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eral closely representative ones ; such as Caulophyllum robustum, doubt- 
less the same as the Japan plant, which in fruit answers perfectly to our 
(. thalictroides, and I still suspect not distinct from it; and Maximovic- 
tia Chinensis, Rupr. (to 
um, Gray), a close counterpart of our Schizandra ; Acer tegmentosum, 
very nearly our A. Pennsylvanicum ; Hylomecon vernalis which seems 
typic genera or groups between Northeastern Asia and Northeastern 
America,—of which so extended a list can now be ven,—and very sug- 
gestive is it (at least where the species are identical or nearly so) of a 
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(26-50) are better printed and do more justice to Dr. Harvey’s facile pen- 
of the first part. Among the illustrations is a new a- 
if interest- 
; gami ;” an 
ing new Bixaceous genus (Rawsonia), with petaloid scales “ evidently ho- 
mologous with the crown of Passiflora, and with the inner stamens hy- 
Pogynous, the outer perigynous”; also a fine new Scuphularineous genus, 
Bowkeria—No. 3, just received, continues the work to plate 75. One o 
the plates illustrates a new genus of the Passion-flower family, wie onl 
d . 6. 
3. Hooker’s species Filicum, being Descriptions of all known Ferns, illus- 
of so northern a latitude. 
w. Mr.S 
ne . opru ip 
on the Piassaba Palm (Leopoldinia Piassaba) of the Rio Negro of the Am- 
