372 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



In the double Cocoa-nut Lodoicea, the protruded end of the cotyledon is as 

 much as 12 or 18 inches long. The sheath or socket at the base of tlie stem 

 of this Palm, which attracted a good deal of attention in 1864 at the Linncau 

 Society and elsewhere, is shown to be not peculiar to it, though more deve- 

 loped than in other species, and to be formed by tlie vascular bundles of the 

 rudimentary and early le.aves. 



The lately published part (vol. xxvii. part 2) of the ' Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society ' contains the following botanical papers : — On three new 

 genera {RhapJiithamnus, Phellodenna, and Diostea) from Chile and its adja- 

 cent regions, and on the genera Gcetzia and ]£spadea, both by G. Miers ; on 

 the genus Bosivellia, with descriptions and figures of three new species (5. 

 Carterii, B. Bhau-dajiensis, and B. Frereana), by Gr. Bu'dwood, M.D. (which 

 gives an exhaustive history of the literature of Frankincense) ; on some species 

 of Agaricus from Ceylon, by Rev. M. J. Berkeley and C. E. Broome ; on the 

 similarity between the genus Braparnaldia and the confervoid filaments of 

 Mosses, by J. B. Hicks, M.D. ; and notes on the Lichens of St. Helena, on 

 SphcBria tartaricola, Nyl., a new British Fungus, and the Lichens of Ceylon 

 collected by G. H. K. Thwaites, Ph.D., all by the Rev. W. A. Leighton. 



Dr. P. Magnus, of Bremen, has published as his inaugural dissertation 

 ' Contributions towards a knowledge of the genus Najas,' appropriately dedi- 

 cated to Professor Alexander Braun, and accompanied by illustrations. 



Dr. Seemann has left England for Nicaragua, and will be absent for some 

 months. 



The new series of the 'Pharmaceutical Journal' has been entrusted to the 

 editorship of Dr. B. H. Paul. 



Among the awards recently made by the Academic des Sciences, we find the fol- 

 lowing : Prix de Physiologic Expei-imentale, to M. Famintzin, for his researches 

 in vegetable physiology ; Prix Desmazieres divided between M. H. Hoffmann, 

 of Giessen, for his Memoir on Bacteria, and M. Rabenhorst, for his Flora 

 Europsea Algarum ; and honourable mention of M. Strasburger, of Jena, for 

 his observations on the fecundation of Perns ; Prix Tliore to M. Bonnet, for 

 his researches on the Truffle. 



The Belgian Academy offers a prize for 1871, for an essay on the position in 

 the vegetable kingdom of the genus Lycopodiiim, and of four allied genera. 



The Rev. W. M. Hind, of Pinner, Middlesex, has presented his large British 

 Herbarium to Trinity College, Dublin. The specimens have been fastened 

 down, and incorporated with the British collection in the Herbarium of the 

 College, and all original memoranda carefully retained. There are some in- 

 teresting Irish species in Mr. Hind's herbarium, of which we are promised a 

 notice shortly. 



Communications have been received from Dr. F. Miiller, Dr. H. F. Hance, 

 W. G. Smith, Hon. J. L. Warren, Dr. Perceval Wright, J. Roy, Rev. J. M. 

 Crombie, Dr. R. Braithwaite. 



Corrigenda. — In Dr. Hance's paper, p. 75, foot-note, lines 2, 4, and 5, 

 " vol." and " p." should be omitted ; the references are to book and chapter. 

 On p. 76, 1. 24, for " shape" read " style." 



