Literary Notices. 611 



"hydatid, or fluke ov flounder, generated in the liver of 

 sheep," three figures ; and the " Flaltica nemorum, or juniper 

 of the woods, or turnip fly," of which there are three figures. 



Art. III. lAterary Notices. 



Ladies' Botcmy, a popular Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany^ after the model of Rousseau's Letters on 

 Botany.^ by Dr. Lindley, is advertised " to be published in 

 November next, in one volume, 8vo, illustrated by numerous 

 plates." 



The third part, comprising the Vandecs, of the letterpress 

 of Dr. Lindley's GeJiera and Species of Orchideous Plants, is 

 announced as beuig ready ; also part the second of litho- 

 graphic illustrations, from the sketches of Francis Bauer, Esq. 

 F.R.S. L.S. &C.J of Dr. Lindley's Genera and Species of Or- 

 chideous Plants, containing ten drawings on stone. This work 

 is to be completed in four parts, in imperial quarto, price [we 

 presume, each part] SOs. coloured, and 155, plain." 



Lahiatartim Genera et Species, or a description of the genera 

 and species of the plants of the order Labiatse; with their 

 general history, cliaracter, affinities, and geographical distri- 

 bution ; by George Bentham, Esq. F.L.S. Parts ii. and iii., 

 price 5s. each^ are in a state of forwardness. 



Of Sowerby's Small Edition of the Lnglidi Botany, contain- 

 ing figures and descriptions of the plants of Great Britain, 

 arranged according to the Linnaean method, a number is 

 now published " every alternate Saturday." (See Vol. VIII. 

 p. 714. for an exhibition of the plan of the work.) Twenty- 

 seven numbers, at \s. ea<:h, are now published. 



Of Baxter's British Flowering Plants, containing a figure 

 and a description of one species in every genus of British 

 flowering plants, fourteen numbers are published. (See 

 Vol. VIII. p. 715. for the details of the plan of the work.) 

 A second edition of the letterpress of the earlier numbers is 

 begun : the descriptions are much improved and augmented. 



The first number, price Is. 6d., of The Bordered Edition of 

 Maund's Botanic Garden, was published in August last. The 

 four subjects which occupy one plate in the usual edition are 

 here separated ; and each subject is surrounded by an orna- 

 mental border, in the ornaments of which the rose, the sham- 

 rock, and the thistle occur ; and, with its border, occupies a 

 4to page. The whole work is to be republished in this form. 



Of the Irish Gardener's a?id Farmer's Magazine, the first 



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