Botany and Zoology. 271 
makes the circumference about 78 English feet, but intimates that 
he was not able to measure it exactly. ited it, a year 
ago, “it wasstill in excellent health, its immense crown covered 
wi 
although completely decayed in the interior, sustained vigorously 
the spreading mass of fleshy branches and sw ord-like fo He 
charges the destruction of this famous historical mematnent to the 
was, it is said, as hollow and about as large in the year 1402 as in 
recent sea and the hollow had even then been used immemori- 
4. Geological and Natural History Survey of North Carolina; 
Part IT. Botany, containing a pee a of the Indigenous and 
Naturalized Plants of the State; by Rev. M.A. Curtis, D.D., &e. 
Raleigh, 1867. pp. 158, '8vo. —An Aaaiatey je sonal ‘cata- 
e. Its greatest interest is in the Cryptogamic part, which occu- 
pies ipoeiree more than half of the volume. The Flowering 
wont ae are 1873, the Flowerless “ins of which 2392 are 
order to which Mr. Curtis has apne Hp 
greater hn of his scientific ee: “Acknowledgment 
Sullivant for assistance in arranging the list of "Maa ai 
Hepatice, and to Prof. vecouee in that of the Tiche nes. 
arrangement does not in all pee represent 
later views, ‘The ca talogue undoubtedly “much pci most ex- 
from the central position of No rth Carolina in the line we 3 ae At- 
lantic States, and from its including the most developed ates of 
the Alleghanies, it is very important to our botanists in the illustra- 
tion of geographical distribution and stn species, 
As regards the Fungi, that State ma sup to contain 
nearly all the apeteh 5 of the Atlantic ‘wri t is much to be 
wished that Dr. Curtis would now seriously devote himself to the 
elaboration of a Manual of the pets of the United States. Other- 
wise a vast amount of knowledge of these obscure plants pet be 
one of these days lost to the world, and a great want long re 
unsupplied. A. G 
5. Genera Plantarum, by Benruam and Hooxer.—The third 
part, completing the first volume of this most important work, and 
the Polypetalous series, was published late last autumn, and_should 
have been announced halon We expected, however, to have pre- 
an extended notice of the volume, which we ‘have as yet 
ek to do. The e work aera excellently a on eau 
ar will at once be in t ientific botanists. 
‘ustrations of ty case Carex; by Francis Boowr, Me 
Ses IV, Tab. 412-600. 1867.—This posthumous volume, issued 
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