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first part is devoted to a popular description of the lower fungi, such 

 as those which produce putrefaction and contagion. Part second is 

 devoted to carnivorous plants. The whole work is profusely illus- 

 trated. 



EucALVPTOGRAPHiA is the title of a descriptive atlas of the Euca- 

 lypts of Australia and the adjoining islands, by Baron F. von Mueller. 

 At present there have been published but two decades of the work. 

 This group of trees seems to be a most remarkable one in size and in 

 value. The genus Eucalyptus is a very large one, and by no memshave 

 all the forms been described. The Eucalypts, as they are called, are 

 said to yield hard timber, oils, tars, acids, dyes, tan, and potash. 

 Some of them rise to a height of 300 feet, with a stem six feet in di- 

 ameter, and sometimes ten. Packing paper has been prepared from 

 the inner layers of the bark. One species, E. alpina, is remarkable 

 for its limited geographical range, being found only on the summit of 

 Mt. Williams, Victoria, at an elevation of over 4,000 feet. 



The agents for this work in London are Messrs. Trubner & Co. 



Evolution OF the Vegetable Kingdom, by Dr. Adolf Englcr. 

 Part I of this work is nociced in Nature, from which we take the fol- 

 lowing synopsis of contents : "Hie subject, 'The Extratropical Re- 

 gion of the Northern Hemisphere,' is divided into five sections. In 

 the first section the author treats of the development of the flora of 

 North America from the Miocene period to the Glacial epoch ; tlie 

 second is devoted to the development of the flora of Eastern and 

 Central Asia since Tertiary times; the third to the main features of 

 the development of the Mediterranean flora since the Tertiary period ; 

 the fourth to the development of high mountain flora before, dur- 

 ing, and after the Glacial epoch ; and the fifth to the consideration of 

 the development of the floras of other countries influenced by the 

 Glacial periods." 



A NEW English Text-Book of Botany has been translated 

 from the German of Prof. K. Prantl and revised by S. H. Vines. 

 The object of this work is to provide a more elementary text bo lic 

 than Sachs, but, at the same time, to follow his method of treatment. 

 It seems to be principally made up of Sachs simplified, and in spite 

 of some minor blemishes the reviewer in Nature pronunces it em 

 phatically to be the best of its kind in the English language. 



The Royal Gardens, Kew, have been lately receiving some 

 valuable gifts. The herbarium of Dr. Goodcnough, who died m 

 1827, has been transferred to the Gardens and the great collection of 

 mosses accumulated by the late Prof. Schimper, has been presented 

 to Kew by the Baroness Burdett Couts. Dr. M. C. Cooke has en- 

 tered upon his duties as Cryptofi:amist of the Herbarium, taking charge 

 of all the non-vascular cryptogams. 



Jamaica Dogw(~)od, or Piscidia Erytkri/ia, promises to come into 

 quite prominent use as a medicine, the bark of the root yielding a 

 drug that is claimed can be used as opium and with much better 

 effects. It has been used in Jamaica and England as a nervous seda- 

 tive, and a contributor to the Therapeutic Gazette, says that the 



