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on the Open-air Vegetation at the Royal Botanic Gardens," by- 

 James M'Kab. He stated that the foliage was everywhere well de- 

 veloped, most of the late summer flowering trees having been generally 

 at their best about June 5th. The common white elder had been 

 particularly fine ; but this tree was now becoming a perfect nuisance 

 all over the country, extending itself over wooded lands and 

 gardens, and smothering many good evergreen shrubs. The dwarf or 

 deciduous shrubby plants had been flowering very freely during June, 

 and owing to the dry weather the herbaceous and alpine plants, par- 

 ticularly the inhabitants of the rock garden, had come very rapidly 

 forward, though, with certain exceptions, the flowering had been of 

 short duration. — *' On Schizopteris adnascens ofLind. and Hutton, from 

 the Grange Quarry, near Burntisland, Fifeshire," by C. W. Peach. 

 — '' Indian Woods and Gum-Eesins, with their application to Useful, 

 Ornamental, and Decorative Pui-poses. The ^yoods and Resins of 

 Scotland and Ireland compared with the above," by Alexander 

 Hunter. 



25atanical ^tW* 



Articles in Journals. — June. 



Grevillea. — M. J. Berkeley, ** !N'otices of IN". American Fungi" 

 (contd.). — r. Hazslinszky, ''Hungarian Geasters" (tab. 47). — W. A. 

 Leighton, '* Lichenological Memorabilia." — J. De Segncs, *'0n 

 Agaricus ascophonis'^ (tab. 46). — M. C. Cooke, *'0n Corticium 

 Oakesii, B. & C."— Id., ''British Fungi" (contd.).— J. Stirton, 

 " Parmelia Millaniana^ a rejoinder." — W. Phillips, " On Peziza 

 ftiscescens, Pers." 



America7i Naturalist. — C. C. Parry, "Botanical Observations in 

 S. Utah " (contd., 7 new species). 



Montlilij Microsc. Journ. — E,. Braithwaite, " Sphagnum laricinum, 

 Spruce (tab. 105), S. Pijlaiei, Brid. (tab. 106)." 



Bot. Zeitung. — A. de Bary, " On the Germination of Chara '' 

 (tab. 5, 6). — J. Keinke, " Note on the Growth of Unorganised Cells.' 



Flora. — H. Wawra, "Botany of Hawai Is." (concld. Liliacem^ 

 PandanecE, &c.). — C. Kraus, "Investigations in Plant Physiology" 

 (contd.). — 0. Bockeler, "Diagnoses of New Cyperacece.'' — Uloth, 

 *' On the Germination of Seeds in Ice." — Christ, "New and Note- 

 worthy Porms of Posa.'^ — J. E. Duby, "Diagnoses Muscorum"(9 

 new sp., Hymenocleiston, gen. nov.). 



Hedwigia, — M. C. Cooke, " Peziza) Amcricanse." 



(Esterr. Bot. Zeitschr. — K. Knaf, " Hieraciiim Eurypus, n. s." — 

 A. Burgenstein, "Transpiration at low temperatures of a Yew 

 Branch." — E. v. Ucchtritz, " Thlaspi banaticum, n.s." — L. v. Vako- 



