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REVIEWS. 
Trautvetter, Ruprecht,^ Hooker, Gray, Bunge, and other writers/ 
upon the Russian and kindred Floras, are quoted throughout. The 
locality, time of flowering, and name of the collectors follow these. 
One grave fault forces itself upon us as we cut the pages of this 
book, affecting however the printer rather than the author. The 
notes, as we have observed, are very extended, often occupying 
several successive pages save a line or two at the top of each. It 
would have been better had they been collected and separately pag'ed 
at the end of each published part, or if not separated in this way they 
should at any rate have been printed in a type more obviously dif¬ 
ferent from that of the enumeration, and a line should have crossed 
each page where the notes begin. It is true there is a difference in 
the type and there is a slender black line, but the type is only slightly 
different and the line not half an inch in length. We are always 
impatient of petty inconveniences of this kind which a little atten¬ 
tion might have spared us. It is regrettable the more in this case 
seeing the book is likely to extend to several volumes. While on this 
subject we would suggest that the names of the Natural Orders head¬ 
ing their respective lists of species might have been in more con¬ 
spicuous characters, and a running title of each Order or genus 
might have been used with advantage. Much space, moreover, ought 
to have been saved by a better arrangement of the matter. 
The genera, sub genera, &c., of which synopses of the species are 
given, are the following: in most cases Russian species only are 
included ; in some, only E. Siberian. 
Thalictrum (published separately), Pulsatilla, Adonis §Conso- 
ligo, Trollius , Aconitum, Draba § Chrysodraba, Viola , Parnassia , 
Poly gala, Silene §Atocion and §Otites, Silena graminifolia {con¬ 
spectus varietatum '), Lychnis §Gasterolychnis, L. ape tala {consp. 
* varietatum ), Alsineae {consp. generum ), Alsine , Arenaria, Stellaria, 
Gerastium , C. alpinum {consp. varietatum lusuumque). 
We proceed to notice a few of the genera, selecting such as are 
of interest to British botanists. 
Thalictrum. Of this peculiarly difficult genus nineteen species 
are included in the separately published 4 Uebersicht.’ Of these 
Dr. Regel admits that probably several can hardly be main¬ 
tained as species, and that they are retained for the present 
in deference to generally accepted views regarding them. The 
primary test in the analysis of the species is derived from the fruit. 
They are arranged under the sections, A. carpella stipite manifesto 
saffulta; B. carpella stipite brevi suffulta; and C. carpella sessilia. 
* A just tribute is recorded in the Introduction to the merit of a work of im¬ 
portance, but a single volume of which has as yet reached us, the ‘ Flora Ingrica’ 
of Dr. Ruprecht. We wholly concur in Dr. Regel’s opinion, that this excellent 
botanist errs in judgment in not accepting the priority of the Linnean nomenclature, 
a mistake which we conceive must materially and very properly interfere with the 
usefulness of his book. 
