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herbarium. While retaining the order, he . remarked that one 
isomerous genus makes a tra nsition to Celastracee. 
Meliacee, by Casimir laetende lle, who ia recently Paper 
a monograph of the whole order in the series which is 
tinue and supplement the Prodromus. This order is ane ee 
largely developed in Brazil. 
Hederacee, by EK. Marchal, Professor of Botany at Brussels. The 
Brazilian sPees belong to four genera, which are well illustrated. 
Lemnacee, by Professor Hegelmaier of Tiibingen, the mono- 
grapher of Oa order. e three genera, Wolffia, Lemna, and 
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Spirodela are well illustrated in a single plate, and the anatomy — 
and pore ney are fully expounded. 
eu, by dae ssor Fosier, late of Munich, now translated to 
bia aes e about ninety Brazilian species out of 738 known 
to the paca er, stray arranges them under ara sub-orders, 
among the sub-orders are Pistiacew and Lemnacew. The whole 
is evidently worked out conscientiously, and is recaniery illus- 
trated by fifty-one plates, which abound in analyses. One 
them is a photograph of magnified stem-section 
Rafflesiacee, by Count Solms-Laubach, Peckoone at Strassburg. 
In Brazil are two known species of A odanthes ee our of Piloe — 
tyles. ae sig plate of illustrations is excelle 
of 
cee, by Professor Caspary 0 si a are tape 3 
to 
and all ‘llnetrate d, Three folio plates are given 
One of the ten tropical American species of Vymp viz: Ve 
ampla, well marked by having the carpels di gree the 
186 88 and cohering only dorsally, reaches Texas. 
curbitacee. are elaborated, with much detail, by A. Cogn 
aux, a ie cika botanist. Introductions included, there are twenty: 
nine Brazilian genera, and one hundred a nd eleven species, 
Hoo 
Genera Plantarum. Eichler is followed in an ee order next 
1 Jussict 
to Campanulacer, a reversion to the ideas 
and Adanson. Cucurbita Pepo is thought to be of Asiatic origin; 
along with WVicotiand 
rustica, which is certainly an old-world species. chin ocystis 18 
still mixed up with eee ied besser aa genns—an 
with two Brazilian plants which, we ven 
geners of the true Be 
See plates. 
Her 
: Flora Fossilis Aretica. Tome v. 1878. _phis new 
volume, ‘ike most of its predecessors, is composed of separate 
hinocystis, The a is haw ilustrated by 
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