714 Smith and Soxverbi/'s E?iglish Botany. 



" Notice to the members of the Unio Itineraria, with a list 

 of the plants collected in 1831," The seventh and last paper, 

 which is not completed, is one of much and popular interest. 

 It is entitled " A Sketch of the Province of Emerina, in the 

 Island of Madagascar, and of the Huwa, its inhabitants ; 

 written during a year's residence by the botanists, Charles 

 Theodore Hilsenberg of Erfurth, and Wenceslaus Bojer of 

 Prague in Bohemia : with an Appendix on the Tanghina 

 poison Tanghinia veneniflua." Of this plant, a double plate, 

 coloured, is given, and which seems identical with Cerbera 

 Tanghin of the Botanical Magazine, although this identity is 

 not declared. Besides the figures we have indicated, there 

 is one of Polypodium melanopum, and one of Cryptogramma 

 retrofracta, to which we see no description. 



JSfees von Esenbeck : Genera et Species ^4sterearum. 



This is reported to be a work which will greatly avail those 

 engaged in the study of the species of the genus A'stev, and 

 of the allied genera : see Professor Lindley's opinion of it in 

 a quotation presented, p. 723. 



Smith, Sir J. E., M.D.&c, and Sowerby, James, F.L.S. &c. : 

 English Botany; or, coloured Figures of British Plants, 

 with their essential Characters, Synonymes, and Places of 

 Growth. The Second Edition, arranged according to the 

 Linnsean Method, with the Descriptions shortened, and 

 occasional Remarks added. London. In 8vo numbers, 

 Is. each ; monthly, or oftener if desired. 



We are glad to see a cheap edition of this excellent and far- 

 famed work supplied to the public on terms that will render 

 it obtainable by many whose circumstances would never war- 

 rant their purchasing the first edition. That edition, which 

 sells for 55l., extends to 36 volumes, and includes figures 

 and descriptions of 2592 native plants, 1087 of which, ex- 

 clusive of 55 ferns, are cryptogamic, or, as far as our naked 

 eyes are concerned, flowerless plants. From this second 

 edition all such are to be omitted; and even the figures 

 of flowering plants, " which represent such nearly allied 

 species as may be readily distinguished by the descriptions 

 from those figured." By this omission of some species, 

 " it is supposed that about 1200 plates will contain the flower- 

 ing plants, which may be bound in six volumes; and, as most 

 of them are ready, no delay is likely to occur." As, however, 

 some purchasers may pi*efer to possess a figure of every plant 

 described in this edition, Mr. Sowerby proposes to supply 



