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to botanists or new to the Flora of this country, and many more which 
are very rare in herbaria;—a full account of which is nearly ready for 
publication. The —— not being — copious to supply 
the demand, were at once taken up. It is to be hoped that Dr. Pany 
may be encouraged to ono and — his explorations among those 
alpine solitudes during the ensuing summer, The plant-hunter must 
here penetrate far beyond the gold-hunter, si endure greater privations. 
But it is — from Dr. Parry’s gleanings in a field barely reached by 
Dr. James, in Long’s Expedition, that the botanical riches of this Pete: 
are by on means exhausted. 
9. Aroidee by Dr. Schott.—It is well known to botanists that "Dr 
tions of the genera and of many species, which must find a haiti: in all 
considerable botanical — and, on the other a Synopsis sia 
mus which are within the reach of ‘the means of almost pitt ; cultivator 
of the science, eadda list of these publications now before us, viZ— 
roidee auctore H. Scnorr. Fasc. 1-6 (Vienna, 1853-1857): A 
sumptuous Prbmyertsde in imperial folio, 30 plates, partly colored, with 
20 pages of letter-pre: 
Icones Aroidearum edite H.Scnorr. 1857. Forty plates, imp. folio, 
even more magnificently executed, with a few leaves of letter-press. 
—— Aroidearum complectens Enumerationem Systematicam Gene- 
m et Specierum hujus Ordinis, Auctore H. Scuorr. I. 1856. pp- 140, 
nn oa area — rene eit es. 
Genera A a H.Scnorr. 1858.[-1860.] Imperial 
4to, 98 platen filled with analytical details, admirably executed, and 9 90 
leaves of letter-press. This illustrates ies all the genera, and needs 
only an Index, é&e., which we suppose will be given with a supplementary 
fasciculus, 
Prodromus Systematis Aroidearum: auctore H. G. Scnort, 1860, pp. 
602, 8vo. ‘Conti the characters of 108 genera and nearly 1 1000 
species. The monograph cf this order by Kunth in his Enumeratio 
LF ctpahapes vol. 3 (issued twenty years ago) contains 40 genera and 256 
spec Dr. Schott’s labors be oy this order, persevered in for wae years, 
fruit and seeds of Peltandra and Syabliedioe? being abknoli to a 
although both would surely flourish in the climate of Vienna wither 
t of e subtribe tropous or half-anatropous, he Pert 
that pendulous and “ mi e fundo spectante, 
which would make it orthotropous. ere he has mistaken the chalaza 
pos 24 ovule was first correctly described by Dr. oF 
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