64 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



Flora. — K. Prantl, 'On the arrangement of the cells in the 

 flask-shaped prothallia of Ferns' (continued). — P. G. Strobl, * On 

 the flora of the Nebrodes' (continued), (Equisetum lonf/evaninatiim, 

 n. sp.) — S. Schulzer, ' The genus Damnospurium, Corda.' 



Oesterr. Bat. Zeitschr. — J. Pantocsek, ' TrifoUum Haynaldia- 

 niim, n. sp.' — W. Voss, ' Mycological notes from Carinthia.' — 

 L. V. Vukotinovic, * Notes on Croatian flora ' [Astrantia croatica, 

 Tommas., n. sp.) — Von Borbas, 'Botanical notes.' — S. Schulzer, 

 ' Mycological notes ' (Kalchbrenneria, n. gen.) — J. Wiesner, 'The 

 cycle of matter in the plant-world' (continued). — K. F. Solla, 

 ' Flora of neighbourhood of Gorz ' (continued). 



GreviUea. — M. C. Cooke & J. B. Ellis, 'New-Jersey Fungi.' — 

 H. L. Smith, 'New Diatoms.' — 'Notes on Piehm's Ascomycetes.' — 

 M. C. Cooke, 'Himalayan Fungi.' — P. A. Karsten, 'Fungi novi 

 in Fennia detecti.' — P. T. Cleve & F. Kitton, 'New Diatoms.' — 

 C. B. Plo Wright, ' Californian SpluEvicc.' — W. Phillipps, ' Hygro- 

 vhoriisfcctens, n. sp.' 



American Xat. — J . M. Anders, ' The beneficial influence of plants. ' 



Matjyar Nov. Lajiok-. — F. Porcius, ' On some incorrectly named 

 mountains in the Enum. PI. Naszod.' — F. de Janka, 'Travels in 

 Turkey' (II. Tirnova, Sipka-Balkan, Kalofer). 



Botaniska Xotiser (Dec. 16). — N. Wille, ' On swarm-cells of 

 Trentepohlia and their copulation' (tab. 1). — 0. Nordstedt, 'Algo- 

 logical notes' (tab. 2). — A. P. Winslow, ^ Potamogeton trichoides, 

 Ch. & Schl., found at Goteborg.' 



Joiirn. Linn. Sac. Land. (no. 100, Dec. 31). — E. Abbay, ' Ob- 

 servations on Hemileia vastatriv, the so-called coffee-leaf disease' 

 (tab. 13, 14). — G. Bentham, 'Notes on FAiphorhiacea.'' — L. A. 

 Bernays, ' On the existence of Carjiesium cernuum in Queensland.' 



Botanual Nttos^. 



De. Urban has been aj^pointed First Assistant in the Botanic 

 Gardens at Berlin, vice K. Koch; and M. Kurtz Second Assistant, 

 in place of W. Vatke. 



The death of Dr. J. B. M. Eipart occurred at Bourges, on 

 October 17th, at the age of sixty-four. He was a student of the 

 Roses of France, and of Freshwater Algae. 



Dr. J. E. Lebel died on November 17th, at Valogne, Manche. 

 He w^as well known as a critical worker at the flora of Normandy, 

 and has published several papers of value, including a monograph 

 of Callitriche in the Memoires of the Cherbourg Society of Nat. 

 Science for 1863. 



We have also to record the death of Louis Bouton, Curator of 

 the Colonial Museum and Secretary to the Royal Society of Mau- 

 ritius. He was the author of ' Plantes Medicinales de Maurice,' 

 1857 (a second edition in 1864), and an active collecting botanist. 



