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Franchet, ' Plautes nouvelles de la Chine occidentale.' — (Sept. 1). 

 G. Poirault & M. Raciborski, ' Sur les noyaux des Uredin^es.' 



Journ. Linn. Soc. (xxx, No. 211 : Sept. 7). — G. Brebner, ' On 

 the origin of the filamentous thallus of Dumontia filiformis ' (2 pi.). 

 — Id., 'On the mucilage-canals of the Marattiacea ' (1 pL). — J. 

 Miiller, ' Thelotremese et Graphideae novaB.' — Sir J. Lubbock, 

 'On Stipules, their forms and functions.' 



Oesterr. Bot. ZeitscJirift (Sept.). — E. Hackel, Neurachne Muelleri, 

 sp. n. — G. Gjokic, ' Ueber die chemische Beschaffenheit der Zell- 

 bante bei den Moosen.' — J. Rompel, 'Drei Carpelle bei Cryptotmiia 

 canadensis.' — W. Schmiede, ' Beitrage zur alpinen Algeuflora.' — 

 E. Halacsy, ' Zur Flora von Griechenland.' — J. Freyn, ' Plantae 

 Karoanse Dahuricae ' (cont.). 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



We have received an enumeration of French ferns by M. C. de 

 Rey-Pailhade {Les Foiujeres de France : Paris, Dupont), which 

 deserves attention on account of its excellent plates : these are 

 mostly in outline, and represent a frond of each species, reduced, 

 with enlarged and carefully executed details. A good many forms 

 are described, some of them new ; there is a list of synonyms and 

 something like a bibliography for each species, which the entire 

 absence of dates renders of comparatively little value ; and the 

 distribution in France is very fully given. 



The Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information for August (published 

 in September) contains an interesting historical article on the 

 Vanillas of Commerce, by Mr. Rolfe, with descriptions of some 

 new species, extracted from a monograph of the genus which he 

 has prepared for tlie Linnean Society. 



Miss Floeence Woolward's beautiful monograph of MasdevaUia is 

 steadily approaching completion. The seventh part has just appeared, 

 and contains an intimation that the work will be completed with the 

 next number. The conclusion of the English translation of Earner's 

 Pjlanzenlehen is also announced for the end of September, and the 

 regularity with which this has appeared leaves little doubt that it 

 will have been completed by the time these lines are in print. We 

 hope to notice these two important works at an early date. 



We are glad to see that the long-delayed Guide to No. 2 of the 

 Kew Museums has made its appearance. It is devoted to the 

 Monocotyledons and Cryptogams, extends to 109 well-printed 

 pages, and costs only 4d. We presume that we have to thank 

 Mr. J. R. Jackson, who has for so many years been associated with 

 the Kew Museums, for this interesting contribution to economic 

 botany. We regret that another summer has passed without the 

 issue of the authorized Guide to the Gardens. A hand-list of the 

 ferns and fern allies grown at Kew was published in April last. 



The book on the history of gardening in England, on which 

 the Hon. Alicia Amherst has been so long engaged, is announced 

 for publication in November. 



