Botany and Zoology. 445 
4, Flora of Canada.—Flore seen: ou Descriptions de toutes les 
Plantes des Foréts, Champs, Jardins et Haut du Canada, &c.—Par 
PAbbé Provaxcut, uré de Pukped Gitebes: Joseph Darveau, 
1862. 2 vols, 8vo. pp. 842.—It is pleasant to find that Botany is attract- 
ing so much attention in Lower Canada as to call into existence a Cana- 
dian Fiora in the French language; and it is much to the credit of the 
Abbé Provancher, for zeal and enterprize, that he should have produced 
such a work as this, in so good a form and so neatly printed. It is of 
course substantially a compilation; and the author is evidently a neo- 
phyte, of limited acquaintance with the plants around him; but he makes 
a fair beginning, in a work which may for the present ides well serve 
the educational end in view. The critical Flora of Canada and the other 
Provinces is yet to be written, and will be of a different order 
The wood cuts, “over 400 in number,” which illustrate the orden: and 
which here appear in such novel guise with their French environment, 
are every one taken from Gray’s Botanical Text Book, eoaag five of the 
Ferns from the Manual,—a preference which speaks e for the good 
taste of the Abbé than does the omission to mention the source. 
A. G. 
5. The Tendrils of Virginia Creeper terminating in flat expansions or 
di. sks, by means of which this climber readily ascends smooth trunks and 
walls, appear to have attracted Mr. Des Moulin’s attention, at Bordeaux, as 
a great curiosity. They are described at length fe bim m in the Transactions 
& Gray, Flor or VA om 245 beta! eek and thes venerable Dr. 
Distiogeo 8 Flora Geir 2d Ved. p- 158 (1837). Proba rte there is still 
earlier mention of it; as the fact has been familiar to us fro 
ese disks are figured i in "First Lessons in Botany, p. 38. We may add 
that on the same “plant may often be seen these disk-bearing tendrils and 
others which act in the ordinary manner. Although we have never see 
6. Vites Devenié teabionle a Duranp, de (P Académie bes “Sei- 
ences Naturelles de Philadelphie, etc. Memoire précédé d’une Introduc- 
tion par M. Ca. Des Movtins, ete.—In response to demands from the 
French Society for Acelimatisation and from Mr. inc Moulins — the 
part of the naturalists and vine-growers of Bordeaux, the excellent Mr. 
Durand of Philadelphia, long with other practical information commu- 
nicated a condensed but very careful monograph of t American 
species of Vitis. This monograph,—a most laudable attempt to illustrate 
an veep “tape group of species,—is published in the Actes de la 
Société Linnéene de Bordeauz, vol. xxiv, issued at the close of the last 
year, venti ainplifie in bulk by the garrulous introduction, intereala- 
tions and notes of its French editor. Seven pages of this introduction 
are devoted mainly to a criticism of the two words by which the present 
Am. Jour. Sc1.—Snconp Series, Vou. XXXV, No. 105.—Mar, 1868. 
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