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GreviUea for September contains a lengthy and interesting article 

 by Mr. Charles B. Plowright, on ' Mimicry in Fungi;" ' New British 

 Lichens/ by Rev, J. M, Crombie ; ' Observations on Parmelia oli- 

 vacea and its British Allies/ by Rev. J. M. ^rombie ; and ' New 

 Zealand Desmidiaceae/ by William Archer. 



We acknowledge the receipt of the Nineteenth Annual Report of 

 the Schlesischen Tausch-Vereins^ from Mr. Adolph Toepffer, Bran- 

 denburg a. d. Havel, Prussia. 



Plants of Northwestern Australia, — We are indebted to Baron F. 

 von Mueller for a copy of his notice of the plants collected by the 

 Messrs. Forest and Carey in the little-known district about Nickol 

 Bay and King's Sound. Without going into the subject of the bear- 

 ing of the collections on the knowledge of the distribution of Aus- 

 tralian plants in particular, we think our readers will be more inte- 

 rested in seeing what familiar genera are represented in these lists. 

 The author has a suspicion that Phaseoltis vulgaris may have str yed 

 from cultivated grounds (there is a scanty overland travel with 

 flocks); perhaps traffic may account for some others. ^ 



NympJiaea, i species; Lepidium 3, Z. ruderale, L., among them; 

 Cleome, 2; Capparis spinosa, L.; Poly gala, i ; Drosera, 2; Claytonia, 



1 ; Sida, 6 ; Abutilon, 4 ; Hibiscus, 4 ; //. Goldsworthii, F. v. M., 

 *' a highly ornamental shrub;" Waltheria Americana,!.., and W, 

 Indica, L.; Erodiiun, i ; ' Strychnos Nux-votnica, L.; Euphorbia, 3 ; 

 Salsola Kali^l^r, A triplex, 2 ; Polygonum lapathifolium, L.; CeJas- 

 truSy I ; Cassia^ 3 ; Crotalaria 2 ; Phaseolus vulgaris, L.; Indigo/era, 

 3 ; Tephrosia, x ; Galactia, i ; Rhyncosia, i ; Ammania, i ; Olden- 

 landia, i ; Pluchea, i ; Aster, i ; Flaveria, i ; Qfiaphalium, i ; Lo- 

 belia, I ; Ipomoea, 5 ; Convolvulus, i ; Evolvulus. i ; Samolus, i ; 

 Hcliotr opium, 8, H. curassavicum, L.,one of them ; Justicia, i ; Mini- 

 ulus, 2 ; Solanum, 3 ; Comnielyna, 2 ; Potainogeton, i ; Fimbristylis^ 



2 ; Fuirena, 2 \ Rhyncospora, i ; Scirpus litoralis, Sch., S. maritimus, 

 L., and S. supinus, L.; Cladiwm, 2 ; Cyperus, 5 ; Sporobolus, i ; 

 Eragrostis 3 ; Panicum, 3 ; Aristida, i ; Setaria viridis, Beauv., S. 

 veriicillata, Beauv., and *S'. ^/^?//^^, Beauv.; Andropogon, ^', Erian- 

 thus, I ; Phragmites, i ; Acrostichum aureum, the only fern. Oryza 

 sativa was found by the author in 1856, near the West Australian 

 boundaries. 



Macrozamia Moorei is a new Zamia from the mountains of 

 Queensland, described by Baron F. von Mueller in the Victoria 

 Pliarm, Jour,, March, 1881, A stem four feet high and five and a 

 half in circumference has been sent to Kew, 



Catalogue of the Phaenogainous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants 

 (?/ il//V/^/Va/?, indigenous, naturalized and adventive. 8vo, pp. 10; 

 By Charles F. Wheeler and Erwin F. Smith. Hubbardston. Mich.- - 

 This useful, recently-published catalogue contains the completestli ,t 

 that has as yet been given of the plants of Michigrm. The numb r 

 of species enumerated is 1,634, but it is expected that these figu»*es 

 will be considerably increased after certain unexplored portions ol 

 the State have been visited. The work is very neatly printed an' is 

 accompanied by a colored map of the State, and a preface givin'^ 

 account of its botanical features ' 



