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the author himself, in very handsome style, each part consisting 
of one leaf or page of letter-press and a plate, in quarto form. The ~ 
plate is printed in green color. The second fascicle has also a 
Dr. 
wood-cut in the letter-press. It is evident that Allen is mak- 
ing this a labor of love, regardless of expense. He announces 
that his work “ will be issued each month, and will include every 
species and variety known to American waters he author will 
be happy to send the work to botanists and receive in return the 
Characee of their collecting, to the number of fifty specimens of 
each variety.” Directions for collecting and preparing specimens 
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portion magnified, and a cross-section of a The general view 
ea 
of the plant is particularly go ood. The magnified portions hay 
certain aia apie and solidity, which will peaagrte be got rid of in 
future tri Dr. Allen should be, and we may be sure will be, 
soa ee carry on to paintlobon an waaerahenns which will 
ake an obscure and neglected branch of botany popular in this 
country, and which may incite to new discoveries. A. G. 
. Malesia ; Raccolta di Osservazionie Botaniche interno alle 
Piante Del? Archipelago ee e Papuano, da Oparpvo 
Brccart, Vol. I, fase. 1-3. 1877-78. 256 pp. tab. I-XV, 4to. 
on — me ae success tar oF the of New Guinea, 
e of 
contributions to systematic botany. It is not often that we can 
have such an interesting accession to Phenogamous Botany as is 
Beceari’s Corsia ornata, a small root-parasitic plant of New 
e 
6-phyllous perianth has five similar and lorate divisions, + a 
sixth much larger and dilated one which bears a nectary wi ee 
but this is the posterior one of the outer series. e an um 
has its full compliment of six wholly normal and similar anthertf- 
erous stamens, with the inner series of these the three carpels 
of the ovary normally alternate ; and the large placentz are car- 
ried inward on imperfect dissepimente, thence their lamelle are 
revolute toward the back of the 
rst fascicle is devoted oe Pullen, the second to these 
and to Toa cine, Menispermacee, Monimiacee, ete.; with new 
genera in all; the third has an excursus on sss = its 
rig sae and describes new Burmanniace 
On the Self, — of Plants ; _by ‘the Rev. Gz inti 
“dome MA F.LS., ete. A memoir in the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society of London, ser, 2, Bot. vol. i pp. 318-398, 
with a plate. Read Noy. 1, 1877. Issued 1879.— his paper is 
