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Art. II. Gardening and Indigenous Botany. 

 It was our intention in this number to have commenced a 

 regular analysis of the different works enumerated in our 

 former article of this title ; with the addition of Dr. Greville's 

 work, before inadvertently omitted. But we were then in 

 hopes that our Hprtus Britannicus would have been pub- 

 lished before this time. This not being the case, the delay 

 affords us the opportunity of including in the Hortus all 

 the species in the hitherto published numbers of the periodical 

 works alluded to, and therefore, any farther notice of them 

 at present is unnecessary. We have only to introduce to 

 our readers the work of Dr. Greville, and some remarks on 

 the Botanical Register and Botanical Magazine. 



1. The Scottish Cryptogamic Flora. By Robert K. Greville, 

 LL.D. &c. Maclachlan and Stewart, Edinb. ; and Baldwin, 

 Cradock, and Joy, Lond. 8vo. 



It has been already stated, that one of the objects of the 

 Gardener's Magazine is to form a continued record of all 

 that is new or interesting in the periodical botanical litera- 

 ture of this country ; and to render such a record a kind of 

 perpetual supplement to the work now in preparation by 

 the Conductor of this Magazine, under the title of the En- 

 cyclopaedia of Plants, and an abstract of it under that of 

 Hortus Biitannicus. As these works will not only contain 

 all the cultivated plants which have been from time to time in- 

 troduced into our gardens, but will also comprehend the whole 

 extent of the British Flora, including the lowest tribes of 

 cryptogamic vegetation, it is impossible to omit a reference 

 to the above truly admirable work of Dr. Greville upon the 

 cryptogamous plants of Scotland; a work which may be 

 honestly designated as so excellent, that nothing can be 

 found to compete with it in the whole range of indigenous 

 botany, except the new series of the Flora Londinensis; 

 whether we consider the importance of its critical discussions, 

 the accuracy of the drawings, the minuteness of the analyses, 

 or the unusual care which is evident in the publishing de- 

 partment. After expressing this opinion, we are sure the 

 work will need no further recommendation with the public. 



2. Botanical Register and Botanical Magazine. 

 The following remarks have been sent us by a Corre- 

 spondent. 



" To those who bind up botanical periodical works in the 

 order in which they are published, it matters not, if two 

 pages of text are given on the same leaf, as it offers no in- 

 convenience beyond that of throwing one of the plates to 

 the right hand instead of the left ; but those who prefer the 



