3h6 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
revision, so that it cannot be made use of without reference to a very 
great number of works—many not al eadily accessible bus, 
retrograde step. Of forty-six Roses described, fifteen are considered 
quite new; but it is just now the fashion to create species in 
this genus. The Oriental ftubi, however, appear hitherto to have got 
off scot-free, for but ten are given. Here are fresh fields and pastures 
part rejected. Much labour and thought have evidently been devoted 
to this intricate family. Hedera poetarum, Bertol., and H. colehica, C. 
Koch, are both assigned specific rank, but Seemann’s investigations are 
not alluded to. Under Cornus by a misprint, both sections are 
t is 
Hooker’s fourth division, well distinguished from the typical 
Tanycrania by its yellow flowers and small herbaceous bracts, and for 
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it is impossible to withhold a protest against the Latinity of such 
phrase as “ species curiosa.”” Be Fe. 
