34 PUOCEEUINOS OF THE 



in his account of Fedschcnko's travels in Turkestan. M. Pierre's 

 'Flore forestiere de la Cochincliine ' has reached its fourth fas- 

 ciculus. In Malayan botany we find Dr. Engler has described 

 Si<inor Beccari's Aracea; ; and Dr. Nylander and Eev. M. J. 

 Crombie have dealt with the Lichens collected by the late Dr. 

 Maingay. 



In the New World, Dr. Asa Gray has given the results of his 

 recent studies in some of the most important European herbai-ia 

 (the Linnean herbarium amongst them) of Aster and Solidi/f/o. 

 Prof. Sereno Watson has also continued his remarks under a 

 similar title to Dr. Gray's, viz. ' Contributions to American Bo- 

 tany.' L. F. Ward has produced a Flora of Washington; Kellogg, 

 on the forest-trees of California. 



Mr. Hemsley has completed his second volume, and entered upon 

 the thii'd, of the Botany of Godmau and Salvin's ' Biologia Cen- 

 tral!- Americana.' 



Dr. Urban has published some remarks on South- American 

 Flora, besides the Brazilian, in 'Linnaea,' describing some of Dr. 

 Glaziou's plants. From Dr. P. Sagot we have also a Catalogue 

 of French-Guyana plants; and from Senior F. Philippi the first 

 part (nearly 400 pages) of his Catalogue of Vascular Plants of 

 Chili ; this part contains many newly described species. Dr. 

 Masters, in the pages of our own Journal, has described the 

 Passifloraceo) of Ecuador and New Granada collected by M. Andre. 

 Bresadola has continued his ' Fungi tridentini novi,' fasc. 2 & 3 

 haviug lately seen the light. 



From Australia we have recently received a Systematic Census 

 of the plants occurring in that part of the world, drawn up by 

 the indefatigable Baron von Mueller. A contribution to our 

 knowledge of New-South-Walea Lichens has also been published 

 in our Transactions by Mr. C. Knight. 



My last book on local botany comes from New Zealand, on the 

 Ferns and Fern-allies of that colony, and is by Mr. G. M. 

 Thomson. 



The concluding section consists of work done in economic 

 botany. Prof. Fliickigcr has issued the second edition of his 

 * Pharmacognosis des Pflanzenreiches ; ' and a Danish book on 

 the same topic has been published by S. Eiitzon. Dr. Luerssen 

 has completed his admirable ' Medicinisch-pharmacographisches 

 Lehrbuch ' with the twenty-first number, and has begun a new 

 work dealing with German oflaciual plants. Prof. Fliickigcr has 

 written again on Cinchona barks ; wliilst the remarks of Heer 

 Van Gorkom have also been translated into English. Prof. Oude- 

 mans has published a book in Dutch on economic plants ; and 

 Heer Bischof Grevelink, likewise in Dutch, on the useful plants 

 of the Nethcrland East Indies. 



Amonst sundry publications which are hard to classify, are the 

 tenth series of Noerdlinger's Sections of Woods, Mr. John Smith's 



