94 Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Sfc, 



Appendix to the First Twenty-three Volumes of EdiuarcWs Botanical Register ; 



consisting of a complete Alphabetical and Systematical Index of Names, Syno- 



nymes, and Matter, adjusted to the present State of Systematical Botany ; 



together with a Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With 



nine coloured Plates, containing eighteen coloured Figures of Plants, aiid ivith 

 four Woodcuts. By John Lindley, Ph. D., F.R.S. and L.S., Professor 



of Botany in University College, London, &C.&C. 8vo, pp. 38. London, 



1839, 



This work is most interesting on account of its letterpress, and the very 

 beautiful coloured plates by which it is illustrated ; and, as containing an Index 

 to the whole of the Botanical Register, it will be found of the greatest value 

 to the possessors of that work, and indeed to botanists generally. We have 

 only therefore to repeat the strong recoraimendations which we gave of it in 

 our preceding volume. 



A Flora of North America ; containing abridged Descriptions of all the known in- 

 digenous and naturalised Plants growing 7ioj-th of Mexico ; arranged according 

 to the Natural St/stem. By John Torrey and Asa Gray. Parts I. and IL 

 8vo,pp. 360. New York, 1838. 



This work is to consist of three closely printed 8vo volumes of about 350 

 pages each. The first volume will comprise the exogenous polypetalous plants, 

 and of it two parts have already appeared. Judging from these parts, and the 

 high reputation of the authors, there is every reason to believe that the work 

 will be worthy of the present state of scientific and practical botany in Ame- 

 rica. In the two parts before us, we are happy to observe a disposition to 

 simplify and combine, rather than to multiply species and varieties. The re- 

 ductions which have taken place in the genera Fitis, Ampelopsis, and espe- 

 cially iihus, are in our opinion extremely judicious. Those in Fitis, we think, 

 might even haVe been carried farther. After this Flora is completed, the next 

 grand step of the Americans will be to collect all the plants of their country 

 into one garden, and there cultivate and study them ; but this cannot be ex- 

 pected to be done soon in a new country, when it has not yet been done in 

 Europe. In the meantime the botanists of every country will hail the appear- 

 ance of this new Flora of North America with satisfaction, and anxiously desire 

 its completion. 



Otia Hispanica, seu Delectus Plantarum rariorum aut nondum rite notarum 

 per Hispanias sponte nascentium. Auctore Philippe Barker Webb. Par- 

 tus I. " A Selection of the rarer or imperfectly known Plants indigenous 

 to Spain. By Philip Barker Webb." 1839. Fol. pp. 8 ; five folio plates, 

 besides an ornamental title. Paris, Brockhouse ; London, Coxhead. 



The plates are of i/olcus caespitosus Boiss., Avtem^sia granatensis Boiss., 

 Cjtisus tribracteolatus Webb, Adenocarpus Boissien' Webb, and Salsola ge- 

 nistoides Poir. A page of letterpress is devoted to the description of each 

 species ; and, in p. 6, 7, 8., there is a revision of the Chenopodiacese of Spain. 

 Adenocarpus Boissim being found between 4000 ft. and 3000 ft. above the 

 level of the sea, along with Picea Pinsdpo, will, in all probability, prove as 

 hardy as that species in British gardens. 



BayldorHs Art of valuing Rents and Tillages, and the Tenants Right on entering 

 and quitting Farms, explained by several Specimens of Valuations, and Re- 

 marks on the Cidlivation pursued on Soils in different Situations. Adapted 

 to the Use of Landlords, Land- Agents, Appraisers, Farmers, and Tenants. 

 Fifth edition, rewritten and enlarged. By John Donaldson. 8vo. Lon- 

 don, 1840. 



Bayldon's Rents and Tillages have been many years before the public, and the 

 work may now be said to be rewritten by one of the best practical agriculturists 

 in the country. Mr Donaldson is a native of the South of Scotland, and has 



I 



