300 Neue Litteratur. 



Systematik und Pflanzengeographie: 



Altmaun, Flora von Wriezen. (Programm des Realprogymnasiums zu Wriezen.) 

 40. 25 pp. Wriezen 1886. 



Bailey, Fredk. Manson, Synopsis of the Queensland Flora. First Supple- 

 ment. Brisbane 1886. 



Baillon, H., Histoire des plantes: Monographie des Aristolochiacees, Cacta- 

 cdes, Mesembryanthemacees et Portulacacees. 80. 84 pp. avec 100 fig. Paris 

 (Hachette et Cie.) 1886. 4 fr. 



Brown, N, E. , Anthurium subulatum N. E. Br. n. sp. (The Gardeners' 

 Chronicle. New Ser. Vol. XXVI. 1886. No. 660. p. 230.J 



, Anthurium Mooi'eanum N. E. Br. n. sp. (1. c.) 



Hüttig, Ein Beitrag zur Flora von Zeitz. (Programm des Königl. Gymnasiums 

 zu Zeitz.) 40. 36 pp. Zeitz 1886. 



Meigeu, W., Flora von Wesel. (Programm des Gymnasiums zu Wesel.) 8". 

 44 pp. Wesel 1886. 



Müller , Ferdinand Baron von , Plauts collected in Capricornic We.stern 

 Australia by H. S. King and recorded by Baron Ferd. v. Müller. (Royal 

 Society of Victoria. July 9th 1886.) 80. 9 pp. Melbourne 1886. 6 Pence. 



• — — , iJefinitions of some new Australian Plauts. (From Wing's Southern 

 Science Record. Vol. II. New Ser. May, 1886.) 



[Calocephalus Dittrichii. 

 Myriocephalus Dittrichii (F. v. M. coli.). 

 Annual, woolly-tomentose, neither tall nor much branched ; leaves 

 scattered, linear, blunt, nearly flat or somewhat channelled, slightly 

 broader at the base ; glomerules rather small, terminal, solitary, de- 

 pressed-globular , the summit of the branchlets forming offen a short 

 peduncle ; general involucre not exceeding the glomerule, constituted 

 of several rows of bracts; the latter green, narrow, woolly and termi- 

 nated by a minute scarious yellow glabrous ovate-or cordate-roundish 

 lamina ; general receptacle small , not conspicuous elevated , bearing 

 numerous flowerheads; bracts constituting the ultimate involucres 

 several , oblong-or linear cuneate , hyaline , one-nerved , woolly only 

 under the small yellow roundish radiating lamina ; flowers minute, 

 11 — 24 in each head; corolla slender , gradually widening upwards ; 

 achenes truncate-ellipsoid, subtle-papillular ; pappus very tender, white, 

 formed of very few laxely plumous-bearded somewhat intiücate bristles, 

 these at the summit slightly tufted, at the very base connate. 



Near Charlotte-Waters ; Lieutenant D i 1 1 r i c h ; collected during 

 Mr. Lindsay's Expedition. 



The specimens seen about hand-high. Leaves i/3 — -/3 inch long, the 

 lowest early evanescent. Clusters of flowerheads about half an inch 

 broad. General receptacle crowded with the pei-sistent woolly involu- 

 cral bracts. Flowerheads with their proper bracts singly separable ; 

 the latter hardly exceeding the corollas, appressed. Neither stamens 

 nor Stigmas exserted. Achenes palebrown, nearly all ripening. 



Among congenei-s this well marked species finds its place noarest 



to C. Francisii , differing however already in external feature , in the 



extensive vestiture, in glomerules coustantly broader than long, in more 



developed general involuci-e and bright appendages of the ultimate 



involucral scales. Some relationship to the genua Myriocephalus is 



indicatcd by the copiousness of the empty involucrating bracts of the 



glomerule. On superficial inspection this plant might easily be passed 



as an Angianthus or Craspedia, especially as it was found accompanied 



by a small variety of C. pleiocephala.) 



Ravaud, Guide du botaniste dans le Dauphine. Excursions bryologiques et 



lichenologiques, suivies pour chacune d'herborisations phanerogami(jues, oü 



il est traite des propriotes et des usages des plantes au poiut de vue de 



la medecine, de l'industrie et des arts. 8. — lOe excursions. 80. 27, 48 pp. 



Grenoble (Drevet) 1886. 



Verlot, Bernard, Le guide du botaniste herbonsant. Conseils sur la recolte 



des plantes, la preparation des herbiers, l'exploration des stations de plantes 



