182 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
visits to Tropical America, where at nel he fell a victim to the 
climate. Hence the delay of the later parts of i work, and espe- 
cially of the posthumous "ot fasciculus, whieh is only now issued. 
is part lon 
for the last time. His preface bears the date of October, 1869, and 
the interesting historical notice and introduction appear to have been 
as early written. 
The Cryptogamic orders were assigned to collaborators, who, it 
would appear, were not very much in arrear; ss the earlier sheets 
of this part of the volume bear the same date as the preface, and 
even the last are dated June, 1871. The real nd of publication of 
all after page 324, notwithstanding, is in 1873. 
e Filices are carefully elaborated by Mr. Carruthers. We note 
with interest that Brackenridge’s genus Diclidopteris is maintaincd ; 
his Diellia falls into Lindsea, The Musci rand Hepatice are contributed 
by Mr. Mitten, who has varied out to the full-Dr. Seemann’s plan of 
taking account of all known Polynesian species. Indeed his presenta- 
tion of the extra-Fijian Mosses, &c., is almost as ample as that of the 
Flora in hand. The Lichens and the Fungi were very sparingly 
collected, and are of small account in the work. 
The Additions and Corrections represent, we may presume, some of 
the author’s last botanical work, in which a new genus, Zrimenia, is 
appropriately dedicated to his friend, the editor of this Journal. 
= nfortuna sooth it is founded on male flowers only. Another, Thacom- 
) i in the common 
After all ha that has bee done both by Dr. Rictiike, and before him 
by the dition under Wilkes, it remains true that the 
of Viti Levu and its numerous peaks and mountain ridges still offer 
a rich field for botanical discovery.” The obstacles to exploration, 
which at first were insuperable, are fast diminishing. rat 
length enters the field, and reaps the harvest, will no doubt ae 
his great obligations to the lamented sah of the * Flora Vitiensi 
A. Gray 
A cing ~ arom ge - Hiern, M.A. (From the bg 
ons of the Cambridge osophical Socie i: i. 
Cambridge, 1873, (Pp. 274, tab 11. gS 
author for this very complete monograph. The natural order treated 
of is one of the least attractive, being neither distinguiahed for beauty 
of flowers or foliage, nor for utility. It isa great gain when suc 
obscure grou ps are taken in hand and faithfully worked up by com- 
petent persons, since in all large herbaria and collections there will be 
