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Verhandlungen der Jc. Jc. Ijandwirthschqfts-Gesellschaft in Wien, 

 S^c. Transactions of the Imperial and Royal Agricultural 

 Society of Vienna, &c. New Series, Vol, I. and Part I. of 

 Vol. II. 8vo. Vienna, 1833 and 1834. 

 The only article of interest in the work before us is one by 



Baron Jacquin on the starch of the cereal grasses. 



Allgemeine BoianiscJie Zeitung. The General Botanical Gazette. 



No. L 12mo. Ratisbon, Jan. 7. 1S34. 



A periodical of 16 pages, wholly occupied with an article on the 

 flora of the East Indies, by Dr. Martins of Munich. This view, 

 though short, is exceedingly comprehensive : its author seems t3 

 have referred to all the works extant on the subject ; and, at the 

 conclusion, he gives an enumeration of the species belonging to 

 each natural order. That of Leguminosae contains nearly double 

 the number of species (759) of any other order of flowering 

 plants. The order next numerous is Compositae (421); and, 

 after that, ^canthacese (297) ; then i^ubiacese (260), Cy^oxdcece 

 (234), OrchidecE (221), Labiatae (199), Ferbenaceae (166), Am- 

 pelideas (168), ^pocyneas (146), Malvaceae (158), iHyrtaceae 

 (157), Convolvulaceae (126), Scrophularineae (119), and Gra- 

 mineae (121). Of flowerless plants, the greatest number belong 

 to Filices (483) and ikfusci (112). The total number of flower- 

 less plants is only 689 ; while that of flowering plants is nearly 

 1000. Due honour is paid to Dr. Wallich, and to Mr. Royle. 



Art. VIII. Literary Notices. 



The Architectural Magazijie, vol* i., price 165. 6d.j was pub- 

 lished on the 1st of January last. 



The Arboretum Britannicum, No. i., with sixteen 8vo plates, 

 and sixteen pages of letterpress; No. ii., with eight plates, and 

 thirty-two pages of letterpress; and No. iii. with twelve plates, 

 and thirty-two pages of letterpress, were published on February 1 . : 

 and No. iv. with sixteen plates, and eight pages of letter- 

 press, will appear on April 1.; price 2s. 6d. each. The work 

 will be completed in twenty-four numbers, and will contain vip- 

 wards of 600 pages of letterpress, and above 300 8vo plates, 

 besides woodcuts ; forming two handsome volumes 8vo, viz., 

 one of letterpress, and one of plates. Price 3/. 



A Treatise on Botany, by, it is understood. Dr. Lindley, is in 

 course of publication by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful 

 Knowledge. Two numbers have been published, Nos. 179. and 

 181., Qd. each, in which " Structural Botany" is treated of; and 

 from which we learn that " Physiological Botany, Descriptive 

 Botany, and Systematic Botany," additional divisions of the sub- 

 ject, are to be treated of in succession. The work is likely to 



