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able facility) ; the descriptive and critical matter is in Latin. To 

 render it accessible to all who take an interest in the subject, a 

 small separate edition has been printed, and is sold by Messrs. 

 B. "Westermann & Co., No. 290 Broadway, New York. On the 

 receipt by the Messrs. Westermann, of postage stamps to the 

 amount of 36 cents, a copy will be sent by mail, prepaid, to any 

 applicant : — 



Systematische Untersuckungen uber die Vegetation der Karai- 

 ben, in besondere der Insel Guadeloupe ; von A. Grisebach, 

 (from Trans. Roy. Sci. Gottingen, vol. xvii, 185*7), pp. 138, 4to. — 

 This sketch of the Flora of Guadaloupe is very interesting and 

 useful in itself, and of good promise for the Flora of the British 

 West Indies, upon which Prof. Grisebach is now engaged, and 

 which is so greatly needed : — 



Essai d'une Exposition Systematique de la Famille des Cha- 

 racees ; par feu J. Wallman, Traduit du Suedois ; par M. 

 le Dr. W. Nylander. Bordeaux, 1856, pp. 91, 8vo. — This 

 monograph of the Gharaceaz appeared in the Transactions of 

 the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm for 1852, pub- 

 lished in 1854, a year after the death of the author, who barely 

 lived to complete the manuscript. To render the monograph 

 more generally accessible, M. Durien de Maisonneuve engaged 

 Dr. Nylander, the lichenologist, a compatriot of the author, to 

 translate the memoir from Swedish into French, and caused it to 

 be reproduced in this form in the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society of Bordeaux, in the first volume of the third series, 1856, 

 -also publishing a small extra impression in a pamphlet form. The 

 author characterises no less than fifty species of Nitella, and sixty- 

 six of Chara : — 



• JElogio di Filippo Barker Webb, scritto da Filippo Parla- 

 tore. Ficenze, 1856, 4to., pp. 113. — The late Mr. "Webb, a cele- 

 brated English botanist long resident in Paris, bequeathed his vast 

 herbarium and excellent library to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 

 along with some funds for the care and augmentation of the col- 

 lection. The immediate charge of the collection was of course 

 entrusted to Prof. Parlatore, a near friend of the testator, and a 

 most zealous botanist. After coming into possession of this noble 

 bequest, upon the occasion of opening his course of lectures for 

 the year 1855, Professor Parlatore pronounced the eulogy here 

 published. It is illustrated by interesting explanatory notes, and 

 followed by a catalogue of the works and opuscula published by 



