128 Scientific Intelligence. 
and Canada, By Atpuonso Woop, A.M., Principal of Female Academy, 
Brooklyn. New York, Barnes and Burr, &., 1861, pp. 832, large 12mo, 
—This is a second and enlarged edition of the Class-Book published in 
the year 1845, a book which has been widely used in Botanical instruc- 
tion, and which, so far as the merits of a work may be tested by the sales, 
must be allowed to have stood the criterion. It was natural that the 
author should wish to extend and improve it, and the publishers had 
hardly fair to apply to the former production, although in that, also, the 
author “distrusted every source of information except our own persona 
inspection,” and claimed more complete, scientific, and particular aequaint- 
ance with our Flora than would have been expected. Sixteen years more 
of botanical study, however, should largely substantiate all similar claims. 
The arrangement of the page is good, and so also the choice of letter for 
ured by clerical and typographical errors. These are annoying enough 
e know too 
So also of Simplocarpus, Arctostaphilos, thetipteroides, which again are 
matched by counterpart errors in Psylocarya (with a species rhyncospo- 
roides), psylostachya, Bryzopyrum, rhyzophilla, Peplys, distychum, dis- 
y nothing 
mechrista, Crotallaria, precox, speciocissima, Hriophila,—the latter 
leaved and was a hybrid of Greek and Latin (like leptoculmis, p. 146). 
It is not so surprising that he should fall into the mistake of writing the 
genus Polianthes of Linnzus, Polyanthes, and so give a derivation to 
match, although our author might have placed some confidence in Lin- 
