448 Scientific Intelligence. 
equal his well known Botany of the Voyage of the Herald; and it can 
not fail to be interesting and important. 
A Synopsis Plantarum Vitiensium, or List of the Fijian Plants at pres- 
ent known, has just been issued by Dr. Seemann, corrected up to date. 
We note that he has overlooked Mr. Sullivant’s folio, of the Musci of 
Wilkes’ Expedition, in which fifteen mosses not in his list are enumerated 
or described from these islands, and six of them are figured. The Lichenes 
by Mr. Tuckerman, the Alge by Prof. Harvey and the late Prof. Bailey, 
and the few Fungi, by Messrs. Curtis and Berkeley, also published, but 
sparingly diffused, may also add something to the list. A. G 
8. New Edition of Gray’s Manual of the Botany of the Northern 
United States—We copy the Advertisement to the revised edition, 1863. 
—*“ The additions and alterations of the Revised Edition of this work, now 
issued, are mainly the following 
“], The addition of an entirely new part, entitled Garpen Botany, AN In- 
TRopUCTION To a Know.epce or tae Common CuitivaTeD Pants: 
; xxix-Ixxxix. By this, the common exotics, no less than the wild plants, 
are made available for botanical classes, which will be a great convenience in 
many cases ost of these cultivated plants are everywhere eer er 
generally at hand for botanical illustration; and it is desirable that they = ” 
be scientifically known and rightly named. And there is no great di wis 
in studying them, if double flowers, and those which are otherwise in am a 
strous or unnatural condition, be avoided, at least by beginners. ‘Jt is att 
ously absurd and highly inconvenient to mix in the cultivated with beac 
ants in such a work as this. But a separate account of the common ex! are 
annexed and subsidiary to the Botany of the Northern United States, espec! f “ 
in School Edition, will doubtless be popular and useful. Directions 
¥; Pp. 
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ents, has been altogether revised, much simplified, adapted to eC = hanger 
_ “3. Numerous corrections in particulars have been made throughout te 
body of the work, whenever the required alterations could well be xi ing 
upon the stereotype plates. Many others, suggested by acute a do te ged 
correspondents, or by my own observation, are necessarily deferred un 
work can be 
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