318 Neue LiUeratur. 



Discovery Expedit.. II., 14) met ilie tirst western Banksia, perhaps B. 

 media, at Point Dover; tberefore, still a degree further east than tbe 

 lonpitude in whicli B. Elderiana appeared. B. viarginata does not seeni 

 to penetrate westward beyond Marble Range, 30 miles N. W. from Port 

 Lincoln. 

 Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, Descriptions of new Australian plauts, 



witb occasional aunotations. [Continued] (Extra print from the Victorian 



Katuralist, July, 1893.) 

 Acacia Rosset. 



Glabrous, but somewbat glutinous; phyllodea crowded yet scattered, 

 ratber sbort, linear, curvedly sbort-pointed, slightlj' verrucular-rougb, 

 almost doubly tbickened along the median iine ; stipiiles comparatively 

 long, capillulary- or linear-setaceous ; headlets of tlowers ou corymbouslj' 

 crowded stalks of evidently greater lengtb, placed betvveen stipules and 

 diminutive leaves; bracts broadish belou, thence gradually mucb pointed, 

 se.ssile or stipitate; segments «f the calyx tive, linear-spoonsbaped, about 

 half as long as the coroUa, separated to their base ; fruits compressed, 

 elongate elliptic, tbeir valves bard, outside densely beset with dark-brown 

 membranous erisped excrescences ; seeds placed transversely. 



In the interior of South-Western Australia ; communicated by Mr. W. 

 W ebb. 



Branchlets mostly elongated, somewbat verrucular-rougb, long retaining 

 the stipules, the latter reminding of some such plants as Pultenaeas. 

 Seeds not obtaiued, bnt from the shallow cavities on the inner side of 

 the valves their position could not have been longitudinal. When the 

 tricentennial jubilee of the Dublin-Univeisity took place some nionths 

 ago, the bonour was sbown to the writer of sending to him an iuvitation 

 for sharing in that significant festival ; thus a wish then arose, uow fullilled, 

 to connect in cominemoration of that scientific event the name of the 

 illustrious Chani-ellor of that venerable seat of learning, the Ea rl of K o s se, 

 K P., with some rare member of the Australian fioral world for a perpetual 

 living record also here of the astronomic renown, which bis Lordship 

 inherited and so briiliantly sustains, and also to pay some homage to 

 the great Services in the cause of the principal Irisb University by both 

 tbese great astronomers. No other of fully 300 species of Australian 

 Acacias has the almost lamellar cuticular desquamation of the outer side 

 of the fruitvalves ; otherwise our new one Stands systematically nearest 

 to A. Bynoeana and A. conferta; but the former has more spreading and 

 less quadrangular phyllodes, almost sessile headletsj short-lobed calyces 

 and curved narrow fruits, while tlie last mentioned species shows shorter 

 flatter as well as proportionately broader phyllodes of greater breadth ; 

 moreover j'onder both belong to other geographic regions, and neither of 

 the two has conspicuous stipules, in which respect A. Rossei approaches 

 A. cedroide.s. 

 Mueller, Ferdinand, Baron von, lllustrated description of Thistles etc., 



iuchuled within the provisious of the Thistle act of 1890. (Department of 



Agriculture, Victoria, 1893.) 8". 20 pp. 9 col. plat. Melbourne (Brain) 



1893. 

 Rolfe, R. A., Oncidiuni Saintlegeriauum Kolfe. (The Gardeners Chronicie. 



Ser. III. Vol. XIII. 1893. p. 194.) 

 Saclenx, R. P., Note sur un Arduina k fleurs t6tram6res. (Journal de Botanique. 



VII. 1893. p. 311.) 

 Seers, F. >V., Touring in Kumaon. (The Gardeners Chronicie. Ser. HI. Vol. 



XIV. 1893. p. 206.; 



Palaeontologie : 



Bjorlikke, K., Postglaciale plantefossiler. (Naturen. XVII. 1893. p. 51.) 

 €on>ventz, H., Zwei neue Trapa-Lager in Westpreussen. (Sejj.-Abdr, aus 



Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift. VIII. 1893. No. 34.) 

 — — , Die Wassernuss. (1. c. No. 32.) 



Teratologie und Pflanzenkrankheiten: 

 Cooke, M. C, Antliracuose of the viue. (The Gardeners Chronicie. Ser. III. 

 Vol. XIV. 1893. p. 33.) 



