396 Neue Litteratur. 



Har?ey 5 F. L., Notes upon Maine plants. (Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 



Club. Vol. XXIV. 1897. No. 1. p. 50 — 51.) 

 Hooker's icones plantarem; or, figures, with descriptive Charakters and remarks, 



of new and rare plants, selected from the Kew Herbarium. Fourth Series. 



Vol. VI. Part I. 1897. Plate 2501—2525. 8°. London (Dulau & Co.) 1897. 

 Ja:']). Otto, Zur Flora von Meyenburg in der Prignitz. (Sep.-Abdr. aus 



Abhandlungen des botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg. Bd. XXXIX. 



1897. p. 10 — 18.) 

 Jepson, Willis L., A new West American Peucedanum. (Erythea. Vol. V. 



1897. No. 1. p. 1.) 

 Kneucker, A., Bemerkungen zu den „Carices exsiccatae". [Schluss.] 



(Allgemeine botanische Zeitschrift. Jahrg. III. 1897. No. 2. p. 26—30.) 

 Knowlton, F. H., How plants are grouped. (Merck's Market Rep. V. 1896. 



p. 655—656.) 

 Kränzlili, F., Orchidaceae novae. (Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier. Ann^e V. 



1897. No. 2. p. 109—111.) 

 Lehmann, Eduard, Nachtrag (I) zur Flora von Polnisch- Livland mit besonderer 



Berücksichtigung der Florengebiete Nordwestrusslauds, des Ostbalticums, der 



Gouvernements Pskow und St. Petersburg, sowie der Verbreitung der Pflanzen 



durch Eisenbahnen. (Sep.-Abdr. aus Archiv für Naturkunde Liv-, Ehst- und 



Curlands. Zweite Serie. Bd. XI. 1896. Lief. 2.) 8°. 125 pp. Jurjew 



[Dorpat] 1896. 

 Luelmiann, J. (r., Reliquiae Muellerianae: Descriptions of new Australian 



plants in the National Herbarium, Melbourne. [Read before Field Naturalist«' 



Club of Victoria, 14th December, 1896.] (Extract. from the Victorian Naturalist. 



December, 1896.) 



Acacia Oathberthsoni Luehrnann (section Juliflorae rigidulae). 



A shrub of about 10 feet; branchlets nearly terete, slightly tomentose; 

 phyllodia lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, almost straight, narrowed at 

 both ends, with a small oblique point, coriaceous, l 1 /* to 2 1 J2 inches 

 long, 2 to 4 lines broad, 'ashy-grey from an extremely fine appressed 

 silky pubescence, with about 5 to 8 sometimes hardly conspicuous veins. 

 Spikes mostly in pairs, shortly pedunculate, cyliudrical, about 3 /4 inch 

 long, not very dense. Flowers mostly 5-merous. Calyx hardly one-quarter 

 as long as the corolla, very thin, with lanceolar slightly ciliate lobes; 

 petals smooth, free to the base. Pod hard and woody, turgid, gently 

 curved, 3 to 4 inches long, 1 /a inch broad over the seeds, contracted 

 between them. Seeds longitudinal, broadly ovate, 3 to 3*/* lines long, 

 turgid; funicle short, thin, the second fold dilated into a boad-shaped aril. 



Western Australia, between the rivers Murchison and Gascoyne; 

 W. Cuthbertson. Near Mount Narryer; Isaac Tyson. 



The phyllodia are in shape similar to those of A. Kempeana, but with 

 less numerous veins ; the fruit is quite diffprent. 



Acacia palustris Luehmann (section Juliflorae stenophyllae). 



Glabrous; branchlets terete,. or nearly so. Phyllodia linear-subulate, 

 stout and rigid, terete, pungent, with fine but rather prominent nerves, 

 3 to 6 inches long. Spikes mostly in pairs, shortly pedunculate, dense, 

 ovoid or oblong, about 3 lines long. Flowers mostly 4 merous. Sepals 

 spathulate, bract-like, about half as long as the corolla. Petals thin, 

 smooth, soon separating. Pod straight, coriaceous, turgid, 4 to 5 inches 

 long, about 4 lines broad over the seeds, much contracted between them. 

 Seeds about 2 I , / 2 lines long, 2 lines broad, very turgid, laterally flattened, 

 encircled by a conspicuous raised line, attached by a small ovate arillus 

 without any filiform funicle. 



Near A. aciphylla. 



Western Australia, in swampy places on the Upper Murchison River; 

 Isaac Tyson. 

 Makino, T., Daphne Kiusiana Miq. considered as identical to the Indian D. 

 cannabina Wall. (The Botsnical Magazine, Tokyo. Vol. XI. 1897. No. 119 

 p. 3 — 7.) [Japanisch.] 

 Meehan, T., Pontederia cordata. (Meehan's Monthly. VII. 1897. p 1. PI. I.) 



