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Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: i 



Bioletti, F. T., New Californian plants. (Erytbea. Vol. I. 1893. No. 3. p. 69.) 

 Davidson, Anstruther, Immigrant, plants in Los Angeles County, California. I. 



(1. c. p. 56—61.) 

 tireene, Edward L., Observations on the Compositae III. (1. c. p. 53—56.) 

 Howe, Marshall A.. A month on the shores of Monterey Bay. (1. c. p. 63 



—68.) 

 Jepson, Willis L., Studies in Californian Umbelliferae. II. (1. c. p. 62—63.) 

 Mneller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Descriptions of New Australian plants, 

 with occasional other annotations. [Continued.] (Extra print from the Victorian 

 Naturalist, February, 1893.) 

 Aristolochia Holtzei. 



Herbaceous, erect, dwarf, nearly glabrous ; leaves comparatively long, 

 almost sessile, laxe, linear, much narrowed towards the upper end ; flowers 

 axillary, solitary, mostly on a rather long st.dklet; basal portion of the 

 calyx obliquely ovate-globular, thence the tube slender, and about half 

 as long and wide as the broad linear upwards narrowed flat termination, 

 fruit almost globular, rather small, prominently filiform-streaked ; seeds 

 deltoid-cordate. 



Near Port Darwin ; N. Holtze. 



Closely allied to A. Tozetii, but all the leaves lobeless and sessile, the 

 pedicels elongated, the flat part of the corolla occupying a proportiona- 

 tely greater length, and the constricted portion more slender. 



A. Tozetii seems to be entirely an eastern species, A. Holtzei only a 

 north-western. 



Cymodocea zosterifolia. 



Of this plant several specimens with pistillate flowers were recently 

 received from J. Bracebridge Wilson Esq., M.A., F.L.S., to whom the 

 writer had recommended the search for floral organs dnring that gentle- 

 man's zealous algologic excursions. I now find the style of each of the 

 two fruitlets terminating in from 3 to 6 setulaceous rather long stigmas. 

 The female flowers had only once before been obtained, then in a fruit- 

 bearing state, and were thus described in the „Fragm. Phytogr. Austral." 

 ix, 196 (1875). The staminate flowers are as yet only known from 

 Gaudichaud's „Botanique" of Freycinet's „Voyage Autour du Monde," 

 340 t. 40 (l8'J6). That these minute organs have hitherto eluded Obser- 

 vation so much, is explaiued by their being concealed within the axils of 

 leaves, and clasped by the longitudinal-incurved petioles. In adopting 

 the above given specific name already in the first „Census of Austral. 

 Plauts" 121, ten years ago, as transferred from Agardh's Amphibolis 

 zosterifolia, and in discarding the specific designation antarctica, given by 

 Labillardiere to this oceanic monocotyledonous plant of our warm temperate 

 zone, it was desired, to discontinue the erroneous notion, conveyed by 

 the original name ; because we might just as well call any Jowlands plant 

 peculiar to the remotest part of South-Europe an arctic one. Cymodocea 

 zosterifolia does not grow further south than Tasmania, being there still 

 more than twenty degrees of latitude distant from the antarctic circle ; 

 iudeed, the same geographic remark applies to our Dicksonia Billardieri 

 (D. antarctica, Lab.; Cibotium Billardieri, Kaulf.), which, though reaching 

 New Zealand, does not even extend to the Auckland- and Campbell-Islanda. 

 January 1893. 

 Müller, Ferdinand ron, On Jussiaea repens of Linnaeus. (Erythea. Vol. I. 



1893. p. 61.) 

 Muller, W. und Pilling, F, 0., Deutsche Schulflora. Liefrg. 23. gr. 8°. mit 

 8 farbigen Tafeln. Gera (Hofmann) 1893. M. —.70. 



Paiche, Ph., Notice sur le Zannichellia tenuis Reut. (Bulletin de l'Herbier 

 Boissier. I. 1893. p. 128.) 



Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten: 

 Frank, Nochmals der neue Rübenpilz, Phoma Betae. (Sep.-Abdr. aus Zeitschrift 



für Rüben-Zucker-Industrie. Jahrg. XLII. 8°. 1 p.) 

 — — , Ueber Phoma Betae, einen neuen parasitischen Pilz, welcher die Zucker- 

 rüben zerstört. Mit 1 Tafel. (1. c. p. 903—915.) 



