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probably on account of the number of articles which it con- 

 tains from both our Magazines, we willingly notice it, to say 

 that we do not know a cheaper or more entertaining work. 

 There is about as much matter in one of these twopenny 

 numbers as there is in three of the Penny Magazi7ies, and the 

 woodcuts, though not nearly so large as in the latter work, 

 are yet equally Vy'ell done, and sufficiently explanatory. On 

 the whole, like the Arcana of ScieJice, it is a book well 

 adapted for being presented to gardeners by their employers. 

 This latter we have before sufficiently commended ; and need 

 only add that the present volume is not inferior to any of its 

 predecessors. 



Nees von EsenhecJc, 21i. Fr. Lud. Phil, et Med. Dr. in Uni- 

 versitate Fredericia Wilhelmia Rhenana Professor: Genera 

 Plantarum Florae Germanicae Iconibus et Descriptionibus 

 illustrata. Fasciculus I. 8vo, 20 plates and 43 pages of 

 letterpress. Bonn on the Rhine, 1833. 45. 



This work is wholly in elucidation of systematic botany. 

 It is written throughout in Latin, and the amount of the 

 remarks with which the author prefaces his first number (fasci- 

 culus) of the work is this: — He deems the accurate determi- 

 nation and knowledge of the characters of genera to be the 

 very foundation of systematic botany, and he desires and 

 intends to illustrate by descriptions and by figures the cha- 

 racters of the genera indigenous to Germany, that they may 

 become easily and accurately known to tyroes. He states 

 that he has not prosecuted the dissections to an extreme 

 length (although, we think, quite far enough for the end pro- 

 posed), that the price of his work might not be so increased, 

 as in this case it needs must have been, as to place it beyond 

 the reach of those for whose benefit he designs it. The 

 author has determined to delineate and describe every cha- 

 racter he notices from Nature herself; a resolution that can- 

 not be too much commended, but which entails on him 

 numerous difficulties. He remarks, however, that, notwith- 

 standing this, he shall, if blessed with continued health, 

 proceed cheerfully in his task, if the sale of the work shall 

 prove adequate to the necessity of the case. The preface is 

 dated " Bonn on the Rhine, March 1. 1833." 



We now notice the work itself, in which some one species of 

 each of the genera illustrated is chosen as a suitable example 

 of the genus to which it belongs, and then all the parts of 

 fructification of that species are exhibited in a plate of figui'es, 

 and explained in the text by descriptions relative to them : to 

 these descriptions are prefixed the prescriptive characters of 



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