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[see p. 90] . — K. HoUstein, ' The destiny of Anthoxanthin Cor- 

 puscles in withering Flower-leaves.' — F. Kienitz-Gerloff, ' On the 

 Development of the Moss-Capsule, and the Embryo -Development 

 of some PolyimdiacecB' (tab. 1, 2). 



Flora. — P. G. Strobl, * Flora of the Nebrodes in comparison 

 with that of the whole of Sicily.' — S. Schulzer, * Mycological 

 Notes.' — K. Prantl, ' On the occuiTence of Cuscuta Groiiovii, W., 

 in the Valley of the Main.' — L. Dippel, ' Eemarks on the Com- 

 position of Chlorophyll.' — 0. Bockeler, ' Diagnoses of new or 

 little-known Cyiieracece.' 



Oesterr. Bot. ZeiUchrift. — ' Memoir of A. E . Vogl ' (with portrait). 

 — W. Winkler, ' Anatomy of Galls on Pine caused by Pine- 

 Lice.' — A. Kerner, ' Distribution of Hungarian Plants' (continued). 

 — F. von Hohnel, ' Explanation of the occm-rence of coagulated 

 Latex in the ulterior of Vessels.' — B. Stem, ' Three Cerastia.' — F. 

 von Heldreich, ' On Silene Ungeri, FenzL' — F. Antoine, ' Botany of 

 the Vienna Exhibition ' (continued). 



Magyar Xovmytani Lapok. — K. Mika, ' On Sphaeraphides in the 

 Epidermis of Capsella Bursa.' — M. Staub, ' On the Crocus of Fiume.' 



Bot. Notiser. (Jan. 10th). — E. Ahrling, 'Examination of the 

 Linnean MSS. to be found in Sweden ' (continued). 



Xuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. (Jan. 22nd). — F. Caruel, * On the 

 Pollination of the Asteracece.' — G. Ai-changeli, 'On TrifoUum 

 ohscurum, Savi.' — M. C. Cooke, ' Pr^eciu'sor ad Monographiam 

 Henclersonice.' — H. Terraciano, ' Transformation of Stamens into 

 Carpels in Capsicum yrossmit, and Fructiferous Prolification in 

 C. annuum (tab. 1). — J. Zanardini, ' Phyceffi Papuanse a Beccari 

 in Nov. Guin. collect. [Endosiphonia, Ceratodictyon, Spongodendron, 

 genn. nov.) — A. Mori, ' On structure of the Stem of Erythrina 

 Critta-GallV (tab. 2). — A. Borzi, 'Researches in the Sexuality of 

 the Ascomycetes ' (tab. 3, 4). 



yvoctetimBS of Sotuttes. 



Linnean Society of London. 



January 17, 1878. — Prof. Allman, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. Thiselton Dyer exhibited the Diptcrocarpea'. collected 

 by Beccari in his visit to New Guinea m 1872. These were only 

 three in number, an extremely poor result compared with the 

 extraordinary abundance and variety in the forms belonging to 

 this family previously collected by the same botanist in the 

 adjacent island of Borneo. The specimens, which w^ere somewhat 

 fragmentary, consisted of fruits of a species of Hopra and of an 

 Anisoptera, — differing, apparently, from A. polyandra, which was 

 the only Dipterocarpea previously known from New Gumea, — and 



