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The great work of Hooker and Benthain, Genera Plantarum, was com- 

 pleted this year with the end of the third volume. The Monographice 

 Phanerogamarum of De Candolle has been continued in several parts, 

 including Burseraeece and Anacardiacew by Engler, Panted eriacew by 

 Solnis-Laubach, and Gyrstandrea' by 0. B. Clarke, the last-named article 

 being illustrated with 32 plates. Engler's Botanische Jahrbuecher has a 

 number of papers on phaenerogams, among which may be enumerated 

 the editor's Beit rage zur Kenntniss der Araceiv, in which some new gen- 

 era are described ; a continuation of Koehue's monograph of Lythfacece; 

 Warming's studies of the family of Podostemacea? and Tropische Frag- 

 mented including the development of Rhizophora with illustrations. The 

 Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin has a monograph of Turneraeea? and a paper on 

 Rutaceo) by Urban. 



The Journal of Botany has a paper by Masters on New Passiflorte, 

 several papers by Hance on Chinese and Formosan plants, particularly 

 important to American botanists on account of the discovery of ad- 

 ditional species belonging to characteristic genera of the Eastern United 

 States; descriptions of new Bermuda plants by Hemsley, not to men- 

 tion other articles. The Jour. Linn. Soc. has an article by Masters on 

 Passiflorte collected by E. Andr6 in Ecuador and New Granada, and 

 descriptions of a large number of Madagascar plants by Baker. In In- 

 crementa Flora? Rossicce Trautvetter gives additions to the flora of Rus- 

 sia, and Kjellmann has published two valuable papers on the Phseno- 

 gams of the Vega expedition from Northern Siberia, Nova Zembla, and 

 Waigatsch, giving the general aspect and conditions of vegetation of 

 those regions, together with a detailed account of the phaenogauis col- 

 lected. Some new plants from the Argentine Republic have been de- 

 scribed by Spegazzini in Plantw Nova? Austri- Americana}. 



A. De Candolle in Nouvelles Remarques sur la Nomenclature Botanique, 

 a pamphlet of 80 pages, considers some questions which have arisen iu 

 connection with his " Lois de la Nomenclature Botauique." An English 

 translation of Poulsen's Botanische Microchemie with notes by Trelease 

 has been published by Cassino. Grant Allen's Flowers and their Pedi- 

 grees is a work in the usual vein of this author, who has during the year 

 written a number of papers on plants iu connection with evolution in 

 different popular journals. The Torrey Bulletin has a continuation of 

 Gerard and Britton's List of State and Local Floras of the United States 

 aud a series of biographies of some North American botanists was 

 begun in the Bot. Gazette. 



Necrology of botanists, 1883. 



Anzi, D. M. Died at Como, April 19. 



Bianco, Giuseppe. Died at Avola, Italy, November 12, set. 82. 

 Breindl, Alfred. Died at Nabresina, November 24. 

 Cesati, Baron Vincenzo. Born at Milan May 24, 1806. Died at 

 Naples, February 13. 



