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tinovic, " New Croatian Oaks."— E. Hibscli, " On Sorb-trees."— A. 

 Kerner, *' On Hungarian Plants" (contd.).— G. V. Niessl, ''New 

 Fungi " (contd.).— L. Richter, " Two Excursions in the Tatra." 



Neiv Booh. — C. Darwin, *' Insectivorous Plants " (8vo, Murray, 

 14s.). — A. Grisebach, " La Vegetation du Globe," translated into 

 French by P. de Tchihatchef, with notes by the translator, vol. i. 

 (Paris 1875, large 8vo). — P. F. Reinsch, ''* Contributiones ad Algo- 

 logiam et Fungologiam," vol. i. (Norimbergce, 1874-5, 4to, with 131 

 plates, drawn by the author). — E. Regel, '' Alliorum adhuc cogni- 

 torum Monographia" (Petrop. 1875, 8vo). — G. C. Gillet, " Les Cham- 

 pignons (Fungi Hymenomycetes) qui croissent en France." Part I. 

 (Paris, 8vo. 52 coloured plates.) — L. Eadlkofer, " Monographic der 

 Sapindaceen-gattung Serjania.'^ (Munich, 1875. 4to.) 



Hanstein's *'Botanische Abhandlungen " for 1875 consists of a 

 memoir by C. Delbrouck on the prickles of plants. 



The hrst part, consisting of seven folio plates beautifully executed 

 ..by the author, with descriptions, of " Australian Orchids " by R. D. 

 Fitzgerald, has been printed at Sidney, N.S.W. 



In the "Linnaea " (vol. xxxix., part 1, issued Feb., 1875), 0. 

 Bockeler continues his lengthy descriptions of the CijperacecB of the 

 Berlin herbarium, which are concluded in part 2 (issued June, 1875) ; 

 the latter' also contains a monograph of Australasian Palms by H. 

 "Wendland and 0. Drude, with four plates, and the commencement of 

 an account of the structure and affinities of the genus Parnassia by 0. 

 Drude, with a revision of the species. 



The " Repertorium der Naturwissenschaften " is a monthly index 

 or list of papers relating to Biological Science, and is published in 

 Berlin by the editor of the " Naturforscher." Each part consists of 

 eight or twelve quarto pages in two columns ; and the first appeared in 

 January last. The subscription to this useful publication, which 

 supplies a want much felt, is four marks per annum. 



A valuable " Enumeration of Burmese Palms," by Mr. S. Kurz, is 

 printed in the 2nd part of the Asiatic Society of Bengal's Journal 

 for 1874 (pp. 191-217). The author does not consider sobolification 

 as a character of sufficient importance ever to found a variety upon ; 

 he states for example that A reca triandra has simple and soboliferous 

 trunks with all intermediate states, and trees of Caryota sobolifera 

 are found simple-stemmed and soboliferous not a dozen yards from one 

 another. The Rattans {Calami) offer good specific characters, but are 

 still very imperfectly known, numerous book-species being based upon 

 incomplete fragments ; they appear to have a singularly restricted 

 range. Four new species of Calamus are described, two being of a 

 new type with the retrorse scales of the fruit fringed with hairs. 

 There are also four new species of other genera. The paper is 

 illustrated with twenty plates, which, considering they are 8vo size, 

 exhibit the characters as well as can be expected. 



In the Bremen "Abhandlungen" for 1874 (Band 4, heft 2), Dr. 



