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followed by full descriptions of the species, many of which are new, 

 with remarks as to peculiarities, distribution, &c. The total number 

 of species included is 130, of which 47 are native (39 being endemic) 

 and 83 introduced, mostly from Europe. The memoir is illustrated 

 by 110 excellent figures, and ends with a "catalog of numbers 

 cited." 



The Phanerogams of the Juan Fej^iandez Islands is reprinted 

 by Dr. Carl Skottsberg (Ahnquist, Upsala) from the second volume 

 on the natural history of those islands. It contains a large number 

 of new species, ver}^ fu^Hj described, and a new hybrid genus of 

 Kosacese — Margyraccena, — " the result of natural crosses between the 

 native Margyricapus and the introduced Accena argenteay There 

 ib a chapter on the composition and character of the indigenous flora, 

 a separate list of introduced species, and a bibliograph}^ ; the text 

 contains numerous figures of dissections and there are eleven plates. 

 The pamphlet is very attractively produced. 



To the Gardeners' Chronicle for July 15 Sir FreJeiick Moore 

 contributes an "appreciation" (with portrait) of Mr. William 

 Watson, who has recently retired from the curatorship of the Koj^al 

 Gardens, Kew ; Major T. F. Chipp. B.Sc, has been appointed 

 Assistant-Director of the Gardens. Mr. C. Harman Payne is pub- 

 lishing in the Chronicle (beginning July 23) a series of papers on 

 " The History of the Moss Rose," in which he criticises somev.diat 

 severely the paper by Major Hurst, published in Journ. 11. Hort. Soc. 

 xlvii. part 1. The number for Aug. 5 contains continuations of the 

 account of Mr. Kingdon Ward's sixth expedition in Asia and of 

 Ml*. N. E. Brown's papers on Ilesemhryanthum and allied genei-a ; 

 in the present instalment species of Conophyfuni are figured and 

 described. 



Vol. tx. no. 2 of the Becords of the Botanical Survey of India 

 is devoted to new Buphorhiacece from the Malay Peninsula, which 

 are described by Mr. A. T. Gage in great detail, each description 

 approaching or even exceeding a page in length. In such cases a 

 short diagnosis, presenting the salient points of difference, should, we 

 think, be given, or at least that these should be italicized in the 

 descriptions. 



The Memoires de la Societe Oeologique de Belgiqve (February) 

 contains papers by A. Gilkinet on the " Flore fossile des Psammitesdu 

 Condroz (Devonien superieur) " (13 pi.) and " Plantes fossiles de 

 I'argile plastique d'Anclenne " (4 pi.). 



The Orchid Beview for August contains an interesting paper by 

 Mr. Oakes Ames, of the Bussey Institution, Harvard, " On the 

 Capacity of Orchids to sm-vive in the Struggle for Existence," 

 based on their appearance on Krakatau after its devastation in 

 1883. 



De. Watson's " Key to the Determination of Lichens in the 

 Field," published with this Journal for June and July, has been 

 reprinted in pamphlet form and may be obtained from the publishers, 

 price 26". net, post free. 



