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contain several new genera, mcluHing Ballachi/u { = Rhamnus vitiensis, 

 Benth.), named to cjmraeraorate the services of Mr. John Dallachy, 

 who has been a very assiduous collector in Eastern Tropical Australia 

 for ten years, where he has detected many novelties. 



It is so rare to have anything botanical to record published in 

 Spain that we were glad to receive Don M. Laguna y Villanueva's 

 paper on a new Oak from the Philippines. We have transcribed its 

 characters at p. 28 ; a figure of the fruit and foliage accompanies 

 it in the original. There are now eight species of Quercus known 

 in the Philippines. 



The "Ofversigt" of the Hoyal Swedish Academy for 1875 (No. 6, 

 pp. 13-43) contains a memoir by 0. Nordstedt on the Desmidia col- 

 lected at Spitzbergen by the Swedish expedition of 1872-3. Many 

 new species are fully described and illustrated in 3 beautiful plates 

 drawn by the author. There are also lists of Besmidice from Russian 

 Lapland and from Novaia Zemblia. 



The Watfcrd Natural History Society have issued a second part of 

 their " Transactions." In Botany it contains only some notes on the 

 observation of the periods of flowering of certain species, by J. Hop- 

 kinson and by the Rev. W. M. Hind. 



Mr. Roper has lately communicated to the Eastbourne Natural 

 History Society a paper on the additions to the Flora and Fauna during 

 1875. The large number of 46 Phanerogams, 2 Ferns, 3 Fungi, and 

 3 Lichens are enumerated. 



M. H. Loret, whose Flora of Montpellier is expected before the 

 spring, has printed in the " Revue des Sciences Naturelles" (June, 1875) 

 some critical observations on some plants of that district, occupying 

 70 pages. 



The " Abhandlungen " of the Bremen Natural History Society 

 (bd. iv., hett 4, pp. 392-512) has a monograph of the Juncacecs of the 

 Cape by Dr. Buchenau, illustrated by 7 plates. 



We understand that Prof. Baillou is engaged on an illustrated 

 Dictionary of Botany, which will be published in parts, at 5 francs each, 

 by Hachette. 



The death is recorded on November 9th of Dr. Jean Charles 

 Marie Grcnier, Professor in the School of Medicine, and Dean of the 

 Faculty of Sciences, at his native town, Besan^on, for many years. 

 He was bom in 1808, and was therefore sixty-seven years of age. 

 Fiench Botany owes much to his labours, which have resulted in two 

 important treatises — one the standard "Flore de France," worked 

 out with M. Godron, and published between 1848 and 1856, in three 

 volumes ; the other the scarcely less valuable " Flore de la Chaine 

 Jurassique," printed in two parts in 1865 and 1869,* and really, so 

 far as it extends, a supplement to the earlier work. M. Grenier was 

 also the author of many papers on PVcnch plants in the local trans- 

 actions published at Strasburg, Bordeaux, and Besan^on, and in the 

 Bulletin of the French Botanical Society ; his descriptions are charac- 

 terised by great carefulness and lucidity, with a tendency to perhaps 

 over-refinement, though he was not a splitter of the extreme type. 



Sue uotices in Journ. Bot., ISfi.O, p. 195. and 1870, p. IG, 



