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Celakovsky, "On Phyllody of the embryo in Alliaria oMcinalis^^ 

 (tab. 2). 



Flora. — J. MuUer, " Lichenological Contributions." — E. Tucker- 

 man, " Lecidea elahens^ — C. Schumann, *' On the cell- circulation in 

 Closterium LunuW (tab. 2). — C. MuUer, " Manipulus muscorum 

 novorum " (N. America ; 13 new sp.) — 0. Bockeler, '* On the Cyperacece 

 of JS'ew Holland and some Polynesian Islands." (Queensland, A. Die- 

 trich ; Samoa, Fiji and Tonga Is., Graeffe.)— 0. ^N'ordstedt, and L. J. 

 "Wahlstedt, *'Onthe germination of Chara.^^ 



Hedwigia. — P. Magnus, *' Mycological Contributions." — G. v. 



Kiessl, '' On Sphceria caulium, Pr., and S. revelata, B. & Br." G. 



Winter, ^* Hypocreopsis, a new genus oi Pyrenomycetes.''^ 



Oesterr. Bot. ZeiUcTir.—^. v. Messl, " New Spheeriaceous Fungi." 

 — A. Kerner, ** Distrib. of Hungarian plants " (contd.) — V. von Janka, 

 " Species of Marrulium.'''' (if. prcBcox, n.s.) — A. Val de Lievre, " On 

 the Ranunculacece of the Flora Tridentina." (contd.) — A. Oborny, 

 ''On Flora of S. Moravia." (contd.)— F. Bohatsch, "Hungarian 

 localities." — A. Winkler, " Notes on journey in Spain." (contd.) 



Bot. Notiser. (Feb. 15th.)— J. Eriksson, "On the winter buds of 

 Epilohium montanum and roseuyn " (with plate). — K. B. J. Forssell, 

 "Localities." — E. D. Iverus, "Localities." — E. Warming, "Danish 

 Botanical Literature, 1873-74." 



ITew Booh. — J. C. Melliss, "St. Helena, a description of the 

 Island, including its Geology, Fauna, Flora, and Meteorology." 56 

 plates. (S. Peeve, 42s.)— M. C. Cooke, "Fungi, their uses," &c. 

 (King & Co., 6s.)—" Botanischer Jahresbericht," for 1873. Part II., 

 completing the volume. (Berlin, 8s.) 



The third part, just printed, of the 30th volume of the Linnean 

 Society's Transactions, consists wholly of Mr. Bentham's revision of 

 the Suborder Mimosece, a group which has already received much at- 

 tention at his hands during the last thirty years. With a few slight 

 changes of relative position, consequent on the recognition of the im- 

 portance, as a character, of the presence of albumen in the seeds, the 

 29 genera composing the Suborder remain as in the " Genera Planta- 

 rum." Short diagnoses of the distinctive characters of all the known 

 species are given, with full synonymy. Of the 1275 species thus de- 

 scribed, no less than 432 fall under Acacia, 279 under Mimosa, and 

 140 under Inga. An interesting introduction on the structure and 

 geographical distribution of the group, and five plates exhibiting the 

 range of form in the pods of some of the most natural groups, com- 

 plete this valuable contribution to systematic botany. 



A German translation of Rev. J. M. Crombie's article on the 

 Lichen-gonidia question has been published, with notes by Krempel- 

 huber, in the ''Flora." 



A recent number of the " Journal of Horticulture " contains a 

 short account of John Gerarde, the herbalist, in which are several 

 additional facts _^to those hitherto known, including the date of his 



