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cated by Daniel Hanbury, Esq. VII. On Collecting and Preserving the Cryp- 

 togamia. By Professor Dickie, Aberdeen. VIII. On the Dates of Flowrring 

 of Eranihis hyemalis and Leucojum vernum in the Royal Botanic Garden for 

 the last twenty years. By Dr. VV. R. M'Nab. iX. Notes on Abies 7-uhra, 

 nigra, and alba. By Mr. William Gorrie. 



Dotankal |ttfos. 



NEW BOOKS, PERIODICALS, ETC. 



We welcome the tliird volume of the Royal Society's ' Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers,' which carries on the index of names to Lez inclusive. The fourth 

 volume is well on ; and the Society have entered into an arrangement with Pro- 

 fessor Cams, of Leipzig, for the preparation of an alphabetical list of subjects 

 which will be of very great service to all students of natural science. 



Mr. M'Ken, of the Botanic Garden, Natal, has just printed a ' Synopsis' 

 (pp. 28) of the Ferns known to inhabit the Colony. The classification and 

 nomenclature is that of Hooker and Baker's ' Synopsis ^ilicum.' Natal has 

 been carefully searched for Ferns during many years by Mr. M'Ken himself, 

 Mr. Krauss, the Rev. J. Buchanan, Mr. Sanderson, and others, and near 120 

 species ai-e known within its Uraits, several of which are subtropical species 

 which do not reach Cape Colony proper. 



Mr. George Barber, a pharmaceutist, of Liverpool, has published a Medico- 

 Botanical Map of the World, in which the names of the various substances of 

 the Materia Medica are entered on the countries whence they are derived. The 

 map is also furnished with isothermal lines. 



Mr. T. B. Flower's ' Flora of Wiltshire' has reached its eleventh part, which 

 brings the enumeration of species to the end of the Solanaceee. 



We notice the appearance of K. M. Lyell's ' Geographical Handbook of all 

 known Ferns,' divided into six territorial divisions (Murray, 7*. Gel.) ; and of 

 F. 8. Cordier's ' Les Champignons de la France,' Part I., with coloured plates 

 (5«.) ; also of the first part of ' Microscopic Objects Described and Figured,' 

 by G. H. Martin (Van Voorst), which contains 16 drawings of vegetable 

 tissues. 



Mr. Axel Blytt, of Christiania, has published a Flora of the Sogne fjord 

 (' Om Vegetationsforholdene ved Sognefjorden'), which lies in lat. 61° N., on 

 the east coast of Norway, between Christiania and Trondhjem. Mr. Blytt read 

 an interesting paper on the subject before the Botanical Congress which met 

 in London in 1866 (see Journ. Bot. Vol. V. p. 86), but now gives a complete list 

 of species and localities. 737 are included, and many varieties, and there is also 

 a list of the Mosses by Mr. N. Wulfsberg. The book is illustrated by a good 

 map of the fjord, and there is an introduction on the climale and topography, 

 and range and altitude of various species. 



