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Garden Botany. The Mosses and Liverworts, also, which were contribu- 
ted to the previous editions by Mr. Sullivant, are now omitted, but the 
hope is expressed that these orders, together with the Lichenes, by Prof, 
'o the fourteen plates at the end of the volume, illustrating the genera 
fi riginal draw- 
| the help of these accurately drawn figures the student will be able to 
' identify easily the genus of any native or introduced plant belonging to 
ese somewhat difficult orders, 
While the general plan of the work is otherwise unchanged, a com- 
Parison of this volume with its predecessor shows that the learned au- 
thor has taken new views of several natural orders, and that the generic 
and specific descriptions generally have been studied anew, and most 
faithfully compared with the plants as they exist in nature. sniiecs 
Among the changes in the natural orders to be particularly noticed is 
the uniting of Welumbonew and Ca ce with Vymphaacea, This 
had already been done by Bentham & Hooker, and indeed we find We- 
lumbonee made a tribe of Nympheacee in DeCandolle’s Systema Vege- 
tabilium, Bu keep the name Velumbo as originally written by 
_ Adanson in 1763, and adopted by Geertner in 1788, a year before it was 
ged to Melumbium by Jussieu? It would then accord with Wegundo, 
vaced Flerkea also, in the whole arrangement following pretty closely 
om views of Bentham é& Hooker. 
alora y ted from Ona @, the points of difference bei 
aod wel marked: Lagemetin. ia. romigiiied epee 
e it was shown by Dr. A. W. Chapman that the anther of 
