NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 381 



Doell. Gymnopogon fastigiatus, Nees, is made a new genus, 

 MonocJuHe, allied to Leptochloa, but diffeiing in its fewer flowers'. 

 There are forty-three plates. 



Other New Books.— F. Hegelmaier, ' VergleichendQ Untersu- 

 chungen liber Entwicklung dicotyledoner lieime.' Stuttgart, 

 Schweizerbart, 1878 (8 mk.)—R. Nordlinger, ' Querschnitte von 

 Hundert Holzarten,' Bd. viii. Stuttgart, Cotta, 1878 (5 mk.)— 

 ToDARO, ' Eelazione suUa cultura dei Cottoni in Italia, sequita da 

 una Monografia del genere Gossypium.' Eome and Palermo, 

 1877-8 (with 12 folio plates).— Mrs. Lankester 'Talks about 

 Plants, or early lessons in Botany.' Grifiith and Farrar, 1879. 



Articles in Journals. — October, 1878. 



Botanische Zeitung. — B. Frank, ' On some parasitic Fungi 

 causing leaf-staining diseases.' — Scharlok, ' On the flowers of 

 Collomia.' — K. Goebel, ' On root-shoots of Anthurmm longifolium,.' — 

 M. Traube, ^ On the mechanical theory of cell-growth and the history 

 of the theory.' 



Flora. — A. de Krempelhuber, 'Lichenes coll. in republ. Argen- 

 tina a Lorentz et Hieronymus.' — F. de Thuemen, ' Symbolae ad 

 floram mycologicam Austrahae,' ii. — M. Gandoger, ' Piosse novae 

 Galliae' (continued). — W. Nylander, ' Circa Lichenes Corsicanos 

 adnotationes.' — W. J. Behrens, ' Anatomico-physiological investiga- 

 tions on the nectaries of flowers.' — A. Borzi, 'Supplement to 

 morphology and biology of Nostochacece.' 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. — W. 0. Focke, ' A case of inefficiency of 

 certain pollen.' — J. Hinterhuber, ' Typhaminima, Hoppe.' — Schulze, 

 * Mycological notes.' — F. Hauck, ' Note on FJiizophydium Dicksonii.' 

 — J. Dedecek, ' Short excursion to Jeschken and Mileschauen in 

 N. Bohemia.' — E. F. Solla, 'Flora of neighbourhood of Gorz ' 

 (continued). — S. Schunk, • Flora of Val d'Agordo and Val di 

 Fassa.' 



Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. — G. Archangeli, ' On Fistulina hepatica' 

 (tab. 11). — G. Bertoloni, ' Further observations on the disease 

 " falchetto " of the mulberry ' (tab. 12). 



American Xatiiralist. — W. J. Beal, ' How thistles spin.' — E. 

 Palmer, ' Plants used by the Indians of the United States ' (con- 

 tinued). 



BtiU. Soc. Bot. France (xxiv., 3). — Boulay, ' A new eradicator 

 for collecting aquatics ' (tab. 7). — M. Cornu, ' Development of 

 Agaricus cirrhatns from a sclerotium.' — Lefevre, ' Eeproductions of 

 Eubus by implantation of extremity of leafy shoot.' — P. Petit, 

 ' Can desiccation kill Diatoms ? ' — Viaud-Grandmarais and Menier, 

 ' Botany of He d'Yeu, Vendee.' — Beauregard, ' Structure and 

 development of fruit of Daphne' (tab. 10).— P. Duchartre, ' Obser- 

 vations on double flowers of Lilies, especially of L. tigrlnum.' 



