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(figs. 91-93). — (Nov. 16). Masdevallia calyptrata Kranzl.,* sp. n. 

 — (Nov. 28). Cirrhopetaluin Rothschildianum, n. sp. (no authority 

 cited : fig. 102). 



Journal de Boianiqxie (Nov. 1). — A. Franchet, ' Plantes nouvelles 

 de la Chine occidentale ' (cont.). — C. Sauvageau, Dermocarpa hiscay- 

 ensis & Z). straiujulata, spp, nn. — (Nov. 16). E, Bonnet, ' Geographie 

 botanique de la Tunisia ' (cont.). — A. de Coincy, ' Heterospermee 

 de certains Aithionema heterocarpes.' — L. G. de Lamarliere, ' Crypto- 

 games vasculaires du Nord de la France ' (cont.). 



Journ. Linn. Soc. (Botany, xxxi, Nos. 212, 218 : Nov. 4). — D. 

 Brandie, 'An Enumeration of the Dipterocarpacea;' (3 plates). 



Oesterr. But. Zeitschrift (Nov.). — E. V. Halacsy, ' Zur Flora von 

 Griechenland ' (cont.). — J. v. Sterneck, ' Altcturulophus.'' — J. Ulle- 

 pitch, ' Zur Flora von Tatra.' — 'J. Murr, ' Ueber mehrere Kritische 

 Formen der Hieracia.' — J. Freyn, ' Plantas Karoanae ' (cout.). — • 

 K. Schilberszky, ' Biologie der Diatomaceeu.' 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



Dr. Paul Howard MacGillivray, who died in Bendigo, Victoria, 

 on July 9th, and who left Scotland in 1855, was the author of a 

 Catalogue of Aberdeen plants, published in 1853, but does not 

 appear to have followed botanical pursuits in the land of his 

 adoption. He was born at Aberdeen in 1831, his father being 

 Prof. William MacGiilivray, best known to botanists in connection 

 with the one- volume edition of Withering's Botanical Arrangement. 

 The Annals of Scottish Natural History for October (p. 262) gives 

 further particulars. 



Many friends of the late A. G. More wish to see a short memoir 

 of him published. Any one having letters or papers of interest 

 would greatly oblige by lending them for selection to his sister, 

 Miss More, 74, Leinster Koad, Rathmines, Dublin. 



Dr. H. Marshall Ward has been appointed to succeed the late 

 Prof. Babington as Professor of Botany at Cambridge. 



We have received the first part of the Synoptical Flora of North 

 America, which includes the orders RanuncidacetB to Frankeniacece. 

 We are glad to observe that it has not been thought necessary to 

 adapt the nomenclature to the newest transatlantic fashions ; in 

 this matter Dr. Robinson, the editor of the part, has followed the 

 traditions of Asa Gray and Sereno Watson, whose names appear as 

 authors, and who elaborated many of the orders. We hope to 

 notice the work at greater length. 



Dr. Otto Kuntze has reprinted from Le Monde des Plantes an 

 interesting paper on " Les Besoins de la Nomenclature Botanique," 

 in the course of which he discusses the possibility of a Congress on 

 the subject to be held in Paris in 1900, and to be followed by a 

 " Nomenclator Plautarum Omnium," to be edited by himself, 

 appearing in 1905. 



* Nfime also spelt " echjptrata'^ on same page. 



