LERNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 3 1 



Bentley's ' Manual of Botany,' the continuation of Prof. Scheuk's 

 'Haudbuch,' a second edition of Dr. Behrens's ' Methodisches 

 Lehrbuch,' a small y>rimer by Mr. Bettany, a compilation from 

 other textbooks by Mr. Jolinstone, Signer Calza's ' Elementi,' 

 and an Italian translation of De Bary under the title of 'Manuale 

 di botanica,' a Dutch ' Handleiding ' by Heer Salverda, and 

 M. Crie's ' Nouv. elements.' For field use we have the third 

 English edition of Nave's ' Collector's Handbook,' and Mr. W. P. 

 Mantoii's ' Field Botany, a Handbook for Collectors.' 



Botanical diagrams are closely connected with the works last 

 mentioned. Of these we have Urs. Dodel-Port, a continuation, 

 and an English translation by MciVlpine entitled ' Botanical 

 Atlas ; ' the fifth section of Dr. Kny's diagrams ; and two parts of 

 Zippel and Bollmann's illustrations of German plants. 



The most important achievement in systematic botany is un- 

 doubtedly the completion of Bentham and Hooker's ' Genera * 

 by the issue of the second part of vol. iii., containing the Mono- 

 cotyledons. This has been alluded to in the President's Address ; 

 I have therefore no need to dwell upon it here. The fourth 

 volume of De Candolle's ' Monographise ' has also reached us within 

 the last three weeks : the bulk of the volume is occupied by 

 monographs of the Burseracese and Anacardiacese by Dr. Eugler, 

 and Count Solms-Laubach contributes a revision of the small 

 order Pontederiaceae. The third part of the second volume of 

 Wilson Saunders's ' Eefugium ' has somewhat unexpectedly 

 come out ; it contains descriptions of certain Orchids by Prof. 

 Eeicheubach. Dr. Wawra has commenced to publish the botanical 

 re: ults of the travels of the Prince of Sax-Coburg Gotha, entitled 

 ' Itinera principum S. Coburgi : ' Part i. contains the Mimosese, 

 Lobeliacese, and Bromeliacese. 



Systematic 'works of less extensive scope are those by Mr. 

 Baker on the genus Cyclamen in the Gardeners' Chronicle, Mr. 

 Maw's Remarks on the distribution of Crocus in our Journal, 

 Baron von Mueller's continuation of his monograph of EucalypUis, 

 Prof. Crepin's contribution to a monograph of Bosa in the Bel- 

 gian ' Bulletin,' a monograph by Dr. Urban on Turneracese in 

 Eichler's Yearbook of the Berlin Gardens, and an essay by Prof. 

 Warming on Podostemma in the Copenhagen ' Transactions.' 

 There are two productions which may be cited here as splitting- 

 carried to an inordinate extreme. M. Gandoger has issued ac- 

 cording to his views a monograph of Polifgonum, and his ' Tabuho 

 ruodologicse : ' the latter contaius latin diagnoses of professedly 

 42G8 European species of Rosa. Mr. Baker considers that there 

 are about fifty good species of the genus within the limits of 

 Europe ; so that the species-making here indulged iu is of the 

 wildest kind. 



Amongst Cryptogams, I may give Mr. Spruce's account of 

 CepTialogia amongst the Hepaticse ; an unfinished monograph of 



