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ican forms of this great order in an able manner. Of the many new 
species and varieties described in this supplement, the greater part are 
from the Brazilian collection of Riedel, belonging to the Imperial Bo- 
tanic Garden of St. Petersburg, and furnished to Dr. Berg by Dr. Re- 
five species of Lecythis and the famous Bertholletia excelsa furnish 
amygdaloid seeds of great richness and pleasantness (Brazil-nuts, &c.). 
Recent extrabrazilan genera are briefly noted. Luma (Bot. U.S. Expl. 
‘xped.) is altogether overlooked, and in strictness may claim restora- 
tion, when the genera come to be revised and considerably reduced, as 
they probably will be. The three parts of fasc. 18, composing the Myr- 
fographia Brasiliensis compose an entire volume, of 655 pages, with 
many plates. 
zwacee, Gleicheniacee, and Hymenophyllee, by Dr. Sturm, of Nurem- 
berg, with ten plates. One of these isa fine illustration of the rare and 
Species, viz. O. cinnamomea and Botrychium Virgunicum, occur on the 
i ae hand in Brazil, on the other in the eee. The ieee a 
¢ Hymenophyllee are nature-printed, by the Vienna process. 
does better for the fronds—so delicate in this tribe—than for the fructi- 
Cation, 
Fase. 24, of 215 pages, with 56 plates, contains the first part of Mr. 
Brazilian Legume t 
Papilionacece except the Dalbergiew and the Sophoree. A double plate, 
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