NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



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T. MiCEOGYNA, Baker. — Mount Ida. (Journ. Linn Soc xiv t) 

 293.) •••»!• 



XJfiQiXEA. (Albucopsis) angolensis, Baher (Liliace^) —Angola 

 (Journ. Bot., p. 364.) 



U. (Albucopsis) beevipes, ^«X-^r.— Senegambia. (Journ JBot b 

 364.) * ■' ^' 



TJ. (Stphaeissa) mascaeenensis, Balcer. — Madagascar. (Journ Bot 

 p. 363.) 



Utrictjlaeia Endresii, Rchh. f. (Lentibulariacese).— Costa Rica. 

 (Gard. Chron., ii., p. 582.) 



Vatica (Isauxis) Wallichi, Dyer (Dipterocarpeae) — Penang. Wall. 

 Cat., 2018; Maingay, 201. (Journ. Bot., p. 156.) 



YiTis sPECTABiLis, Kwz. (Ampclideae). — Sikkim. (Journ Bot p 

 196.) ■ 



XAXTHOsoiiA (?) MiRABiLE, Mast. (Aroidcae). — Trop. S. America. 

 (Gard. Chron., ii., 258 ; and fig. 53, 54.) 



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Botanischer Jahreslericht : Systematisch geordenetea Repertorium der 

 botanischen Literatur alier Lander ; herausgegeben von Dr. Leo- 

 pold Just. Erster Jakrgang, 1873. Erster Halbband. Berlin 

 1874. 



It is very difficult to estimate the value of a compilation of this 

 kind. Errors of commission may be detected with comparative ease • 

 errors of omission only by careful comparison and much labour. Erom 

 the former Ave think we may say the present work is free, at least from 

 any of a serious character ; and from the latter the editor appears to 

 have guarded himself by obtaining the assistance of about twenty-five 

 coadjutors, who bring special knowledge to his assistance, including 

 names which will command the confidence of all botanists, such as 

 Ascherson, Batalin, Fliickiger, Kny, Mayer, H. Miiller, Peyritsch, 

 Pfitzer, Strasburger, De Tries, and Warming. While the various parts 

 of Gei-many, Russia, Denmark and Holland are represented in this 

 list, Italy, France, and England are conspicuous by their absence. 

 Is it that the number of workers in these countries is so small that 

 they are not worthy to be represented on the staJff ? The proportion 

 of the present *' Heft," occupied by their labours is certainly small ; 

 but then it is only half the promised volume. The work is divided 

 into the following sections : — Cryptogams ; Morphology of the cell ; 

 Morphology of tissues ; Morphology of Coniferge ; Morphology of 

 Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons ; Physical Physiology ; and Che- 

 mical Physiology (the last apparently not completed). Under each 

 head is given the title of works and papers published during 1873, 

 with an abstract of all the most important ones ; a number of these 

 abstracts being signed. At the commencement of most of the sections 



