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suppose, he includes them in that species. This will be more apparent 
should the discovery of the transitions, which he leads us to expect, here- 
after cause the four provisional species which attend Q. Robur to be 
merged in that species. It may rightly be replied that this conclusion 
would be arrived at from the likeness step by step in the series of forms; 
but the cause of the likeness here is obvious. And this brings in our 
‘motif philosophique.’ 
ot to insist that the likeness is after all the variable, not the con- 
daa and are more correctly distinguished by people in general, as 18 
shown by vernacular names, But we have no space left in which to 
present some evidence to the contrary. : 
Here we must abruptly close our long exposition of a paper which, 
from the scientific position, ability, and impartiality of its author, 1s likely 
at this time to produce a marked impression. , We would also direct 
attention to an earlier article in the same important periodical eile 
onfig- 
of, and commentary on, the introductory part of Heer fe 
Helvetie, as reédited and translated into French by Gaudin, with addi- 
tions yy the author. Se weak 
3, Flora Capensis; by Dr. Harvey and Dr. Sonper; vol. ii, 1861-62. 
The second volume of this excellent work extends from the Legumnos® 
to the Loramthacee inclusive, that is, it concludes the Polypetalous orders. 
Almost half the volume is devoted to the Leguminosa@, elaborated by 
Dr. Harvey, and much the greater part of the other half is occupied by 
the Bruniacee, by Dr. Sonder (who assigns no definite character to 
separate them from Hamamelidew), the Crassulacew, by Dr. Harvey, the 
fesembryacew by Dr. Sonder (Mesembryanthemum counting 300 ae 
including 7 not sufficiently known), and the Umbellifere, by Dr. Sonder. 
Montinia is transfer Dr. Harvey from the Onagracee to the Sazi- 
agacee. The close affinity of the latter order to Rosacee is recogn 
by placing it and its immediate allies next after Rosacee in the wir 
« See thin Jornal, vol. xxix, [2], March, 1860, . 165, for the enunciation of this 
obvious principle. seams : 
