OZ BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 



graphiae Labiatarum ' [Acrocephalus Heudelotii, sp. n. ; Decades 

 Menthavum novarum, &c.). — J. Miiller, ^ Arthonm & Arthothelii 

 species Wriglitiaiife in Cuba lectse.' — G. Scbweinfurth, ' Sammlung 

 Arabiscb-^thiopiscber Pflanzen.' 



Bull. Torrey Hot. Club (Dec. 24).— E. L. Sturtevant, 'Notes on 

 Maize.' — T. F. Allen, 'Japanese CharacecB.* — Id., ' Chara sejuncta.' 

 — G. N. Best, ' Orthotrichum gymnostomum.' 



Erytliea (Jan.). — M. A. Howe, ' Early History of Hepaticology.' 

 — E. L. Greene, ' Observations on ComjJosittB.' 



Gardeners' Chronicle (Jan. 5). — Cleyera Fortiinei Hook. f. (fig. 1), 

 Catasetum imperiale Lind. & Cogn., spp. nn. — (Jan. 12). Cineraria 

 albicans N. E. Br., Pteris regia Jenm., spp. nn. — (Jan. 19). 

 Asplenium Harrisi Jenm., sp.n. 



Irish Naturalist (Jan.). — H. & J. Groves, ' Distribution of 

 CharacecB in Ireland.' 



Journal de Botanique (dated Oct. 16, Nov. 1 & 16). — A. 

 Franchet, ' Plantes nouvelles de la Cbine occidentale.' — N. Patouil- 

 lard & L. Morot, ' Quelques Cbampignons du Congo.' 



Nuovo Ginrn. Bat. Ital. (Jan. 10). — S. Sommier & E. Levier, 

 *I Cirsirim del Caucaso.' — E. Bonnet, ' Le piante egiziane del 

 Museo Reale di Torino.' — R. Cobelli, ' Spigolature della Flora di 

 Serrada.' — C. Massalongo, ' Contributo alia entomocecidiologia 

 italica.' — G. Arcangeli, ' Sopra una mostruosita del Lentinus 

 tigrinus' (1 pi.). — A. Pistone, ' Di alcune cisti tannifere.' 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Jan.). — J. Lutkemiiller, ' Ueber die 

 Gattung Spirotarna ' (1 pi.). — J. v. Sterneck, ' Zur Kenntniss der 

 Gattung Alectorolophus.' — R. v. Wettstein, ' Kuphrasia' (cent.). 

 — P. Magnus, ' Zur weiteren Verbreitung zweier eingewanderter 

 Pflanzen in Siidtirol.' — K. Prolmska, ' Zwei Bastarde aus Veronica 

 Bonarota & V. lutea.' — A. v. Degen, Achillea Baldaccii, sp.n. — F. 

 Pax, Hypochceris carpathica, sp.n. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



Mr. Druce's Flora of Berkshire is announced as being in the 

 press. It will be on the lines of the Flora of Oivfordshire, and has 

 occupied most of the author's leisure since the completion of the 

 last-named work in 1886. We hope that when this is completed 

 Mr. Druce may be induced to turn his attention to Buckingham- 

 shire : it would be very desirable that the plants of the three 

 counties forming the West Thames subprovince should be treated 

 by the same hands. 



Those who think that the study of common British plants is 

 exhausted will do well to read a paper " On the Fertilisation of 

 some species of Medicago in Britain," recently published by Mr. 

 I. H. Burkill in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 

 (vol. viii. pt. 3). The mechanism involved in the process of 



