





REVIEWS. 605 
ical plates, is written in Latin, and treats of the Cordiacee, Asperifolie, 
Voshyriaceew, and Mayacew. Of greater popular interest your reader 
would no doubt find the same author’s ‘Observations on the Evolution 
of Heat in a Species of Aroid,” made during his stay in Brazil. The de- 
scription of the new Aroid (Phyllodendron Lundii) is illustrated by a 
plate. Professor Lange has worked up the Monotropes and Pyrolee, col- 
lected by Professors Liebmann and CErsted in Mexico and Central Amer- 
ica. The paper is written in Latin, and illustrated with two plates. Pro- 
fessor (Ersted has given an additional note to his former description of 
the Brazilian Tea-plant (Neea theifera), and described the dimorphous 
flower of Halesia tetraptera, whose minute male flowers have hitherto 
een unknown; both species are illustrated by woodcuts. I should be 
inclined to attach considerable importance to the same naturalist’s elabo- 
Pucania and Cystobalanus are removed from the true oaks, and referred 
to the chestnuts. A more detailed abstract of the new facts and views 
brought forward by Professor Œrsted (whose paper is illustrated by nu- 
-Liebmann, achevé et augmente d’un aperon sur la classification des Ché- 
nes en general par A. S. (Ersted”; large folio with many excellent plates; 
a work that without any recommendation of mine, W excite the high 
interest of American botanists. Besides the said paper of Mr. (Ersted 
la vie de Liebmann 
engraved plates, representing species of oaks from tropical America. 
Ta the second volume of the Journal of Botany, published by Dr. Hel: 
berg for the Botanical Society of Copenhagen, you will find several con- 
tributions to the Phanerogamic and Cryptogam 
Denmark. Rev. Mr. Lange has contributed a paper on the Mosses of 
rasitical Plants of Denmark. 
fascicle has appeared. e 
editor, Professor Lange, has also published his annual Index Semipum 0 
