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American Naturalist. — C. C. Parry, **Bot. Observations in S. 

 Utah '* (contd., 4 new species.). 



Bot. Notiser {\6th.^Q.j). — J. Suiting, *' Lichen- flora of Bohus- 

 lan " (contd.). — H, von Post, ** Additional Note on the loss of the 

 'leader' in Spruces." — P. Holm, ''Excursion in Lapland and Nor- 

 way."— E. D. Iverus, " Notes." 



Bull. Bot. Soc. Belg. (XIIL, pt. 3, 24th Maj).— E. vander Meersh, 

 " Account of the Society's Excursion to Flanders." — F. Gravet, 

 " Flora Bryologica of Belgium." — D. de Donceel and T. Durand, " Ma- 

 terial for flora of Province of Liege " (pt. 2).— C. H. Delognc, " Con- 

 trib. to Cryptogamic Flora of Belgium." 



New Boohs. — C. B. Clarke, " Commelynacea3 and Cyrtandracece 

 Bengalenses." Calcutta, 1874, fol., 93 plates (10 rupees).— F. C. S. 

 Eoper, "Flora of Eastbourne." London: Yan Voorst, 1875. 8ro. 

 (4s. 6d.) 



The "Trudui" of the S. Petersburg Botanic Gardens for 1874 

 (torn, iii., pt. 1) contains a conspectus of the Russian Viciece by M. 

 Trautvetter, and the second part of the plants collected in Turkestan 

 by Fedschenko and others, with remarks on plants in the Imperial 

 Gardens, including arrangements of Encephalartos and of the Russian 

 Primulas, by Regel. The latter paper is in Latin and German. There 

 is also the Report of the gardens for 1873, which is inRussian. 



J. Eriksson has a memoir on the root-tubercles (rotknolar) of the 

 LeguminoscB^ with 3 plates, in the "Acta" of the University of Lund 

 for 1873 (tom. x). 



The '* Verhandlungen" of the Brandenburg Botanical Society 

 contains papers by Irmisch on Boa sijlvatica^ Guss., with a plafte, by 

 Winkler on Cotyledons, also illustrated ; and by Yatke, on the species 

 oi Plantago in the Berlin herbarium, in which seven new species are 

 described. 



Buchenan has published in the Bremen " Abhandlungen " for 

 1874-5 a paper on the Juncacece. collected by Mandon in Bolivia. 

 He also continues his remarks on the flora of the E. Friesland 

 Islands. 



The Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society has published a 

 new part of its "Transactions." The botanical communications are 

 these. Mr. Amyot contributes an account of the ancient oak at Win- 

 farthing ; the present girth of this tree is 40 feet about the middle of 

 the trunk, in 1744 it was 38 feet 7 inches. There is also a reprint of 

 Sir J. E. Smith's account of several Norwich botanists, in the 7th vol. 

 of the Linnean Society's Transactions. The principal paper is Mr. 

 H. D. Geldart's revised list of the Flowering Plants of the County. 

 The Dicotyledons only are included in this part, arranged by the 

 London Catalogue; the county is divided into four artificial districts, 

 through which each species is traced. Several species are now first 

 published for the county, and the special localities are given for these. 

 The Rev. Kirby Trimmer has worked up the genus Mentha in more 

 detail, the varieties being noticed and localised. It is evident that 

 much is still wanted to be done in other " critical " genera before the 

 list of Norfolk plants is complete. 



Professor Farlow, of Harvard University, has contributed to the 



