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Amongst the novelties, the following are of special intei-est : — 

 Oxi/grapMs Shaftoana. 



Bosa Ecce, with yellow flowers, named in compliment to 

 Mrs. Aitchison (Ece). 



Aitcldsonia rosea, the type of a new genus of Rubiaceje. 

 Fertya Aitchisonii, a composite of the tribe Mutisieje, 

 and a member of a genus only known previously from Japan ; 

 also remarkable as being the most western member of the 

 Old-World Mutisieae (if HocJistettena, a genus of doubtful 

 affinity, be excepted). 



Rhododendron, two small -flowered species. 

 Carex jtssirostris, only known before from Marocco. 

 Fingerlmtliia africana, not as yet been found between South 

 Africa and Afghanistan. 

 A flora of Iceland has been published by Ch. Groenlund, of 

 Copenhagen. 



The account by Dr. Asa Gray and Sir Joseph Hooker of 

 the Vegetation of the Rocky-Mountain region, published in the 

 Bulletin of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Suryey of 

 the Territories, has been translated into German. Mr. E. 

 Tuckerman has published the first volume of a synopsis of North- 

 American lichens. Signor Spegazzini on Argentine Eungi, and 

 three fasciculi of the splendid ' Flora brasiliensis ' have come to 

 hand since our last Anniversary ; these contain another portion 

 of the Gramineae by Doell, and tlae Palms by Dr. Oscar Drude. 

 A posthumous work by Hampe on Brasilian Mosses has also 

 come out ; and Dr. Philippi has elaborated a catalogue of all the 

 Ciiilian plants hitherto described. 



The unwearied Baron P. von Mueller has issued a census of 

 the genera of Australian plants, and continued bis important 

 work ' Eucalyptographia,' as previously mentioned. 



Mr. J. Buchanan of Wellington, New Zealand, has brought 

 out a Manual of the Grasses of that colony, Avith 04 plates. 



As to plant-diseases, I may mention the papers by Mr. W. 

 Bidie and Dr. Cooke on the Coftee-leaf disease in our Journal, 

 and the final Report of Mr. Marshall Ward when in Ceylon. 



Prof. M'Nab has given in our Journal an account of his en- 

 deavours to ascertain the species of Arctic drift-wood ; but the 

 results, owing to various causes, were unsatisfactory. 



I have thus endeavoured in the time and space allowed me to 

 run over the chief publications of the last twelvemonth. Num- 

 berless smaller contx'ibutions have been passed by in silence, 

 simply because of the absolute need of severe compression of the 

 subject into a few pages. 



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