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of these plants is of various degrees in diiferent species. This induces 

 the writer of these lines, to draw the attention of the many gentle- 

 men , conversant in chemistry and living near " Saltbush-country ", to 

 the desirability of subjecting the various species to exact chemical 

 analysis, so that for the soon needful methodic rural sowings of these 

 plants only the best sorts may be chosen. Added is the description 

 of a new and evidently valuable species , discovered by Mr. W. H. 

 C r n i s h during a recent survey-expedition. 



Bassia Cornishiana (Chenolea Cornishiana, F. v. M. collect.) 

 White-tomentose ; leaves flat, cuneate-obovate ; flowers solitary ; styles 

 two ; spines of the fruit-calyx five to six, subulate, tomentose towards 

 the base, two or three about as long as the tube of the calyx, the rest 

 considerably longer, one sometimes diminutive; seed not much de- 

 pressed, placed horizontally. 



In the vicinity of the Field-River, near the boundary line between 

 Queensland and South-Australia, in the sub-tropic region. 



Branchlets rather robust; leaves half an inch or less long, in age 

 not so densely tomentose as the other parts of the plant ; fruit-spines 

 very spreading, the largest about two lines long; vertex of the fruit 

 depressed. 



In its white vestiture and in the form of the fruit-spines, this species 

 i-esembles B. bicornis; but in its broad leaves and the number of the 

 spines it is very distinct.] 

 Reiclieubach, H. G. fll., Thrixispermum indusiatum n. sp. (The Gardeners 



Chronicle. New Series. Vol. XXV. 1886. No. 645. p. 585.) 

 llidley, H. N., Orchids of Madagascar. (Journal of the Linneau Society 



London. Botany. 1886. April 14.) 

 Thomas, F., Notizen zur Flora von Engstlenalp. (Sep.-Abdr. aus Mittheilungen 

 des botanischen Vereins für Gesamrat-Tbüringen. Bd. IV. 1886. p. 89 — 92.) 

 Vandas , K. , Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Flora Wolhyniens. (Oester- 



reichische Botanische Zeitschrift. XXXVI. 1886. No. 5. p. 155.) 

 Yasey, Q., New American Grasses. (Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 New York. 1886. No. 4.) 



Teleuovsky, J., Vylet na Vitos. [Ein Ausflug auf den Vitosch im Balkan.] 



.(Vesmir. Prag. 1886.) 

 Woloszczak, Eustacli, Ein für Galizien neuer Cytisus. (Oesterreichische 

 Botanische Zeitschrift. XXXVI. 1886. No. 5. p. 150.) 



Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten : 



Kroiifeld, M., Studien zur Tei'atologie der Gewächse. I. (Sep.-Abdr. aus 

 Verhandlungen der k. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 1886.) 

 80. 22 pp. und 1 lith. Tfl. Wien (Holder) 1886. 



Thomas, Fr,, Teratologisches von Engstlenalp. (Sep.-Abdr. aus Mittheilungen 

 des botanischen Vereins für Gesanimt-Thüringen. Bd. IV. 1886.) 



Medicinisch-pharmacentisclie Botanik : 



Barkiim, Josias, Ein Fall von Actinomykosis hominis unter dem Bilde einer 



Infectionskrankheit verlaufend. [Inaug.-Diss.] 80. 19 pp. Kiel 1886. 

 Laurent, Les microbes du sol. (Bulletin de l'Academie royale de Belgiquo. 



1886. No. 2.) 

 Morawitzky, S., Narkotische und einige andere in Ferghana gebräuchliche 

 giftige Mittel. (Arbeiten der Naturforscher - Gesellschaft an der Kaiserl. 

 Universität Kasan. Bd. XV. Heft 2.) 8». 27 pp. Kasan 1885. [Russisch.] 



[Diese orientalischen Betäubungsmittel, deren Droguen sich sämmt- 

 lich im Museum des Kais, botanischen Gartens zu St. Petersbui-g be- 

 finden, zerfallen in 1) Präparate aus Cannabis sativa L., 2) Präparate 

 aus Papaver somniferum L. , 3) Präparate aus Datura Stramonium L., 

 4) Präparate aus Hyoscyamus niger L., 5) Präparate aus Strychnos nux 

 vomica L.]*) v. Herder (St. Petersburg). 



*) Vergl. darüber die Notiz in A. v. Middendor ff's Einblicke in das 

 Ferghana-Thal. St. Petersburg 1881. p. 241-242. 



