254 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



The ' Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 

 Society' (vol. ii., -p. 380) contains a list of plants observed near 

 Cromer in the autumn of 1875, 1876, by Prof. C. C. Babington. 



Baron von Mueller has commenced the 11th volume of his 

 ' Fragmenta Phyt. Australia.' A new genus of Sapindacea^ — 

 Blepharocanja — from Endeavour River, is very remarkable in 

 having its small sessile dioecious flowers inserted over the interior 

 of a coriaceous laciniate involucre, somewhat recalling the inflo- 

 rescence of Dorstenia or Pterisanthes. 



New Books. — S. Kurz, ' Forest Flora of British Burma.' 

 2 vols. Calcutta, 1877 (30.s.) — J. D. Hooker and others, 'Flora 

 of British India.' Part 5. L. Reeve, London (lOs. M.) — W. M. 

 Watts, *A School Flora.' London (2s. 6f/.) -- J. E. Taylor, 



* Flowers.' London, Hardwicke & Bogue (7s. M.) — J. D. Hooker, 



* Student's Flora of the British Islands.' 2nd edition. London, 

 Macmillan (10s. M.) — E. M. Holmes, 'A Botanical Note-book.' 

 W. Christy, London (3s.) — T. Meehan, ' The Native Flowers and 

 Ferns of the United States,' illustrated by chromo-lithographs. 

 Pai-ts 1 & 2. Boston (50 cts. each). — A. & C. Dodel-Port, 

 ' Anatomisch-physiologische Atlas der Botanik.' Part 1. Six 

 coloured diagrams. Schreiber, Esslingen (15 mA-.) — 0. Kuntze, 

 'Cinchona, Arten, hybriden & Cultur der Chininbaume.' Haessel, 

 Leipzig. — G. C. Wittstein, ' The Organic Constituents of Plants 

 and Vegetable Substances, and their Chemical Analysis.' Trans- 

 lated, with numerous additions, by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. 

 Melbourne, 1878. — H. Baillon, ' Nouvelles Observations sur les 

 Olinia.' Paris, 1878. — ' Monographiae Plantarum : Prodi'omi nunc 

 contmuatio nunc revisio. xiuct. Alph. & Cas. DeCandolle aliisque 

 botanicis. Vol. I. Smilacecp., RestiacecB^ MeliacecB.' Masson, Paris, 

 Jmiio, 1878 (30s.) — M. Willkomm & J. Lange, ' Prodromus Floras 

 Hispanicae,' vol. iii., pt. 3. Schweizerbart, Leipzig (9 ink.) — 

 Bohnensieg & BuRCK,. * Repertorium annum Lit. Bot. period. (1875).' 

 Loosjes, Haarlem, 1878. — W. B.Hemsley, 'Diagnoses Plant, nov. 

 vel minus cognit. Mexicanarum et centrali-Americanarum, Pars I. 

 PolypetalcB.' London, July, 1878. 



Articles in Journals. — June, 1878. 



Grevillea. — M.C.Cooke, 'New British Fungi.' ~ Id., ' Ra- 

 venel's N. American Fungi.' 



Joiirn. Linn. Soc. (Parts 96, 97, June 17th). — J. Ball, ' Spici- 

 legium Florae Maroccanse ' (concluded), (tt. 27, 28). 



American NatU7'alist. — L. F. Ward, ' On the genealogy of 

 plants.' 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. — K. Mikosch, ' Influence of light, heat 

 and moisture on the opening and shutting of the anthers in Bidbo- 

 codium vernum: — F. Hauck, ' Ahjcr of the Adriatic ' (continued. 



