Domestic Notices : — England. 9 1 



lated for being taken out and bound up by themselves ; other- 

 wise, some might consider them rather an incumbrance in a work 

 which, when once bound up, will be referred to principally on 

 account of its plates. 



In the Monthly Chronicle of the Botanical Register for 

 January, besides short descriptions of seven new plants, which 

 will be found included in the " Floricultural Notices" of our 

 present Number, there are reviews of three books, viz, : End- 

 licher's New Theory of Vegetable Fertilisation, a pamphlet pub- 

 lished in Vienna in 1838; Torrey and Gray's Flora of North 

 America, vol. i. part i. ; and of Dr. Perrine on Tropical Plants, 

 from Report, No. 564?., of the 25th Congress of the House of 

 Representatives, pamphlet, pp. 99. These reviews contain 

 some very interesting reading, and cannot fail to add to the cir- 

 culation of the Botanical Register. Indeed, we know, of our 

 own knowledge, that they have done so. 



The Guide, or Introduction to Botany, of which one leaf is 

 given with every number of the Botanist, and of which the 51st 

 page appeared on January 1st, 1839, promises to be one of the 

 most comprehensive introductions to every department of bota- 

 nical knowledge that ever has been attempted in this country. 

 It is illustrated with numerous very neatly executed woodcuts, 

 most of them self-explained, exclusively of the text, which is cal- 

 culated to save the superficial reader a good deal of trouble. 

 The Dictionary, a leaf of which is given at the end of every 

 number of the large edition of the Botanist, and also at the end 

 of the small edition, will be as complete, in its way, as the Guide. 

 No general Dictionary of Botanical Terms, we believe, exists, 

 either in the English or Latin language, that is at all complete. 

 Professor Henslow's Dictionary is intended to supply this de- 

 ficiency, and promises well to do so. In it, Latin and English 

 terms are very properly arranged in one alphabet, for they are 

 now so mixed up in botanical descriptions, that it is difficult to 

 separate them ; but the Latin terms are distinguished by being 

 in italics. The whole is illustrated with numerous woodcuts. 

 The botanical descriptions of the Botanist were, it is understood, 

 during the progress of the first volume, and part of the second, 

 prepared by Dr. Robert Dickson, who, it is said, has been suc- 

 ceeded in this department by Mr. Bentham, the Secretary to the 

 Horticultural Society, whose descriptions bear the signature of 

 G. B. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



The Hurricane of Jan. 7. uprooted, or otherwise destroyed, 3283 trees in 

 the Earl of Derby's park, at Knowlesley, near Liverpool. — /. H. S. Man- 



