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overcrowding. The disease appears to be more prevalent on the east 

 coast than in the west of Scotland. — ''Notes on the Ferns of the 

 Brisbane district, Queensland." By Robert Grieve, Brisbane. Com- 

 municated by D. Grieve, P.R.S.E. The author gave a general 

 account of the ^various species (about 55) which he has obcserved and 

 collected during his excursions through the rich forests of the country. 

 Specimens were exhibited. 



25otamcal ^tW. 



^Articles in Journals. — January, 1875. 



Scottish Naturalist. — Drummond Hay and Buchanan White, 

 " Notes of Bot. Excursion to Breadalbane Mts., Perthshire'' (Arabis 

 petreea, Kohresia carivi7ia). — F. Buchanan White, "Edible wild fruits 

 of Scotland." 



Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. — Berkeley and Broome, " Notices of 

 British Fungi" (Nos. 1402-1500. Many new species. 2 tab.). 



Quart. Journ. Microsc. Science. — W.Archer, ''On Apothecia oc- 

 curring in some Scytonematous and Sirosiphonaceous Algae in addition 

 to those previously known" (with tab.). 



American Naturalist. — C. C. Parry, " Bot. Observations in S. Utah 

 in 1874." 



Hedwigia. — P. Magnus, " On Exoascus Populij Thm." — F. v. 

 Thiitnen, " Napicladium, a new genus of Hyphomycetes." — Id., " Oa 

 some new Saprolegnice.''^ — M. C. Cooke, " Synopsis Helvellaceorum 

 Pileatorum." 



Flora. — L. Celakovsky, " Two questions in botanical nomencla- 

 ture." — W.Nylander, "Addenda nova adLichenographiam Europseam" 

 {Xylographalanicola, n.s. Ben Lawers, Crombie). — S. Kurz, " Descrip- 

 tions of four new Indian Euphorbiaceae." 



Bot. Zeitung. — J. Tschistiakoff, " On development of spores and 

 of pollen." 



Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. (15th Jan ) — A. Krempelhuber, " Lichenes 

 in Borneo and Singapore ab 0. Beccari lecti " (164 species, 105 new. 

 Tab. 1 and 2). — P. Parlatore, " New Italian plants " ( Viola Eugenice, 

 Cerastium Apuanum). — 0. Beccari, "Observations on some Raffle- 

 siacece.^^ 



Bot. Tidsskrift (ser. 2, vol. iv., pt. i.).— J. Lange, " Description 

 of new plants in the Copenhagen Botanic Garden " {Erodium primu- 

 laceunij Welw., Bouchea incrassata, Erechiites Muelleri, Rumex crystal- 

 linus. Tab. 1-4).— E. Rostrup, " On the genetic relationship between 

 Puccinia Molinice and ^cidium Orchidearum.''^ — 0. S. Peteisen, " On 



