

 and is terminated by a complete index. The ten plates it comprises 

 are nearly all devoted to Californian plants described in prior fasciculi ; 

 among which Pferostegia, a curious Polygonaceous genus, Anemopsis 

 Calif ornica of Nuttall, and LophocMcena of Nees, a singular grass, are 

 the most remarkable. 



8. Elemens de Teratologic Vegetate, ou Histoire abregee des 

 anomalies de V Orgajiisation dans les Vegetaux ; par A. Moquin- 

 Tandon. Paris, 1841, 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 403. (Monstra in animantibus 

 horremus, amamus inpomis, Ferrar., Hesperid. lib. iv. cap. xi.) — 

 This interesting treatise on vegetable monstrosities is very properly pre- 

 faced by a statement of what is meant by the normal structure of 

 plants, by vegetable individuality, and vegetable symmetry. The au- 

 thor proceeds to consider, first, those slighter deviations which are 

 called varieties ; and secondly, those more grave and mostly congen- 

 ital anomalies which bear the name of monsters. As to the latter the 

 author remarks, that nearly every monstrous or abnormal condition that 

 has been observed is to be met with as the normal state of other veg- 

 etables ; and that between a monstrous and a normal flower, the only 

 diflference often is, that the former is the occasional, the latter the habit- 

 ual state. " La motistruosite est done, en general, Vapplication inso- 

 lite, a un individu ou a un appareil, de la structure normale d^un autre 

 appareil ou d''un autre individu. Cest un organisation transposee, 

 c'est une hi cliangee de place. On Va dit avec raison, la monstruosite 

 ne se trouve pas en dehors de la nature, mais seulement en dehors de la 

 coutwne.^'' It is clear, therefore, that while abnormal states may 

 always be explained by the laws which regulate the normal structure, 

 monsters themselves, as the etymology of the name indicates, often 



