almost all of them illustrated by excellent an 
Botany and Zoology. - ; 418 
4. Nytanprr: Synopsis Methodica Lichenum omnium hucusque cog- 
nitorum, erie Introductione Lingua Gallica tractata, Fasc. I, Pa- 
ris, 1858, imp. 8vo.—This is to be the standard systematic work upon 
Basten: The author, the Acharius of his day, after long investigating, 
with wonderful zeal and success, the Lichenes of his native Scandinavian 
regions, repaired to Paris and to Kew, where he has for several years 
and he has also been furnished with materials directly from this country. 
This first fasciculus of the synopsis, which is to e car the result of a 
Myriangeacet, _— opuscula, issued by the same author during the 
past, summer, a 
Enumeration “Générale des Lichens, avec [Indication sommaire de 
leur Distribution Geographique. (Extr. ar ace Soc. Imp. des Sci- 
ences Sendai de Cherbourg.) pp. 146 
sitio Synopticia Pyrenocarpeorum. (Bate Mem. Soc. Acad, de 
Maine et Loire.) pp. 88. 8vo. A. G 
5. Mimrs: Illustrations of South American Plants, Vol. Il. London, 
1849, 1857. 4to.—The letter-press consists of a series of articles con- 
tributed to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. A separate 
impression, in 4to form, is now issued, illustrated by 53 excellent plates. 
drawn by the accomplished author, and most of them lithographed by 
his own hand. This volume is mainly devoted to the order Solanaceae, 
_ or its immediate allies; to showing the in vatican of the line which had 
and the 
been drawn between the Solanaceae a 
an endeavor at clearer distinctions, through the ctubliebitaniia: “ an in- 
termediate order, the Atropacew. .The earlier sheets were issued some 
time previous to ‘the appearance of the late M. Dunal’s recension of the 
Solanacee in the 13th volume of De Candolle’s tan ee The latter 
upon it. The removal of the Salpiglossidee from the Scrophul 
chads Bentham had left them with much hesitation) suite renders it 
more possible to limit the latter order in this direction than it was be- 
fore. But the pro order, Atropacee, probably will hardly serve its 
A most useful part of this rie elated is the monograph of the 
enus Lycium, comprising (after on exclusions) 69 species, 
In this department, 
Mr. Miers particularly excels. His whole on as recorded in this and 
have thrown much light over Solanaceous eon 
the preceding volume, 
and will command the attention of their next m er. A. 
6. -book of the British Flora ; a a Description of the Fl 
Plants and indigenous to, or naturalized in, the British Isles : _ 
the use of SP cceat and teurs ; by GEORGE a F.LS. 
don: Lowell Reeve, 1858 ae ase, ecm 9 - peng of 
atic botanists,—of the soundest Judgment an 
—— otic botany,—has deemed it no unfit employ- 
