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Botany and Zoology. — 291 
1863, pp. 508, 8vo.—This is the first volume of another of those Floras 
of British Colonies, published under the authority of the Home Govern- 
ment, and in tlie present instance, we believe, mainly at the expense of 
~¢onnexion with Mr. Bentham and Dr. Hooker. The Flora of Hongkong, 
by Mr. Bentham, was the first of the series. This related to a very sm 
the cotyledons are inserted,—a view which obviously suggests itself to the 
morphologist, and which, as we suppose, ma t by it 
position, its growth, and ee structure. We know of nothing which is 
Dante Outver, F.LS., Professor of Botany, University College, L 
—An important paper, read to the Linnean Society in January last and 
recently printed in its Journal, No. 26, Prof. Oliver repudiates Mr. 
Miers’ attempt to establish Viscum and its near a : 
wishes to unite Santalacee with the Loranthacee, and would even follow 
natural group, the great divisions of which are kept apart mainly, it 
Would seem, 
