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botany being quite limited." This is no doubt true in a certain 

 sense ; but the general reader will form a very different and far 

 more flattering estimate of the author's qualifications for the work 

 which he has undertaken. 



We may mention here that we have been from time to time in 

 receipt of articles extracted from Chinese newspapers, which only 

 want of space prevents us from reprinting. These do not seem to 

 be included in the list of Dr. Bretschneider's publications, prefixed 

 to the ' Botanicon Sinicum ' ; and the present seems a suitable 

 opportunity for expressing a hope that the author will one day see 

 his way to issuing those papers, which always contain valuable 

 matter, in a readily accessible form. J. B. 



The recently issued (June) part of the ' Icones Plantarum,, 

 contains figures of four of Mr. Bentham's new genera of grasses, 

 Cryptochloris, Craspedorachis, Scliafnera, and Cleistachne ; Amomum 

 pidchellum of Thwaites (C.P. 2736) stands as the type of a new 

 genus, Cyplwstigma, Benth. ; other new genera are Campylo siphon^ 

 Benth. [BurmanniacecR), Soyauxia, Oliv. [PassiforacecE), and Xoto- 

 buxus, Oliv. [BuxecB.) 



Baeon F. von Mueller has issued the title-page and index for 

 vol xi. of his ' Fragmenta,' with supplementary lists of algse, 

 mosses, lichens, and fungi. 



The ' Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society,' vol. iii., 

 part 3, contains a continuation of Mr. Cedric Bucknall's enume- 

 ration of the fungi of the district (with two plates), and of the 

 'Flora of the Bristol Coal-field' (to the end of Corollljiora). 



Mr. Hemsley's portion of the ' Biologia Central!- Americana ' 

 continues to make rapid progress ; the part issued in June com- 

 pletes the second volume, and concludes the Monopetcdce. 



A COMMITTEE of ' The Arbroath Horticultural and Natural 

 History Association ' has issued a handy list of the Flora of 

 Arbroath and its neighbourhood, which is intended as a field 

 companion and as a preliminary list, on the basis of which it is 

 hoped eventually to frame a complete Flora. We are glad to learn 

 from the preface, that the Kev. John Ferguson and Mr. J. Koy 

 have in preparation ' A Guide to the Botany of the North-east 

 of Scotland.' 



New Books. — A. de Gubernatis, ' La Mythologie des Plantes,' 

 vol. 2 (Paris, Eeinwald.) — B. D. Jackson, ' Vegetable Technology ' 

 (London, Dulau.) — J. Smith, 'Dictionary of Economic Plants' 

 (London, Macmillan.) — P. Saccardo, ' Sylloge Fungorum omnium 

 hucusque cognitorum,' vol. i. Pyrenomycetes (Padua). — E. Stras- 

 burger, ' Ueber den Ban und das Wachsthum der Zellhaute ' (Jena, 

 Fischer). — C. v. Nageli, ' Untersuchungen liber Niedere Pilze ' 

 (Munich, Oldenbourg). — H. Vochting, ' Die Bewegungen der 

 Bliithen und Friichte ' (Bonn, Cohen). — J. Moeller, * Anatomie 

 der Baumrinden ' (Berlin, Springer). 



