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living and fossil allied Anacardiacew, aud a contribution to the knowl- 

 edge of the Aracecc. The third volume, parts 2 and 3, of Eeichenbach's 

 Xcnia Orchldacea has been published this year. A Syiiopsls of the Genus 

 Fitcairnia is given by Baker in the Journal of Botany. The Bot. Cen- 

 tralblatt contains a bibliography of the works relating to Russian 

 plants, Fontes Florce Bossiccc, by Herder. Gronlund's Islands Flora 

 contains descriptions of the phoenogams and vascular cryptogams, and 

 a list of the remaining cryptogams of Iceland. Buchenau has published 

 a, Flora of the Islands of Fast Friesla?id; a posthumous second part of 

 Visiaui's Flora Dalmatica has appeared; a comparative study of the 

 floras of Vesuvius and ^tna is given by Baccarini in the Giornale Bo- 

 tanico; Ascherson in th& Bot. Centralblatt describes plants from the 

 north of Africa ; Willkomm has continued his Illustrationes Floras His- 

 panke; Celakovsky has issued a, Frodromns of the Flora of Bohemia; 

 Hieronymus has published an account of phmts collected in Patagonia 

 under the title of Sertum Patagonicum. The Eeliquiw Rutenherglana:, an 

 account of the phoenogams and cryptogams collected by Dr. Eutenberg 

 in Madagascar, was elaborated by Buchenau, Engler, Haussknecht, J. 

 Miiller, Kornicke, and others, the greater part of the orders having 

 been treated by Buchenau. 



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Die Pfanzenmischlinge, byFocke, is tin elaborate treatise on hybrids, 

 of 519 pages, giving a catalogue of known hybrids and an account of 

 their origin, peculiarities, and nomenclature. A new pubbcation has 

 appeared under the charge of Professor Eichler, called Jahrbilcher des 

 Idniglichen botanischen Gartens, which includes a history of the Botanical 

 Garden at Berlin, with a description ot recent improvemeuts, together 

 with original papers by the botanists attached to the garden, the most 

 important of which have been noticed under the proper headings. A 

 bibliographical work, entitled a Guide to the Literature of Botanij, by B. 

 D. Jackson, has been published in London, and includes 4,000 titles not 

 given in Pritzel's Thesaurus. The Traitede hotanique of Fvof. Ph. Van 

 Tieghem, of Paris, of which the earlier parts have appeared this year, 

 is to form, when complete, a volume of about 1,300 pages. The Botani- 

 cal CoUector''s HandyhooJij by Prof. W. W. Bailey, is the third of the 

 Naturalists' Handy Series, published by G. A. Bates, of Salem, Mass., 

 and contains full directions for collecting both phsenogams and crypto- 

 gams. 



