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the two Upper laterally produccd outward into a small semiorbicular 

 appendage ; anthers minutely pointed ; stylo glabrous, hardly half as 

 long as the coroUa; eover ofthe stigma longitudinally much impreased, 

 beardcd only at the orifice; fruit-capsule roundish, compressed, at and 

 near the base only septate ; seeds few, large, standing nearly at the 

 same level and not much shorter than the valves, flat, pale-brownish, 

 surrounded by a conspicuous colourless membrane. 



Near the Ord-River; H. T. O'Donell. 



Seemingly an herbaceous plant. Stern or branches weak. Leaves 

 oi' thin consistence, equally palc-green, the lower 11/2—2 inches long, 

 the Upper of lesser dimensions, those towards the end of the branches 

 almost reduced to bracts , thus rendering there the inflorescence a 

 Ibliate raceme; denticulations rather remote and not extending to the 

 lower portion of the leaves. Pedicels alender , generally about half 

 an inch long ; the Joint at the base of the calyx. Corolla about V^ 

 inch long, inside thinly white-velvety towards the base. The bulging 

 of the stigmacover indicative of an inclination to form two partitions, 

 as in the section Distylis of Calogyne. Capsule measuring hardly more 

 than i'4 inch. Surrounding membrane of the seeds not very broad. 



Affinity connects this plant variously with several congeners, while 

 its external appearance reminds also of Catospermum Muelleri. From 

 G. coronopifolia it differs already in hairiness, form of leaves and short 

 flower-stalklets ;— from G. Mitchelli in less dense vestiture, the absence 

 of any decurrent protuberance of the corolla and the membranously 

 margined seeds; — from G. hispida in shorter hairiness, prostrate stems, 

 broader leaves, less elongated pedicels and the surrounding seed-mem- 

 brane ; — from G. cycloptera in leafy branches , shape of the leaves, 

 disposition of flowers and pale seeds. This plant shares in the tonic 

 bitterness, for which so many Goodenias are remarkable.] 



Nicotra, L., Intorno ad una proposizione di fitotopografia. (Malpighia. I. 



1886. p. 71.) 

 , Schedule speciografiche referentesi alla flora siciliana. (II Naturalista 



Siciliano. 1886. No. 4.) 

 Keichenbach , H. Cr. fll. , Cypripedium callosum n. sp. (The Gardeners' 



Chronicle. New Ser. Vol. XXVI. No. 663. p. 326.) 

 — — , Oncidium PoUettianum n. sp., an hyb. nat. ? (1. c.) 



Paläontologie : 



Clerici, E., I fossili quaternarii del suolo di Roma. (Bull. Comit. Geologico. 



1886. No. 3/4.) 

 Helm, 0. und Conwentz, H., SuU'ambra di Sicilia. (Malpighia. I. 1886. 



Fase. 2. p. 49.) 



Teratologie und. Fflanzenkrankheiten : 



liaccarini, P., La Peronospora viticola nel Settentrione d'Italia. (Malpighia. 

 I. 1886. p. 56.) 



Passerini, G., Un altra nebbia del frumento. (Bulletino Comizio Agr. Par- 

 mense. 1886. No. 7.) 



Kitzema Bos, J., Beiträge zur Kenntniss landwirthschaftlich schädlicher 

 Thiere. Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen. (Landwirthschaftliche Ver- 

 suchs-Stationen. XXXIII. 1886. Heft 3. p. 207.) 



Medicinisch-pharmaceutisclie Botanik : 



Forster, Einfluss des „Pasteurisirens" auf Bakterien. (Münchener medicinische 

 Wochenschrift. 1886. No. 35.) 



Mittenzweig, Hugo, Bacterien , de oorzaak van infectieziekten. Naar het 

 Duitsch door J. Schoondermark. 8». IX, 111 pp. Amsterdam (A. van 

 Klaveren) 1886. fl. 1,75. 



