510 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



central parts of Mexico. By the will of Mr. Stephen T. 01- 

 ney, of Providence, the well-known collector, a large sum of 

 money was left to be spent in providing instruction in bota- 

 ny in the State of Rhode Island, under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Gray and Mr. W. N. Canby. The Court has, howev- 

 er, set aside the will on the ground of insanity ; and, as it is, 

 Brown University, of Providence, one of the legatees under 

 a previous will, will receive a certain sum to be spent for 

 botanical purposes. 



GENERAL. 



Phanerogams. 



The classic "Prodromus" ofDe Candolle, which was brought 

 formally to a close with the dicotyledons, has been, in a 

 sense, revived under the title of "Monographia3 Phaneroga- 

 marum," of which one volume has appeared under the direc- 

 tion of MM. Alphonse and Casimir De Candolle. The vol- 

 ume contains a monograph of the Smilacece, by A. De Can- 

 dolle; one on the Restiacece, by Dr. Masters; and a revision 

 of the JleliacecB^hj C. De Candolle. The "Flora of British 

 India," by Sir J. D. Hooker, has advanced as far as Part V., 

 being the second part of the second volume. The Hosacece 

 are elaborated by the editor, the Leguminosw by J. G. Ba- 

 ker, the orders from Saxifrar/acece to Haloragece by C. B. 

 Clarke, the Rhizophorem by Rev. G. Henslow, and the Myr- 

 tacece by J. F. Duthie. The " Flora Australiensis " ends with 

 the seventh volume, by George Bentham. The "Flora of 

 Mauritius and the Seychelles," by J. G. Baker, and the third 

 volume of the "Flora of Tropical Africa," by Professor Oliver, 

 bear testimony to the great activity of the botanists at Kew, 

 who, under the lead of Sir J. D. Hooker, have undertaken to 

 describe the plants of the British dependencies. The plants 

 collected by Dr. Hooker in his journey to Morocco have been 

 described by the Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 

 which contains a number of articles, of which we may specify 

 Spicilegia Flora} Sinensis, a record of hitherto unrecorded 

 Chinese plants, by II. F. Ilance ; three papers, by J. G. Baker, 

 on Two New Genera of Amaryllidaceee from Cape Colony, 

 New Compositai from Monte Video, and a Classification of 

 the Species of Jlippcastrum ; the Dipterocarpece of New 

 Guinea, by Professor Thiselton Dyer; Notes on JRubi, by C. 



