348 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



America. — Xorth America and West Indies. — Austin, Mrs. R. M. ; 

 Californiau (153). Baiiee, His Excellency F. P.; Honduras (13). 

 Brace, L. J. K. ; Bahamas (185). Cosson, Dr. E.; Mexican (373). 

 Curtiss, A. H. ; Florida (purchased, 200). Davenport, Gr. E. ; 

 Ferns of N. America (9). Farlow, Eaton & Anderson's American 

 AJ(j(c (bO). Fendler, — ; Trinidad Ferns (purchased, 78). Gray, 

 Prof. A. ; various N. American (337). Jardin des Plantes, Paris ; 

 W. Indian (116). Jenman, G. ; Jamaica Ferns (120). Murray, 

 H. B. ; St. Lucia Ferns (77). Pringle, C. G. ; Northern U. States 

 (300). Raven-jl, — ; N. American Fiin/ji (purchased, 200). 



South America. — Balansa, M. ; Paraguay (i^urchased, 2044). 

 Glaziou, A. ; BraziHan (703 j, Grisebach, Prof. ; Argentine (710). 

 Lorentz, Dr. ; Uruguay (purchased, 170). Miers, J. ; South 

 America, various. Veitch, Messrs. ; Kalbreyer's New Grenada 

 (303j. 



Australia and Polynesia. — Bennett, J. J., Executors of the 

 late; continuation of R. Brown's Australian (1,400). Cheeseman, 

 T. F. ; New Zealand (11). Kirk, T. ; New Zealand (26). PoweU, 

 Rev. Thos. ; Samoa (90). Whitmee, Rev. T. J. ; Polynesia (248). 



It will be interesting to place on record here, as evidence of the 

 continually growing interest of botanists in all parts of the world 

 in the Kew Herbarium, the following statement of the total number 

 of distinct contributions, large and small, made to it for each 

 successive year since 1864 :— 1864, 92; 1865, 132; 1866, 110 

 1867, 148; 1868, 165; 1869, 131; 1870, 157; 1871, 131 

 1872, 188; 1873, 186; 1874, 182; 1875, 181; 1876, 193 

 1877, 202 ; 1878, 237. 



Conspectus Florce Europaa. Auctore C. F. Nyman. II. Pomacea 

 — Bicornes. Orebro, Sueciffi, 1879. 



After the interval of a year, we have now a second part of this 

 useful and laborious compendium. From the short introduction 

 given with it we learn that the author has been honoured by the 

 award of the Letterstedt Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy, 

 and that he hopes to bring out a third part before the end of next 

 year. The full notice given of the previous portion renders it 

 unnecessary to say anything here on the plan of the book, but 

 merely to give a few notes on some of the British species in 

 continuation of those then given. 



This part concludes the Bosacefe, and carries on the enumeration 

 to the end of the Kricaceoi. Ft/riis curdata, Desv. (P. communis var. 

 Bri(j(isii, Syme) is maintained as a s]pccies, and so are Circcea 

 intermedia, Daucus (/ummifer, and Gnaphalium norvegicum. So, too, 

 is the perennial Scotch sea-shore Matricaria maritima, and so is 

 Taraxacum palustre. On the other hand, our Physospermum 

 cornuhiense is regarded as but a sub-species of P. aqiiilef/ifoHiwi, 

 nud Arctium intermedium, Bab. ("Angl. Scot." only), is suggested 

 to be a hybrid between A. majus and A. nemorosum,. The Fennel 

 is given as a native of this country and so is Smijrnium Olusatrum, 



