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the reader; but it is quite as likely as that SanioUis was " named 

 after the Isle of Samos, where the plant was first discovered, by 

 Valerand, in the sixteenth century." Of dizoides our author tells 

 us that " aides in all words = hke ; resembling aiz."{\) 



We can say nothing in commendation of this little book, save 

 that the author's motive in writing it seems to have been an 

 excellent one. But he has not succeeded in carrying it out. 



The Report of the Stonyhurst College Observatory for 1884 

 contains a list of the dates of the flowering of plants during 

 the year . 



Mr. H. C. Hart has pubhshed in the ' Transactions of the Royal 

 Irish Academy' a "Report on the Botany of Sinai and South 

 Palestine" — the result of his expedition with Prof. Hull in 1883. 

 The descriptive account of the journey is written in that pleasant 

 readable style with which readers of this Journal are familar in 

 Mr. Hart's contributions to our pages, and is followed by a 

 systematic list of the plants coUected, about seventy of which are 

 new to Palestine, while three — (Tulkun petrcB, Boucerosia Adronis, 

 and Daphne linearifolia — are here described and figured for the 

 first time. 



Mr. Hart also sends us his ' Report on the Flora of South- 

 west Donegal' (Proc. Royal Irish Acad., 2nd Ser., vol. iv.), which 

 may be regarded as supplementary to his paper in this Journal 

 for 1882. 



A PAMPHLET by M. a. Albert, entitled ' Botanique du Var : plantes 

 nouvelles ou rares' (Draquignan, Latil) contains descriptions of two 

 new species, Capsella hyhrida and Bunium collinam {" B. Bulbo- 

 crtsi«M»./H L., pro parte"); there are also five named forms under 

 Capsella Bursa-pastoris. 



The last part (vol. iv., pt. 3) of the ' Proceedings of the British 

 Naturalists' Society' contains the eighth instalment of Mr. Oedric 

 Bucknall's "Fungi of the British District," with three coloured 

 plates ; a paper on Apospory in Ferns, by Mr. G. T. Druery ; and 

 an instalment {TrUliacem to NaiadacecB) of the ' Flora of the Bristol 

 Coalfields.' 



We are glad to announce the issue of a new part — the ninth — 

 of Dr. Braithwaite's ' British Moss-Flora.' It contains the 

 conclusion of Tortnla, the description of Pleurochaate, and the 

 greater part of Mollla. Twenty -three species are figured on four 

 plates, in the usual style of excellence which has marked this work 

 from its commencement. 



Mr. Thomas Kirk sends us a reprint of some papers published 

 in the ' Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,' " On the 

 Flowering Plants and Ferns of Stewart Island" [Dracophyllnm 

 Pearsonii, Scirpas muscosus, S. ehenocarpus, Danthonid crassinscula, D. 

 flaccida, Poa Walkeri, Polypodium crassium, spp. nn.) ; "On the 

 Punui of Stewart Island " [Aralia Lyallii, Kirk = StUbocarpa 



