428 Scientific Intelligence. 
Burmese Piora, ete.; by 8. Kurz.—These are the titles of some 
se 
ames. ‘“ Petal occurs as a name for several different plants in 
Jelinck’s journal. I fear it is meant for ‘bétél’ (‘just so, ‘right 
so’), a very usual saat of a Malay to a question regarding the 
pronunciation of a word.” A. 
10. Arboretum aolana .... par Atpo. LavaLiee. This 
handsome octavo volume, as i ‘te full title ductares is an enumera- 
tion of the trees and shrubs cultivated at Segrez (Seine and Oise), 
h 
while the author was forming the Arboretum which now adorns 
ames, and 
through traditional errors or oversights of the nurserymen, som 
times thr rough less innocent practices of “ quelques hortionitours 
which our author is agin rained to denounce. In consequence he 
was obliged to stud the acanclalatins and cabin the sy- 
nonymy for himself ieanelieuk, with the best aid to be had from 
the Jardin des Plantes and elsewhere. Hence the raison @étre of 
this volume, and its value to all who have pistes eR to 
eee: or to. care for G. 
1. Systema Iridacearum ; by J. G. Baxer.—This bogiits in 
ee 90th number of the Journal of the Linnean Society, and is 
continued in the following. When concluded, we may give an 
peri and timely, and the Jridacee particularly need revision, 
n almost untouched by all later ee ae except by 
Dr. "Platt, whose synopsis in the Linnea co Sanat 
and whose views are not always to be adopt 
12. Native “Artichokes.”—Upon sae et the article upon n Heli 
anthus tuberosus, contributed to this Journal (in May last) by 
Messrs. Trumbull and Gray, the bios os herpes botanist and 
explorer, Mr. John Macom, wrote a 
“It is a fact that a species of Helionthes week I took to be #. 
