380 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



contains a plate of analytical details, of the leaf- structure and the 

 forms of the anthers respectively. The text, hesides the botanical 

 description, affords much information on the distribution, peculi- 

 arities, history, and economic uses of the species. No plan seems 

 to have been formed as to the probable extent of the work ; hence 

 the plates are unnumbered, and can be quoted only by the decade 

 in which they are published, — an unquestionable drawback to 

 ready consultation, and not compensated by the doubtful advantage 

 to the possessor of being able to arrange them in any sequence he 

 pleases. H. T. 



M. Casimir DeCandolle has published in the ' Memoires de la 

 Soc. de Physique et d'Hist. Nat. de Geneve,' a paper on the 

 comparative anatomy of the leaves in certain Dicotyledonous 

 Orders. His observations are restricted to the structure and 

 arrangement of the vascular bundles, and the author has given a 

 list of the large number of species he has examined (under their 

 natural Orders and genera), upon which his results are founded. 

 Two beautifully-executed plates exhibit the very various arrange- 

 ment of the intra-medullary bundles in the petioles or midribs 

 accurately drawn from the author's preparations. 



Mr. A. Bennett, of Croydon, sends us some ' Notes on the Flora 

 of Surrey,' consisting of a tabular list of species found in one or 

 more of the five adjacent counties, not yet observed with certainty in 

 Surrey itself ; excluding maritime species, these are 118 in number. 



M. MicHELi's valuable annual review of the principal memoirs on 

 Physiological Botany is published in the number for 15th Sept., 

 of the Geneva ' Archives des Sciences physiques et naturelles.' 



Other New Books. — A. Foerster, ' Ueber die Polymorphic 

 der Gattung Eubus,' Aachen, 1880 (1 mk. 50 ])/.). — * Botanischer 

 Jalnvsbericht,' 1877, 3rd and concluding part. Berlin, Born- 

 traeger, 1879 (8 wk.). — 0. Comes, ' Illustrazione delle Piante 

 rappresentate nei dipinti Pompeiani.' Napoli, Giannini, 1879. — 

 W. H. Fitch & W. G. Smith, ' Illnstrations of the British Flora.' 

 London, L. Beeve, 1879 (12s.) — S. H. Scudder, ' Catalogue of 

 Scientific Serials of all Countries, including the Transactions of 

 Learned Societies, in the Natural, Physical, and Mathematical 

 Sciences.' Cambridge, U.S.A., 1879. — E. Fries, ' Icones 

 Select£e Hymenomyceturn SueciEe,' vol. ii., pt. 4 (t. 131-140). — 

 FlIickiger & D. Hanbury, ' Pharmacographia,' ed. 2. London, 

 Macmillan. 



Articles in Journals. — October. 



ScottisJi XaturaJht. — Drummend Hay, * Effects of past winter 

 and present summer on hard wooded plants.' — J. Cameron, 

 ' Gaelic names of plants ' (contd.) — F. Buchanan White, ' Pre- 

 liminary list of Fungi of Perthshire.' 



Journ. Lhm. Soc. Tjond. (No. 103). — J. G. Baker, ' Synopsis of 

 Colchicacea and aberrant tribes of LiliaceiB,' 



