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History Society ; and a Field Club has been formed at Newbury, for the inves- 

 tigation of the natural history and antiquities of West Berks and North Hants. 

 We trust that, by the united exertions of these bodies, a Flora of Hampshire 

 may ere long be produced ; considerable material for which already exists, both 

 in print and in MS., the latter among Dr. Bromfield's papers in the library of 

 Kew. 



At the meeting of the Royal Irish Academy on the 11th April, Dr. David 

 Moore described two cases of heterogamy. In one, a female flower was pro- 

 duced at the end of a male raceme of Carica Papaya, and this formed a fruit, 

 whicli, however, fell off in ripening ; in the other, a plant of Nepenthes Dis- 

 tillatoria raised from seed in the Grlasnevin gardens, produced male and female 

 flowers in the same raceme. 



An attempt is being made to cultivate Tea in California, and as many as 

 27,000 trees have been imported. 



A drawing of a specimen of Oreodoxa regia, a Cuban Palm, was recently ex- 

 hibited at the Academie des Sciences, which divided into nine branches at the 

 summit of the stem. Dr. Pulney Andy, in the twenty-sixth volume of the 

 ' Linnean Transactions,' has described and figured examples of brandling in 

 Borassus Jlabelliformis and Cocos nu.ifera in Southern Ir^dia, and states that 

 as many as twelve branches have been observed in the former. 



This month (May) the various botanical lectm'ers connected with the medical 

 schools of London commence their courses. The present occupants of the 

 chairs of botany in London are : — King's College, Professor R. Bentley, F.L.S. ; 

 University College, Professor D.Oliver, F.R.S. ; Gruy's Hospital, Mr. C. Jolm- 

 son ; St. Thomas's Hospital, Dr. J. W. Hicks ; St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 

 Rev. a. Henslow, M. A., F.L.S. ; St. George's Hospital, Dr. Child ; St. Mary's 

 Hospital, Dr. H. Trimen, F.L.S. ; London Hospital, Mr. J. G. Baker, F.L.S. ; 

 Middlesex Hospital, Dr. S. Cobbold, F.R.S. ; Charing Cross Hospital, Dr. R. 

 Braithwaite, F.L.S. ; and Westminster Hospital, Mr. A. W. Bennett, M.A., 

 B.Sc, F.L.S. 



Some apology is needed to the members of the Botanical Exchange Club, 

 many of whom are subscribers to this Journal, for the delay in issuing the par- 

 cels this year. The Curator, Dr. Boswell Syme, has had his time so fully oc- 

 cupied with the work of describing the Glumiferce for ' English Botany,' as to 

 find insufficient leisure hitherto to make up the return parcels, but, we are 

 informed, will do so as soon as possible. 



NEW BOOKS. 



Mr. WilUam Bull's catalogue of new and rare plants for 1870 has just been 

 issued, filling 172 closely printed pages ! Independent of the extensive col- 

 lection of purely florists' flowers which this list contains, there is an extremely 

 valuable and interesting number of plants of the highest botanical interest, 

 many of them hitherto known only from mere scraps in lierbaria, many again 

 never seen by European botanists until raised by Mr. Bull. 



Mr. Augustus Mongredieu has published (Murray) a liandsomely got up 



