NOTICES OF BOOKS. 181 
Notices of Sooks, 
Flora Vitiensis : a Description of the Plants of the Viti or ea 
Islands, with an Account of their History, Uses, and Prope 
By Brrrnory Sremann, Ph.D., &., &. With 100 slates by 
Watrer Frren, F.L. 8. London : Reeve and Co. 1865—73. 
(Pp. xxxiv., 454.) 
x., published early in the present year, we have at length 
In part 
the’ completion of this work, which, as the brief biography comprised 
in it fitly states, ‘will be a lasting monument to the eminent scien- 
i i author.” D 
visited dilssalp mop ‘ile of the Herald. His notes upon these early, 
and some of them Pia as. so collections add much to the import- 
ance of the present volume other element in this Flora claims 
m and commenda ., his accounts of the useful plants 
described, and of native usages in connection them—such, for 
example, as the articles on Solanu thropophagorum of horri 
memory, Piper pee a a or —— and of the Fiji and Hawaiian 
Sandal-woods. kind of writing, 
as his more ct works atten Nor are his critical ibe te 
and notes of botanical affinities to be undervalued. If never of the 
very highest keane they are acute, often ingenious, nas "fanciful 
or vague, and, like all his botanical knowledge, truly remarkable 
under his circumstances and tr g. 
Se t may be said that he was over-ambitious in undertaking this Flora 
n such an expensive plan, 
Islands. But Seemann, “thinking that w 
1uch sab pe under great difficulties, dangers, and privations, in a 
nt t ib , was worth being ma ide 
ill fidbg abise in i in, a sbably cut ieee a valuable life. 
For, overw a ein the sie the demands it made upon his 
time and pur. re far greater than he had calculated upon, and at 
