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Mac Leod, Jnlins, Nouvelles recherches sur la fertilisation de quelques 

 plantes Phanerogames. (Extr. des Archives de Biologie. T. VII, 1886.) 8°. 

 ]). 131—166 et planche. Gand 1886. *) 



St'henrk, Heinrich, Vergleichende Anatomie der submersen Gewächse. 4". 

 II, 67 pp. und lOTfln. (Bibliotheca Botanica. Bd. I. Heft 1.) Cassel (Th. 

 Fischer) 1886. M. 32.— 



Wittmack, L., Ueber das Grösserwerden der Blätter und Blüten im Norden. 

 (Deutsche Garten-Zeitung. I. 1886. No. 37. p. 435. Mit Abbildung.) 



Wortmann, Jul., Ueber die Natur der rotirenden Nutation der Schling- 

 pflanzen. (Botanische Zeitung. XLIV. 1886. No. 36. p. 617.) 



Zopf, W., lieber die Gerbstott- und Anthocyan-Behälter der Fumariaceen 

 und einiger anderen Pflanzen. (Bibliotheca Botanica. Bd. I. Heft 2.) 4". 

 40 pp. und 3 Doppeltafeln in Farbendruck. Cassel (Th. Fischer) 1886. M. 24.- 



Systematik und Fflanzengeograpliie : 



Brown, N. E., Aristolochia ridicula N. E. Brown n. sp. (The Gardeners' 



Chronicle. New Ser. Vol. XXVI. 1886. No. 664. p. 360.) 

 Krok, Tli. 0. B. N. und Almquist, S., övensk flora för skolor. II. Krypto- 



gamer. Heft 1. Ormbunkar, mossor och alger. S". VI, 60 pp. Stockholm 



(Z. Häggström) 1886. 1 Kr. 



Müller, Ferdinand Baron von, Descriptions of new Plauts from the Western 



Regions of Australia. (Extra print from the „Australasian Journal of 



Pharmacy^ August, 1886.) 



[Melaleuca seorsiflora. — Quite glabrous ; leaves scattered , conspi- 

 cuously stalked, short, semicylindric-linear,spreading, nerveless, bluntish ; 

 flowers small, solitary in the axils ; tube of the calyx ellipsoid-cylindric, 

 twice longer than broad ; lobes semilanceolate-linear , nearly half as 

 long as the tube ; petals white, oval, inflexed longitudinally ; stamens 

 white, 10 — 14 in each set; filaments fascicularly arranged , from as 

 long as the connate part to twice as long ; anthers oval, pale ; ovary 

 immersed. 



Near Mount Rugged ; Miss S. B r o o k e. 



Leaves from a quarter to nearly half an inch long , somewhat 

 narrowed into the base and apex , not shining nor very crowded. 

 Flowers towards and near the summit of the branchlets, but not for- 

 ming spikes. Calyx remarkably elender, nearly V* inch long. Petals 

 t«nder-membranous, not ciliated. Fruit not seen. Height and stature 

 of plant also as yet unknown. 



Allied to M. dissitiflora, particularly so far as the dispersion of the 

 flowers is concerned, but the leaves shorter and biunter, no distinct 

 bracts developed unless very fugaciously, the calyx considerably longer 

 and the fruit also likely difterent.— From M. pauperiflora, to which M. 

 fasciculiflora of Bentham is near akin , our additional species differs 

 principally in the solitary position of the flowers, in non-occurrence 

 of long-persistent and imbricated bracts , in the elongation of the 

 calycoa and their pointed lobes, in the longer integral portions of the 

 stamens with somewhat more numerous filaments, — the fruit also in 

 this instance requiring comparison. The streng odour of the plant 

 indicates its antiseptic value. 



Goodenia O'Donnellii. — Decumbent , short -hairy; branches leafy, 

 slender ; lower leaves obovate-cuneate, upper cuneate-lanceolar, gradually 

 narrower and smaller, all flat, denticulated and narrowed into a petiolar 

 base; peduncles none; pedicels axillary, solitary or two or three to- 

 gether , about as long as the flowers ; bractooles none ; lobes of the 

 calyx linear, broader downward, nearly as long as the tube; corolla 

 yellow, somewhat hairy outside, the three lower lobes rather short, 



*) Auf Wunsch des Herrn Verf. sei hier bemerkt, dass er die „Conside- 

 rations generales relativement aux Caryophyllees precedentes" (p. 141 — 143) 

 und die Anmerkung auf p. 145 als nicht vorhanden betrachtet wissen 

 möchte. U. 



