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F.R.S., Vice-president of the Linnean Society, Knight of the Danish Order of 

 Danebrog — a name that will be loved and honoured as long as botanical science shall 

 continue to be cultivated. His persevering and arduous services and literary labours 

 in unhealthy tropical climes gradually undermined his constitution and induced 

 organic disease, which, after two or three months' confinement, terminated fatally, 

 at his house in Upper Gower-street, on the 28th April, 1854, in the 68th year of his 

 age. (Mr. Swainson) Botanical Report on the Eucalypti and Cassuarinae of Victoria, 

 New Holland ; Botanical News from Italy ; Podostemon Salt. Notices of Books. 



No. 66, July : — (G. Bentham) Notes on North Brazilian Gentianeae, from the 

 collections of Mr. Spruce and Sir R. Schomburgk ; (M. J. Berkeley) Decades of 

 Fungi— Decades 47, 48— Indian Fungi (continued from p. 174), with lithographs 

 of Lentinus inquinans, Berk., and Poluporus spuamasformis, Berk. ; (J. S. Roe) 

 Report of a Journey of Discovery into the Interior of Western Australia, between 

 8th September, 1848, and 3rd February, 1849 (continued from p. 180); (W. H. 

 Harvey) Extract of a letter from — dated Cape Riche, West Australia, March 12, 

 1854 — in which Professor Harvey states, that owing to want of storms to drive the 

 algae on shore, he has not found the coast as productive as he would have wished, 

 there being very little ground laid bare at low water-mark for examination. The 

 Fucoids along the shore do not seem to reach their proper development — at least, 

 none are yet to be found in fruit, and very few are properly provided with air- 

 vessels. My dried specimens of algas, so far, are about 5,000, but only about 120 

 species among them. I have got a Martensia (or Hemitrema), but very few speci- 

 mens of it. It was a deep water waif. Botanical Information — Letter from M. 

 Kralik — now collecting in Tunis — on his journey in that Regency. Notices of 

 Books — Goodenovicse ; (W. J. H. Hooker) Icones Plantarum. 8vo. 10 vols. 

 1,000 plates. 



No. 67, August : — (Rev. M. J. Berkeley) Decades of Fungi— Decades 49, 50— 

 Indian Fungi (continued from p. 212), with lithographs of Lentinus praerigidus, 

 Berk."; Cordyceps racemosa, Berk. ; C. falcata, Berk. ; and Sclerographium ater- 

 rimum, Berk ; (G. Bentham) On the Tree supplying the Sabicu Wood of Cuba. 

 This tree, the Lysiloma Sabicu, appears, as far as is hitherto known, to be strictly 

 confined to the Island of Cuba. Its timber is extensively imported into this country 

 for its excessive hardness, which renders it so valuable for ship-building and other 

 purposes. (C. R. Nesbitt) Vegetable Fibres of the Bahamas ; (J. S. Roe) Report 

 of a Journey of Discovery into the interior of Western Australia (continued from 

 p. 217). Botanical Information — Oxford Herbarium. An idea of the extent of the 

 whole collection of dried plants preserved, may be given from the total number of 

 specimens — viz., 43,812. The Herbarium also contains the valuable collection of 

 drawings of the animals of the Levant, executed by the celebrated F. Bauer. 

 They consist of 11 drawings of quadrupeds, 44 of reptiles, 122 of fishes, and 115 of 

 birds ; also one of the only two copies struck off from the plates engraved, by order 

 of the Emperor, from the MS. of Dioscorides, with illuminated figures, preserved 

 in the imperial library, at Vienna, presented by Dr. Sibthorp, and was given him by 

 the elder Jacquin, when he passed through Vienna, on his way to Greece, in 1786. 

 Collections of dried plants, on sale with R. F. Hohenacker, at Esslingen, near 

 Stutgart. Notices of Books— Sikkim — Himalayan Plants ; Bryologia Britannica ; 

 Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum ; Monograph of Tropical American Oaks. 



No. 68, September :—( Dr. W. H. de Vricsc) Remarks on Doornia and Rykia, 



