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pods, enumerates the species before published, and adds descrip- 
tions of new species from other parts of America which are com- 
plementary to the Mexican fauna, and which may serve to illus- 
trate the subject of geographical distribution. An extended 
catalogue of American Myriapods is added to the work. 
. Bentuam’s Notes on the Classification, History, and Geo- 
graphical Distribution of Composite ; an elaborate and most in- 
teresting memoir. ‘This commentary of the order Composite, as 
by a diagram. A. Gs 
17. A. S. OzrsrEp’s System der Pilze, Lichenen und Algen. A 
translation from the Danish into German, by A. Grisesacn and 
J. Reinke; illustrated with 93 wood-cuts. 194 8vo. Leipzig; 
Engelmann. 1873.—An excellent compendious text-book of the 
dividual students desirous to find their way to a good genera 
knowledge of the structure and classification of Fungi, Lichenes, 
and Alge. e wood-cuts are very striking and tell their story 
thing of the sort in this country, in which there is an increasing 
it appears to be admirably adapted to its end. a 
9. A Botanical Index to all the Medicinal Plants,de. ; by ALLAN 
truly u w 
har ly find elsewhere so full a collection of popular names. There 
is first a list of officinal plants with the popular names appended, 
the more proper one stabicie ; then one of popular names with 
reference to the botanical name. In one instance a name 18 
wrongly given, evidently through a reliance on very old authority, 
