Botany. 289 
Ill, BOTANY, 
1. Martius, Flora Brasiliensis—Since our |ast notice, two more issues 
of this great work have come to hand: viz., fascicles 25 and 26, contain- 
ing the Santalacee (two species o f Thesium) and Myristicacee (26 s 
of Myristica) by Alph. DeCandolle, and the more numerous A ace a, 
which are thoroughly elaborated, with decided talent, by DeCandolle’s 
str 
copiously illustrated, and with the leaves of many species i Learn by 
“eh elaboration of these orders appea o be very 
degre Von Martius upon the t aia Sciam 
wi ARSTEN, Tom. r tascivalee primus. eee Dawe 1858, “pps 
2, tab. 1-20, col. i fol.—This ee ot mmencement of a 
magnificent work soot t reac ached us, with an edvertiocibeat by the suc- 
dated Feb. 1859, announcing that the ms 
, will extend to ten such fascicul 
= Prussian thalers; the uncolored copies, fifteen thalers. 
— patronage will not be wanting. The plates are very tine, and 
th satisfactory analyses; and are lems each by few pages of 
Rosenbergi o bea pretty us 
exti pendulifiora, t. 14, wih long + figalate lobes to the corolla :nd 
ly long filaments, is in Fendler’s Venezuelian co lection, ee rr 
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, (Botany), ‘No. 
20 (0) finishes Hooker and Thom ompson’s pre cursory Acco! account of the 
dian Ci @, and contains five other papers; four of them es 
: rucifer 
short yee and of — local i nterest. Dr. Welwitseh’s letter on the 
* Century, always retained the two woody 
the time of germination, and besides these it never puts t forth any aes 
Ax. Jour Scr.—Secoxp Senres, Vor. XXXII, No. 95.—Srrt., 1861. 
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