bZ NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



We draw attention to Part i. of the ' Flora of the Bristol Coal- 

 field,' edited by Mr J. W. White, which is appearing in the 

 Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, because — by the 

 sensible action of the Society — separate cojDies can be obtained 

 of the Hon. Secretary, 47, Hampton Park, Redland, Bristol, at the 

 small cost of a shilling. Mr. Bucknall's paper on British Fungi, 

 with three plates and descriptions of two new species — Ar/ariciis 

 electicus and Peziza fiKjiens — may be had for the same sum. In this 

 way such papers are rendered accessible to many besides the 

 members of the local Society, and we commend this example to 

 our Northampton friends, whose Journal is practically confined to 

 members. We note that Thia.spi alpestre, first published as a 

 Somerset plant in om* volume for 1881 (p. 174), is here recorded 

 from two other localities in that county — near Sidcot, and on 

 Mendip, not far from Cheddar. 



We have received from Messrs. Cassell the second series of 

 ' Familiar Wild Flowers,' of which Mr. Hulme is the illustrator, 

 while Mr. Shirley Hibberd supplies the letterpress. Our criticisms 

 upon the first series (Journ. Bot., 1881, p. 58) apply in the main 

 to the present volume. The letterpress is extremely poor, and in 

 some cases has little connection with the figures : and we can 

 assure Mr. Hibberd that scientists are by no means insensible to 

 beaut}", as he seems to imply when he speaks of some plants as 

 not being " ugly enough to i^lease the botanists." Some of Mr. 

 Hulme's figiu-es are pretty, so far as they go, but many are very 

 scrappy, and some — e.g., Lathynis latifolius — scarcely recognisable. 



Articles in Journals. 



Botanical Gazette (Jan.) — E. J. Hill, ' FAeocharis dispar,' n. sp. 

 — G. Engelmann, ' Notes on Western Conifers ' {Pinus rejiexa, n. sp.) 

 — Id., 'Additions to North American Flora' (Stellaria obtusa, Cam- 

 panula planijivra, Eriogonum. alpinum, J uncus canaliculatus). — 

 J. G. Lemmon, ' Woochia Plummera;,' n. sp. 



Botanische Zeitumj (Dec). — A. Meyer, * On the Structure of 

 Starch-granules' (1 tab.). — (Jan. 6). — L. Just, ' Phyllosyphon 

 Arisari ' (1 tab.) 



Hediviyia (Dec). — P. A. Karstan, ' Fungi novi.' — C. A. J. A. 

 Oudemans, ' Agaricus Starin(jii,' n. S23. 



Mayyar Novenytani Lapok (Dec). — J. Pantocsek, 'New Bosnian 

 plants' [Symphyandra Hofinanni, Corydalis Stummeri, Salvia Sonklari). 

 — J. Jako, ' On the evolution of the stomates of Stapelia variegata 

 and S. trijida.' — A. Kanitz, ' Plantas Romaniae hucusque cognitae 

 (concluded). 



Midland Xaturali^t (Jan.). — J. E. Bagnall, 'Flora of Warwick- 

 shu*e ' (continued). 



Qilsterr. But. Zeitschrift (Jan.). — J. Freyn, Memoir of H. M. 

 Willkomm (with portrait). — H. Braun, ' Rosa Hirciana, n. sp.' 

 (Croatia). — F. A. Hazslinszky, ' Peltidium and Geoylvssum,.' — W. 0. 

 Focke, 'Hybrid Plants' {Epilubium, Anayallis, Digitalis). — P. Sin- 

 tenis, ' Cyprus and its Flora' (continued).— P. G. Strobl, ' Flora of 

 Etna' (continued). 



