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half a dozen trenchant reviews, each of which would have enough to criti- 
cise without alluding to the objections used in the other five. 
"We come now to the plates. The first four are entirely copied, they 
appertain to foreign species, and are not taken from the best sources. They 
with many copied figures are pretended to have been drawn by E. Emmons 
Jr. Plates 1, 3 and 13 are the best in the book, and we would not complain 
had they all been as well done. But with all the apparent care bestowed on 
plate 1, the antenna (a) is like nothing in nature ; the joints which should 
set square on each other, are made to resemble a barber's pole with its wind- 
ing band. Plate 2, figs. 3, 6, 7, are not recognizable. Observe the forked 
spine on the left leg of plate 5, fig. 10. Plate 10, fig. 6, although the 
leaves are varied, the execution defective, and the figure reversed, we have 
detected as identical with one in Ratzeburg, vol. 1, plate 20, fig. 3, x. It 
is not mentioned that the figure is enlarged, probably because the indication 
" vergross." was not understood. 
But we have already occupied too much space with this volume. We 
leave it to its demerits, having entered our protest against the sending forth 
of such an abortion as a specimen of American science. We sincerely 
hope that when another work of the kind is published by authority of any 
State or of our general government, the task will be allotted to a more com- 
petent laborer. 
NOTE ON DARLINGTONIA CALIFORNICA. 
By the kindness of a friend, our attention has been called to the following 
very curious observations by Mr. A. DeCandolle on Darlingtonia californica; 
they are found in the Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, Archives des 
Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 1854 (November), p. 255. 
" The chief characters (distinguishing Darlingtonia), according to Mr. 
Torrey, are : that the stamina are less numerous than in Sarracenia, and 
that in place of the disc with recurved margin, so remarkable in the typical 
genus of the family, are observed five stigmata of the ordinary form. 
In this last respect, the three genera (composing the family) are very 
distinct : Sarracenia having an extraordinary foliaceous disc of the form of 
an umbrella, Darlingtonia having five stigmata, and Heliamphora having a 
truncate style, without stigmatic lobes. 
The figure published by Mr. Torrey exhibits another character, not 
