lY. Botany. 



1. Flora Brasiliemis.—P2iTt 50 of the great work of :\Iai;ih>. 

 continued by Eichler, was issued at the close of the hist year. It 

 is occupied by Mr. Bentham's continuation of the Lt'j>nniiu,S'' 

 (viz. Swartziew and Ccesalpinece), in 254 pages of letter-i)ress, fully 

 illustrated by &6 plates. The Swartziece form now only tlic ulti- 

 mate tribe of PapilionacecB. Among the figures are to he foun<l 

 one of Guilandina Bonducella and of a related species, now re- 

 duced to Ccesalpinia, of Parkinsonia aculeata, and of Cassia 

 ChamcBcrista. There are 189 Brazilian species of Cassia— no 

 small part of the genus, the much desired monograph of which, 

 prepared two years ago by Mr. Bentham, is probably now m 



2. Popular Names of British Plants.— Dr. Prior has brought 

 out a second edition (Williams & Norgate, 1870) of this very in- 

 teresting volume, with many additions or emendations. It is a 

 treasury of curious lore, philological, antiquarian, and botanical, 

 by one thoroughly fitted on every side for the handling of these 

 topics. An alphabetical Hst of the systematic names of those 

 British plants which have popular appellations is annexed, and 

 under which these are enumerated. A notice of the first edition 

 was published in this Journal, for May, 1864. One can hardly 

 resist the temptation to make extracts from the more ciu-ious 

 articles. . ^' ^• 



3. Les Plmrs de Pleim Terre, etc., par Vilmori>-Axdkieux 

 (Paris, 1870), which in the midst of terrible times has passed to a 

 third edition, now rivals in bulk the portly Bon Jardimer, filhng 

 - it does 1563 duodecimo pages, iUustrated by 1300 wood en- 



vings. These, moreover, are separately issued m f ^f^^.'fl 

 Jurs, and of this an edition m English is pubhshed, forming a 

 handsome and very useful volume. The miniature representations 

 sometimes of a blossom or flowering branch, commonly of the 

 whole plant, exhibiting its port, are wonderMly effective, a. g. 



4. I Synopsis of all thi known Lilies, by Mr._ Baker, one of 

 the assistant botanists at Kew, and author of an important paper 

 on ZiliacecB which was recently noticed in this Journal, is m course 

 of publication in the Gardeners' Chronicle, London, ihis stana- 

 ard horticultural periodical, we may remark kee^s up ^^'Ij^s sci- 

 entific character, and has many interesting botanical articles and 

 memoranda. . -rrr 7j ^ A\ hr, 



5. On the Phrms and Bistrilmiion o^r the World oj tfio ^a- 

 trachium section of Manunmlus; by W. P. Hiern, xUA Ke- 

 printed and revised from the Journal of Botany, 1871. vv im xwo 

 plate8.-An unusually thorough paper, maintaining t^e > lew that 

 these plants, "considering the intricate network of connecting 

 links that seem to break down specific characters m several di- 



gravings 

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