880 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



M. HuET pu Pavilion's Plants of Sicily^ etc. 

 M. Huet du Pavilion has informed us of his and his brother's return 



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from their excursions during the year 1856, in Sicily, Calabria, and the 

 Abruzzos, bringing collections with which they are well satisfied. These 

 will be distributed among the subscribers as soon as they are properly 

 aiTanged and named. 



They also wish the public to be informed that they have still at their 

 disposal collections of from 300 to 400 species from their Sicilian jour- 

 neys, undertaken in 1855. The price of these and of the present year's 

 collections, are 25 francs the century to non-subscribers. 



The address of M. Huet du Pavilion is " Eue Verdaine, n. 366, 

 Geneva." 



To the Editor of tJte * Journal of Botany,^ 



Conceiving that in Natural History, as in many other things, it is 

 never too late to retract an error, however long it may have been per- 

 sisted in, I think it only fair towards Mr. Neisler, that I should beg 

 leave to recall In your Journal the remarks on the subject of Aracliis 

 and Stylosantlies which I made in your 7th vol., pages 177 to 179. 

 Notwithstanding the care with which I had previously examined the 

 flowers of these plants, I now find that, in Stylosanthes at least, I was 

 misled by the remarkable changes which take place in the base of the 

 style immediately after fecundation ; and although there are some points 

 which I cannot yet clearly comprehend, I readily admit that my former 

 views were erroneous, ^ 



George Bentham. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Hooker, Dk. Joseph Dalton : Flora of Tasmania; being the 



TJdrd Series of the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage. Parts I.-IH- 

 4to. London, 1856. 



We call attention to this valuable work, not for the purpose of offer- 

 ing any extended remarks or criticisms upon it, but mainly to announce 



