Inouma Yokoussai appears to have been a famous author on botany in Japan. This particular work, we are told by Tanaka Yosiwo - who gives us here a second edition, issued in 1867 - was for a long time the leading work on Botany by the amateur botanists of Japan. To the great regret of botanists, the sudden death of the learned Yokoussai, stopped a further edition of the work. This new edition gives the Latin names, the Japanese names, with the English pronunciations. We have but the first volume; but Mr. Tanako Yosiwo says there were to be twenty volumes devoted to herbaceous plants, six to trees, 6 completing volumes are given to grasses, sedges, and vascular Crypto gams, but after the publication of twenty volumes the illustrious man succumbed to age, and finished the manuscript without the plates, in six volumes. These six volumes are now (1867) to be published. The work is on the old sexual system of Linnaeus; This volumes commences with Monandria, forty-two plates. It has a portrait of the author.

We are indebted to Mr. A. Blanc, of Philadelphia, for this copy.