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Gergo ; in Spanish, Gerigonza ; all corruptions of GrEecum : whence Merlet 

 infers that the Jargonelle was the Pi/rum tarentinum of Cato and Columella, 

 the Numididnum grce'cum of Pliny, and the Grce'cidum of Macrobius. If this 

 conjecture be well founded, the kind to which the name belongs will be one 

 of the most ancient in cultivation. To this country it was certainly brought 

 from France, of which there is abundant evidence. The Jargonelle of the 

 French is, however, not ours, but an inferior kind, green on one side, and 

 red on the other. They call ours the Grosse Cuisse Madame, distin- 

 guishing it from the common Cuisse Madame, which is our Windsor. How 

 this, or any other variety, became possessed of so singular an appellation, it 

 is difficult to say. Mayer tells a long story of its origin, which is not much 

 to the purpose ; and Manger relates an anecdote about Prince Eugene and 

 one of his officers, who did not know that Dameschenkel was a pear, which 

 is worth looking at." 



Hooker, William Jackson, LL.D. F.R.A. and L.S. &c. &c. : Flora Boreali- 

 Americana ; or, the Botany of the Northern Parts of British America : 

 compiled principally from the Plants collected in the late Northern Land 

 Expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. To 

 which are added (by permission of the Horticultural Society of London), 

 those of Mr. Douglas, from North-west America ; and of other Natural- 

 ists. London, 1829. Parti. To be completed in 12 4tofasc, each con- 

 taining 6 sh. and 20 pis. One guinea each. 



We are happy to see that the arrangement of this work is according to 

 the natural system. The generic and specific characters are in Latin, and 

 the remarks respecting habitation in English. The plates are outlines, ad- 

 mirably drawn and engraved. The plants figured in this part are as follows : 



Dicotyle'dones. Thalavuflbrce. Hk.anunciddcece. — Clematis Douglasw, a 

 beautiful species, with leaves as deeply divided as Pseonia tenuifolia; !Tha- 

 lictrum Cornuti ; Anemone deltoidea and Richardsoni ; i?anunculus cardio- 

 phyllus, affinis, Purshfi, fascicularis, and orthorhynchus ; Caltha leptosepala ; 

 Coptis ctspleniifolia ; A v chlys triphylla;] .Epimedium hexandrum; Cbrydalis 

 Scoulen ; Parrya macrocarpa ; Vesicaria didymocarpa ; Hutchins2'« caly- 

 cina ; Thysanocarpus curvipes. There is also a large and well-engraved 

 map. 



Henslow, the Rev. J". S., M.A., Professor of Botany in the University of 

 Cambridge : A Catalogue of British Plants, arranged according to the 

 Natural System, with the Synonymes of Decandolle, Smith, and Lindley. 

 Cambridge. Small 8vo. Is. 



This catalogue is intended chiefly for the vise of those students who 

 attend Professor Henslow's botanical lectures in the University of Cam- 

 bridge ; but it will be found a useful companion to the young gardener who 

 is studying the natural system and^ has few resources but British plants. At 

 the end a table is given, from which the following is an extract : — 



Total number of plants in Great Britain. 

 Orders. Genera. Species. Varieties. 

 t-,. ^ t , , { Indigenous - 



Dicotyledones ^ Nat ^ ralisecl 



,, ^ i/i ( Indigenous 



Monocotyledons ^ Nat » mlised 



Total (Phanerogamae) 



Part of Acotyledones 



The synonymes of Decandolle and Mr. Lindley form an exceedingly use- 

 ful part of this catalogue. 



G 3 



77 



378 



1099 



1207 



1 



17 



45 



47 



16 



105 



351 



371 







3 



6 







94 



503 



1501 



1625 



5 



60 



447 



499 



