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tab. 2). — B. Stein, * Primula Kerneri, Goebel & St. {= P. sub- 

 auricula x villosa).' — E. Hackel, 'Two critical Grasses from 

 Greece.' — F. de Thuemen, * Symbolae ad flor. Mycologicam 

 Austriacam' (continued). — W. Vatke, ' Plantae in itin. Africano 

 a Hildebrandt collect. — Leguminosa.' — F. Antoine, 'Botany of the 

 Vienna Exhibition ' (continued). 



Flora. — W. Nylander, ' Addenda nova ad Lichenographiam 

 Europaeam.' — A. Minks, 'The Microgonidium ' (continued). — 

 J. B. Keller, ' On Eoses ' (continued). 



Bot. Zeitung. — H. Solms-Laubach, ' On the structure of the 

 flower and fruit of the PandanacecB ' (continued, tab. 10). — P. F. 

 Reinsch, ' Botanical Notes from America.' — Oudemans, ' Note on 

 Spharia Brassica, Kl.' — E. Junger, 'Notes from old botanical 

 works.' — H. Nebelung, ' Spectroscopic researches on the colouring 

 matters of some fresh -water AlgcB ' (tab. 11). 



Magyar Novenyt. Lapok. — ' Obituary notice of F. Schur.' — 

 L. Simkovics, * Three Violets new to Hungary.' — (Supplt.) F. 

 Porcier, ' Enumeratio plant, distr. quondam Naszodiensis.' 



JSotauual Netos. 



We learn from the Pieport of Kew Gardens, recently pubhshed, 

 that the post of Assistant to the Dkector of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Ceylon, lately vacated by Mr. Hartog, has been filled 

 by the appointment of Mr. Daniel Morris, B.A., of Trin. Coll., 

 Dublin. Also that Mr. Everard im Thurm, B.A., of Exeter 

 College, Oxford, has been appointed Curator of the British Guiana 

 Museum, where a portion of the duties will consist in exploring 

 the country. 



No less than seventy-six ladies competed for the prizes in 

 Botany at Apothecaries' Hall. Of these five were placed in the 

 first and fifteen in the second class. 



Barthelemy Charles Du Mortier, the venerable and eminent 

 statesman and botanist of Belgium, died at his native town, 

 Tournai, on July 9th, in his eighty-second year. As a poHtician 

 he has for many years taken a very prominent part in public 

 affairs, and was the acknowledged leader of the clerical party 

 in the Chamber. As a botanist he ranks very high, and his 

 writings show a powerful and original treatment of the portions of 

 the science which he handled, as well as the possession of great 

 critical sagacity in the matter of species. His earUest botanical 

 treatise, the ' Commentationes Botanicae,' was published so long 

 ago as 1822, and consists of descriptions of several new genera 

 dedicated to Belgian botanists, few of which have been retained, 

 a general arrangement of the vegetable kingdom on a new 



