Neue Litteratur. IS! I 



Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: 



Bertram, W., Excursionsflora des Herzogthums liraunschweig mit Einschluss 



des ganzen Harzes. Der Flora von Braunschweig 4. erweiterte und ganzlich 



umgearbeitete Aullage. Herausgegeben von Franz Kraetzer. 8". 392 pp. 



Braunschweig (Vieweg & Sohn) 1894. M. 4 50. 



Bonnet, Ed., Notes sur quelques plantes rares, nouvelles et critiques de Tunisie. 



[Fin.] (Journal de Botanique. VIII. 1894. p. 135—139.) 

 Coville, Frederiek Vernon, A report on the botany of the expedition sent out 

 in 1891 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture to make biological survey 

 of the region of Death Valley, Calif. (Contributions from the U. S. National 

 Herbarium. Vol. IV.) 8°. 319 pp. 21 pl. 1 map. Washington (Governm. 

 print, office) 1893. 

 Matsuda, S. and Yasui, B., Botanical excumons to Izu and Sagami. (The 



Botanical Magazine. Vol. VIII. Tokyo 1894. p. 70.) 

 Matsillliura, J., Japanese species of Juncaceae. (1. c. p. 57.) [Japanisch.] 

 -Meehan, T., Mertensia Virginica. (Meehaus Monthly. IV. 1894. p. 33. 3 pl.) 

 Mori, T., Plauts ofMt. Ena and adjacent mountains. (The Botanical Magazine. 



Vol. VIII. Tokyo 1894. p. 79.) 

 Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Descriptions of new Australian plants, 

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

 Naturalist. 1894. February.) 

 Daviesia Croniniana. 



Branchlets much beset with spreading short hairlets ; leaves crowded 

 into distant often somewhat verticillar fascicles, rather long, quite linear, 

 pungeutly pointed, on the surface prominently three-striate, beneath 

 unisulcate or upwards with two additional furrows, at first villosulous, at 

 last glabrescent; umbels iew-flowered, sessile within fascicles of mainly 

 young leaves ; pedicels glabrous, about as long as the flowers aud arti- 

 culated near them ; calyx scantily beset with hairlets, its tube gradually 

 attenuated at the base, its two upper lobes divergent, almost laterally 

 apiculated, its three lower lobes deltoid; petals upwards dull-purplish, the 

 lateral petals about half as long as the upper one, the lower petals still 

 shorter, blunt; ovulay and style glabrous; fruit obliquely ovate-deltoid, 

 short-acuminate, hardly turgid, devoid of any conspicuous stipe. 

 Towards Lake-Lefroy ; Cronin. 



Leaves mostly 1 — l 1 /a inches long, on very short petioles, while young 

 much incurved, soon straight and rigid, compressed but not of vertical 

 Position ; beneath bistriate, at the margin slightly thickened, the furrows 

 greyish. Pedicels bractless, but bract-like organs scattered among the 

 floral leaves. Calyx fully Ve-inch long, its upper lobes almost semi- 

 orbicular, confluent, considerably broader than the three lower lobes. 

 Upper petal about '.'s-inch broad. Filaments down ward dilated. 

 Fruit nearly '/ 2 -' nc h l° n g> almost dimidiate-cordate, but at the base 

 nearly truncated, after dehiscence its valves much rolled inward. Seeds 

 unknown. 



The fascicular position of the leaves and tbe nestling of the flowers 

 among overbending indumentous young leaves give to this species quite 

 a peculiar aspect. Systematu-ally it approaches D. pedunculata. Inci- 

 dentally it may here be mentioned that the fruit of D. filipes accordiug 

 to Mrs. Biddulph's collection is rhombiform-deltoid, much compressed 

 and about '/s-ineh long. 

 Parish, S. B., Trees of Southern California. (Zoe. A biological Journal. IV. 



1894. p. 332—353. Fig.) 

 Porter, Thomas C, Notes on certain plants of our eastern flora. (Bulletin of 



the Torrey Botanical Club. XXI. 1894. p. 120.) 

 Sargent, C. S., Darbya umbellata. (The Garden and Forest. VII. 1894. p. 74. 



Fig.) 

 Sheldon, E. P., Revised descriptions of the Minnesota Astragali. (Minnesota 



Botanical Studies. Geological and natural history survey of Minnesota. II. 



Bulletin No. 9. 1894. p. 54.) 

 — — , Synonymy of the North American species of Juncodes with further 



nomenclatural notes on Astragalus. (1. c. p. 62.) 



