78 Scientific Intelligence. 
of the Barbary States (of Lunisia and Morocco as well as Algeria), 
to which Dr. Cosson has devoted so many years of labor, is now 
getting forward. The first half of the first volume, issued i 
1881, with elaborate maps, is devoted to History and Geo ae 
Under the first head is a full account of all the botanists who 
have collected in the Barbary States, or have written upon their 
botany,—beginning with Tra escant, in 1620, and, among the 
rest, giving a very interesting account of the Berber Ibrahim, 
and of the Rabbi NV ardochee, who have ee helped in the 
knowledge of the botany of Morocco, collecting where no Euro- 
pean could roan oe the head of he gage is a full 
gazetteer of the names of places and stati a geographical 
ae ography, an ogi sketch of the Gres ‘the cartography, 
eee fee Flore Atlantica, m the same author, Fasc. 
a, with 25 plates, in imp. 4to, a appeared last autumn. The plates 
are capital bodega, from ‘drawings by Cusin. They illustrate 
new Ranunculacee, Papaveracee and Cruciferw, and are accom- 
panied by 32 pages of letter-press of the same size. With all this 
in progress, the indefatigable author is again in the field of oes 
ration in Algeria. 
5. Systematic Census of Australian Plants, with Githoo ae 
Literary, and baa Ml ca nnotations ; by Baron FERDINAND 
yor Jy . Government Botanist for the Colony of Vic- 
asculare es. Melbourne, 1882 152, 4to.— 
place of publication, eeunecal distribution in Australia; and 
with much fuller references » the The Bains. for the genera than 
ume, page, and rag reat pains are also taken to trace psi 
names to their original. hen such names have come dow 
from the herbalists or from the ancients, they are cited aoa: 
* Clematis, Linné, gen. pl. 163 (1737) from VEcluse (1576).” 
one, Tou rt, inst. scl. herb. 275, t. 147 (1700), “from 
Hippocrates, Theophrastos and Dicneoriies? Useful emer 4 
certainly, me would say in a good degree wasted upon 
catalogue of this kind. And why “ Linné,” after a fashion of the 
French zoologists? Linn. or Linnaeus is surely to be preferred. 
t seems to us that more is lost than is gained by the intercala- 
tion of the monochlamydeous orders among the Polypetale; but 
whatever our theoretical opinion, considering that the Flora ” Aus- 
agers and the new Genera Plantarum are just completed upon 
the ordinary model, we should have spared the Australian stu- 
e deat the trouble which the present work is likely to give him in 
_ this regard. On the same egrounie we would have held Chori- 
