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66 Scientific Intelligence. 
8. Flora Australiensis; by GrorcE BENTHAM, ag Hog by 
Baron a yon Mérier. Vol. VI. Thymele 0 Dios- 
coridee. , pp. 475. 1873.—The fifth volume fies in 
1870. a ‘Ges Mr. Bentham has been able to bring out this 
new volume, besides re-elaborating the whole order Comp osite 
for the Genera Plantaru m, not to speak of other things. * That 
the work is not slighted may be inferred from a remark incident- 
ally made under the Orchidew—the largest order in this volume, 
and seabor ern tedious and difficult to study in dried specimens 
-—that, “In this case, as in the rest of the present work, I have 
made it a rule to work out the descriptions of genera as ’ well as 
species, in the first instance from the specimens themselves, wher- 
ever they admitted of examination, and afterward to check them 
by those of the great authorities on the order. 
The more noteworthy points which have attracted attention in 
turning over the pages are the following: Phaleria of Jack is an 
older name for Drymispermum of Remwardt. <A bet yr has 
been discovered in Australia; yet it poe: be a form of J. 
lamphora. Trema of Loureiro replaces Sponia, the fees a of 
the former tates ater only earlier Mat as definite as Commerson’s 
of the latter. The carpological — * Conifere are given 
with an alias, although the gymnospermous view is adopted, “as 
most conformable to the actual sigipearsnite, oe without, however, 
intending to decide the question, which is still she subject of keen 
controversy.” The Hemodoree are reduced to a tribe of Ae 
9. Flora Brasiliensis, = 62, issued in June last, of 180 pete 
and 50 plates, commer nove e Composite, and contains the tribe 
face ; by Mr. res of Kew. This tribe is largely repre- 
‘ nig ye 
as belonging to Bra A. 
Musée an de Leide, par W. F. R. Surtnear. Vol. L 
livr. 1-3. 4to, The second titles are [dustration des Espéces et 
Formes du Genres @ Algues ; Gioiopeltes. 1871-2: with twenty- 
two plates. illustration des Algues du Japon, with four plates. 
—With this elegant “e the letter-press and illustrations in the 
best. style, Prof. Suringar "begins anew the botanical pabueen = 
of the researches idiot in the Royal Herbarium at Leyden, w 
had pee een aoe ted by the death of Professor —— The 
sent from this country, still remains unpublished. A, G. 
11. De Candolle’s Prodromus, pars decima septima, — 
Oct. 16, 1873, has come to hand. The contents are, in the firs 
ace, certain small outlying orders, or so ome of the ™m ee 
that have to do duty as orders, which 0 nm various accounts have 
been left = of the Prodromus as it went on, viz: Sarraceniacee, 
Phy w, Cardiopteridex, Salvadoracee, adeianesens Bati- 
