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Fern Growin;/ : Fifty Yenrs' Experii'nce in Croswiy and Cultivation. 

 By E. J. Lowe, F.R.S. With Q'2 illustrations. London: 

 Nimmo. 8vo, pp. ix, 196. Price 123. Gd. 



In this handsome volume Mr. Lowe has given us an account of 

 his numerous and long-continued experiments in the crossing of 

 ferns. In 1867 he read a paper at the British Association Meeting 

 in Dundee, based on his experience during the preceding ten years, 

 but his views were not favourably received, and it was not until 

 about twelve years ago that the accuracy of his conclusions, based 

 on his own experiments and those of others, were generally accepted. 

 Since 1842, as he tells us in his preface, Mr. Lowe has conducted 

 experiments in the hybridization of various plants ; and writing 

 now, in his seventieth year, his enthusiasm is as intense as it ever 

 was, and his experiments continue. 



We must refer our readers to the book itself for an account of 

 Mr. Lowe's investigations, many of which will be familiar to readers 

 of the Gardeners' Chrojiide and to frequenters of the British Asso- 

 ciation. The summary of experiments and results which he gives 

 is both valuable and interesting, and we note with pleasure his hearty 

 recognition of other workers in the same field, of the principal of 

 whom he gives short biographies and portraits. An admirable etched 

 portrait of the author is prefixed to the volume, which is copiously 

 illustrated. 



ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 



Bot. CentraMatt (No. 34). — A. Meyer, ' Ueber den Bau von 

 VoUoiV aureus und F. globator.' — (Nos. 36, 37). F. Hock, ' Ueber 

 urspriingliche Pflanzen Norddeutschlands.' 



Butanical Gazette (Aug. 15). — E. B. Uline & W. L. Bray, 

 ' N. American AniarayithacetB.' — W. Deane, ' How I mount plants.' — 

 J. P. Lotsy, ' Enphorbiacecc from Guatemala ' (2 pi.). — J, W. Tourney, 

 • Vegetal dissemination in Opuntia.' — T.Hohn, 'Anatomical charac- 

 ters of N. American Graminea;' (1 pi.). — G. E. Davenport, 'D. C. 

 Eaton ' (portr.). — B. L. Robin-son, ' The Madison Piules.' — J. M. 

 Coulter & J. N. Rose, Deanea (gen.nov., Unibelli/erce : 1 pi.). 



Bull, de ''Herb. Boissier (Sept.). — A. Tonduz, ' Herborisations 

 au Costa-Rica' (2 pL). — J. Freyn, ' Orientalische PHanzenarten.' 

 — G. Lindau, * Acanthacefe Americanae ' [Clmtocldamys, gen. nov.). 

 — A. Jaczewski, ' Les Chaetomiees de la Suisse.' 



Bull. Torrey Bot. Club (Aug. 31). — W. A. Setchell, ' D. C. 

 Eaton' (portr.). — E. P. Bicknell, 'The Genus Sanicula in the 

 eastern United States.' — J. B. Elhs & B. M. Everhardt, ' New 

 Fungi.' — J. K. Small, ' Botany of South-eastern United States '(1 pi. ). 



Enjthea (Sept. 3). — W. C. Blasdale, ' Fuccinia mirabilissiina '(1 pi.). 



Gardeners' Chronicle (Aug. 81). — Pulypodium trinidadensis Jenm., 

 sp. n. — -(Sept. 7). Catasetnm, ferox Kranzl., sp. n. ; Linospadix 

 Micholitzii Ridley, sp. n. — (Sept. 14). iJendrubiunt sanyuinenm Rolfe, 

 sp. n. — (Sept. 21). Stapelia lonyidens N. E. Br., sp. n. 



Joiirnal de Butanique (Aug. 16, Sept. 1). — C. Sauvageau, Eclo- 

 carpus pusillus, — E. Rose, Chelidoniiun laciniatum. — (Aug. 16). A. 



