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paratively minute , while their commissural area is uninterruptedly 

 extended into a conspicuous almost semi-circular membrane, which by 

 coherence with the corresponding dilatations of the adjoming fruitlete 

 give to the whole fruit five very prominent much compressed anglee. 

 T. macrocarpus has recently been found in Central Australia be- 

 tween the Finke-River and Charlotte-Waters by the Rev. H. Kempe, 

 but also there in fruit only ; it cannot be confounded with T. platypterus, 

 inasmuch as that species forms (according to the Hon. Maitl. Brown) 

 an erect shrub to 3 feet high has thick finally corky branches, broader 

 almost glabrous leaflet, a shorter also thicker style with less turgid 

 stigma, while the fruitlets are produced into broader and more tender 

 membranes, are devoid of free dorsal spines and are ripening each 

 only one seed, which in very pendent; the floral characteristics of the 

 two species are likely also very different. In fruit T. platypterus is 

 rauch more closely akin to T. hirsutus ; indeed I feel by no means 

 sure that they are specifically distinct from each other , both being 

 alike also in the form of their petals ; in both likewise one or two 

 of the anthers occasionally become much elongated. 



The four plants, above alluded to, are very difl'erent from any forma 

 of the highly variable T. terrestris , which species presents always 

 fruits with a depressed-pyramidal summit and quite a different spini- 

 fication. 



Babbagea scleroptera. 

 Leaves short almost semicylindrical ; axils not distinctly bearded ; 

 tube of the fruit-calyx turgid, downward smooth, deeply excavated at 

 the base inside, streaked towards the summit, terminated by generally 

 five but sometimes fewer rhomboid-or obovate-cuneate not membranona 

 appendages; seed lodged above the middle of the calyx-tube. 

 Near the Warrego ; Betche. 



This species diifers from B. pentaptera particularly in the deep basal 

 empty cavity of the fruit, in the appendages not reaching to the base 

 of the calyx-tube and not or only slightly expanding into a tender 

 membrane. Indeed this new plant is nearer to B. acroptera , from 

 which it is distinct in its fruit-calyx being more turgid and not oblique 

 at the base , and producing an augmented number of appendages 

 devoid of any ample terminating membrane.] 

 Nenmann, L. M., Botaniska anteckningar frän en resa i södra och mellersta 

 Norrland är 1885. (Botaniska Notiser. 1885. No. 5.) 

 [Rumex armoraciaefolius n. sp.] 

 Richter, Karl, Viola spectabilis K. Richter. Ein neues Veilchen aus Nieder- 

 Oesterreich. (Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift. XXXV. 1885. No. 12. 

 p. 419.) 

 Bidley, H. N., Notes on british Rubi. (Journal of Botany. XXIII. 1885. No. 



276. p. 370.) 

 Schentz, N. J., Spridda växtgeografiska bidrag. (Botaniska Notiser. 1885. 



No. 5.) 

 Thedenius, K. F., Tragopogon parvifolia-minor, en ny hybrid. (1. c. No. 5.) 



Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten : 



Cnboni, G. , Gli effetti dell' idrato di calce nella cura delle viti contro la 

 Peronospora. (Rivista di viticoltura ed enologia italiana. [Conegliano.] 

 Ser. III. Anno IX. 18a5. p. 673.) 



Fitz, James, Action de la chaux sur les vignes atteintes du mildew. (Comptes 

 rendus des säances de l'Academie des siences de Paris. T. CI. 1885. p. 1049.) 



MedicinischL-pharmaceutische Botanik : 



Bierbanul, K. und Grimm, J., Atlas von Photographien mikroskopischer 

 Präparate der reinen und gefälschien Nahrungsmittel. Abth. I. Atlas zur 

 Mehlprüfung. 4o. Stuttgart (E. Schiveizerbart) 1885. M. 24.— 



Bachner, Zur Kenntniss des Neapeler Cholera-Bacillus und einiger demselben 

 nahestehender Spaltpilze, (Archiv für Hygiene. III. 1885. No. 3.) 



