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been continued in part seven to the Bidnacecv ; the Biologia centralu 

 americam, the botanical part of wbicli is by Hemsley, contains the 

 orders from i^osaccu' to ioasacac; the Flora Brasiliensts, fuse. / 6 con- 

 taining- Lemnacccv by Hegelmaier, and Aracea'by Engler, was pubbshed 

 this year, although the last-named order had been in press for some 

 time Fournier's Mexicanarum plantarum enumeratio is devoted to the 

 grasses, and the same writer has a paper on the geographical distribu- 

 tion of Mexican grasses in the Ann. Sci. Nat., in which he remarks that 

 of the 643 species in Mexico 371 are peculiar to that country. Adansoma 

 contains a number of papers by Baillon on the development of the flow- 

 ers in Berheridaccm, ISdaglnacece, and Stylidiacew. Concerning onental 

 plants, we have to mention RegePs Description of Plants from Central 

 ^6-m, cultivated in the Botanic Garden at St. Petersburg-, Diagnoses 

 plantarum novarum asiaticarum, by Maximowicx, m the Bull. Acad. 

 Imp of St. Petersburg; Spicilegia Florm Sinensis, by Hance, in Journ. 

 Linn Soc. A succinct account of the Japanese flora is to be found in 

 Eeiii's work entitled Japan, and a short notice of Madagascar plants 

 is given by Baker in Nature. The grasses of New Zealand are described 

 by Buchanan in a Manual of indigenous grasses of New Zeala^id.. The 

 Fragnienta PhytograpMw Australiw of Baron F. von Mueller has been 

 continued in two parts, and the same wdter has issued a fifth decade 

 of Euealyptograjphia, a descriptive atlas of the species ot Lucalyptus of 

 Australia and the adjacent islands. In the Gardener's Chronicle is a 

 paper on Cinchonas, and a controversy on the subject of species of Cm- 

 clwna has been cariied on in the Bot. Zeitung by Kuntze and Karstm. 

 There appeared in 1880 the first volume of BotanischeJahrhicherfur 

 Systematic, PflanzenqescMchte, inid Pflanzengeographie, edited by Eugler 

 and issued by Englemann, of Leipzig. The first volume contains a large 

 number of interesting papers relating to phsenogams, amongst which 

 m-iy be enumerated: Bece-^ri^s PJIanzengeograpkie des Malaytsclien Arclii- 

 pels- Focke's Natiirliche Gliedernng und die geographiscJie Verhreitung der 

 Gattung Bubus-, Buchenau's VerbreUung dsr Juncaceen ilberdieErde; 

 En«' lei's Beitrdge zur Kenntmss der Arace(B and Verbreitung der Gattung 

 Elms- and Lange's Studien iiber Gronlands Flora. In connection with 

 the distribution of species should be noticed Quelques observations sur la 

 Flore Alpine d^urope, by Bonnier, in which he compares the notes made 

 bv him on plants collected in the Carpathian Mountains, the Austnan 

 Alps and the Tyrolese Alps, and concludes that the constitution of the 

 soil has little to do with the distribution of species, which depends, aa 

 De CandoUe maintained, on the sums of the temperatures. 



