Botany and Zoology. 441 
trary to what would have been expected of the habitat of such a Fern, 
the district is ~— far from humid, as may be inferred from the rng 
of ~~ re 
doing Fighored and Oriaf Desteaprions of 8 ga Plants, velosted 
Jrom the Dublin University Her gern . . Harvey, M.D., 
E.R.S., &e., Prof, Bot. Univ. Dublin, &e. Dublin, at I, No.1, 1859.— 
The Nos. contain 25 plates each : the present one is accompanied by 16 
pages of letter-press, all in octavo. The work is designed to be a 
in quarterly parts (at 5 shillings sterling each), ‘four to a volume of 0 
hundred plates, with deseriptions. The author is pledged to finish the 
first volume, and intends to eat it throug five or six volum 
encouraged by the sale of the first. “the i ie tn is fe to “250 
copies, 150 of which are reserved for wlotie sale,” not doubt that 
Prof. Harvey’s moderate expectations in this respect yes $e satisfied. A 
few copies should be secured in this country,—for which Prof. Gray of 
Cambridge will receive subscriptions. The projits of the sale, if any, are 
to be devoted to the University herbarium, of which the anthor i is the . 
curator. The plates are very good for general habit and appearance, but 
the Phe es printer has not done full te we nasi author’s drawings 
on the stone. The analyses are doubtless very ¢ We venture to 
suggest, how mick that they do not always tell all iron could be desired, 
cle exam: 
ar re 
ovules in the Kraussia and Mitrastigma made known, nor is any charae- 
ter mentioned to distinguish the latter from Canthium, to which sits ae 
been referred. 
Grisebach’s Outlines of Systematic’ Botany, for Acadia om 
struction (Grundriss der Systematischen Botanik, &c.; von A Grise- 
BLOG) Géttingen, 1854, pp. 180, 8vo.—A convenient manual for the 
class-room, an nd well devised for that mn In the classification the 
merely tentative; and the most that ean be said of the best of them is, 
that it is less faulty — other A featuré in this little work which 
is origin nal, so far as we though something much like it has been 
devised by Dr. Pickaedse od el worthy of adoption, is the neat form- 
ula for expressing the numerical of the flower in an order as Sai 
&e., and also he degres of union: os consolidation. Thus; t type of 
Coryophy jllacece is ex 1 by the formula, 5, 5, 10, S: ihe sti 
ae meson of en ine ‘the aoe foral rans, ei the at 
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