Botany, dec. 311 



Gray's "Manual of the Botany of the Northern States"; and 

 the lithographed impressions were made in the prosecution of 

 that design. The extensive and beautiful collection of specimens 

 subsequently brought by Dr. Hooker from the East Indies, which 

 were liberally placed in my hands by that eminent man, impel- 

 led me to extend my plan ; and I have endeavored to illustrate 

 the genus at large." Most of the species here figured are accord- 

 ingly North American or East Indian. The ample list of North 

 American will be found to comprise a very large share of the 

 Oarices of Gray's Manual, as well as of species of higher northern, 

 more southern, and western regions. The figures of these fasci- 

 nating plants are very truthful. The main object of the work is 

 to give accurate representations of all the known Carices : — 



A List of the Orchidaceous Plants collected in the East of 

 Cuba, by Mr. C. Wright, with Characters of the New Species, 

 by Prof. Lindley, (from Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., May, 1838), 

 — It appears that of the eighty species of Orchids gathered by 

 Mr. "Wright in his recent visit to Cuba, twenty-one are novelties 

 (here characterised by Prof. Lindley), and several others have 

 scarcely been seen since the time of Swartz ; — showing " how rich 

 in new species of the Order is the vegetation of that little-known 

 island, and how much is still open to discovery by the diligent 

 traveller." : — 



Salices B or eali- Americanos : a Synopsis of North American 

 Willows. By N. J. Anderson, Professor of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Stockholm, Sweden. — In the March number of this 

 Journal (Silliman's) we stated that Professor Anderson had 

 undertaken to elaborate the Salicinew for DeCandolle's Pro- 

 dromus, and that materials in the form of complete speci- 

 mens of Willows were earnestly solicited from every part of 

 this country, in order that he might attain to something like the 

 same full acquaintance with our species which he possesses of the 

 European forms. We are happy to announce that Prof. Ander- 

 sen has already made a preliminary study of our Willows, from 

 such materials as he has been able thus far to examine ; and that 

 he has embodied the results in a memoir upon the subject, which 

 is just printed in the Proceedings of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Soiences, vol. iv., where it occupies thirty-two pages. 

 The introduction and the conclusion, embracing a critical compa- 

 rison of our Salices with those of Europe, are written by Professor 

 Anderson in the English language (which he uses with remark- 



