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French-Belgian- Swiss flora it comes tenth with 147 species. An 

 important biological feature is the preponderance of perennials, 

 which comprise more than two-thirds the number of vascular 

 plants. Among the woody plants are numerous shrubby members 

 of the Chenojjodiaecie, especially of the groups Sdholacca and 

 Salicorniecc. Of tlie 2878 perennials, 148 species are bulbous 

 and 100 tuberous. There are G4 vascular water-plants, and 115 

 saprophytic, parasitic and insectivorous species, the last-named 

 including the monotypic endemic genus Drosophyllto)!. The compo- 

 sition of the flora is as follows : — Central European species, 1G33 ; 

 French (not including Pyrenean), 215 ; Pyreuean (and not found in 

 the Alps), 188 ; plants of the Central European Alps and high moun- 

 tains, 236; Mediterranean, 1132; South Atlantic, 185; North 

 African, 282 ; plants of Atlantic islands, 16 ; Oriental, 40; Central 

 Asiatic, 8; endemic, 1465; cultivated, &c., 260; making altogether 

 5660 species. 



The second part contains a somewhat exhaustive account of the 

 vegetation of the different botanical districts of the peninsula, 

 namely, the Pyrenean, the North Atlantic, the Central, the Medi- 

 terranean, the South Atlantic, and the West Atlantic. The 

 Appendix gives a short account of the alterations which have 

 been produced in the vegetation by cultivation and commerce, 

 from the time of the invasion by the Arabs in the eighth century, 

 bringing several species of corn (Tiitkuin CevaUos Lag., T. fastii- 

 os2im Lag., and perhaps T. durum Desf.) onwards. It concludes 

 with a list of the plants now cultivated, and also one of those exotic 

 species which have become naturalized and now spread over con- 

 siderable areas. A notice of this excellent work would be incomplete 

 without a word of praise of the two maps, one illustrating rainfall, 

 the other vegetation-lines ; both are models of clearness. 



A. B. Rendle. 



ARTICLES Z.^ JOURNALS. 



Annals of Botany (.June). — G. Brebner, 'Prothallus and embryo 

 of Dau<£a si)iq)licifolia ' (1 pi.). — G. Massee, ' Revision of Coprimm ' 

 (2 pi.). — R. W. Phillips, 'Development of cystocarp in Rhodomela- 

 cecz' (2 pi.). — A. C. Sew^ard, 'Geological History of Monocotyledons' 

 (1 pi.). — W. B. Hemsley, ' Flora of Lord Howe Island.' 



Uot. Centralblatt (Nos. 20, 21). — K. Friderichsen, 'RubusSchuw- 

 iiielii Whe.' — K. von Flatt, 'Das seltenste typographische Product 

 Linne's' [see p. 359] . — (Nos. 22, 23). E. Heinricher, ' Ueber 

 pflanzenbiologische Gruppen.' — P. Magnus, ' Bemerkungen zu 

 Dr. G. Lagerheim's Abhandlung : Uredineae Herb. E. Fries.' — 

 (No. 24). C, Rosenberg, ' Die Stanke der Pflanzen in Winter.' — 

 F. V. Mueller, Burtonia simplicifulia, Grevillea Helmsiana, spp. nn. — 

 (No. 25). A. Coguiaux, Macairea Theresm, sp. n. — (No. 27). W. 

 Maxwell, ' The Growth of Banana-leaves.' — A. Garcke, ' Zwei 

 Ersatzblatter in Linne's Species Plantarum, ed. 1.' — (Nos. 28, 29). 

 J. Wittlin, ' Ueber die Bildung der Kalkoxalat-Taschen ' (1 pi.). 



