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Prodr. v., 323 (1836), which is foimdcd on Rpccimons collected hy 

 Hurchell (1C77, 20G1) in the Asbestos Mountains, in extra-tropical 

 South Africa, north of the Oran<^o river ; it is also the same species 

 as a specimen in the Kew Herbarium from St. Augnstin, Madagascar, 

 named in Bojer's writing Psiadia linearifolia, Boj., but does not agree 

 with the description of P. linearifolia, DC. In Peters Reise 

 Mossamb., Bot., Steetz has given in a note a monograph of the genus ; 

 but we are unable to separate specifically without considerable doubt 

 liis P. dodoneeafolia from the Abyssinian plant. 



In concluding this notice of Vatke's careful paper, I may add the 

 circumstance, not given by him, that an Orohanche (no. 527') is para- 

 sitical on the root of Gnaphalium Steudelii, Schultz Bip. 



W. P. HiEBN. 



Elementary Lessons in Botanical Geography. Br J. G. Bakee, F.L.S. 

 London: Lovell Reeve and Co. 1875. (pp.110.) 



This little volume consists of reprints, with slight alterations, of 

 the articles on Botanical Geography which have been printed in the 

 " Gardener's Chronicle " during the past year. There are twelve 

 chapters or lessons, each containing a summary of the facts bearing on 

 some special portion of the subject. One has been printed in our columns 

 (1875, p. 184), and will give a good example of the mode in which 

 the subject is treated. The bulk of the book (ten chapters) is devoted 

 to climate and its influence on plant-distribution, a single chapter only 

 being given to the influence of man, and another to the results of 

 changes in the past physical changes of the globe. 



The subject of the distribution of plants is so lightly touched upon 

 (or altogether omitted) in text-books of Botany, that Mr. Baker's 

 volume really supplies a deficiency, and unquestionably fills it in a 

 very satisfactory manner. H. T. 



25otanical ^etoisf* 



Articles in Journals. 



/7orrt (November, 1875). — L. Celakovsky, " On the interposition of 

 the stamiual whorl." — C. Kraiis, " On the origin of vegetable colour- 

 ing-matters." — F.Arnold, "Lichens of the French Jura. Supplement." 



December, 1875. 



Flora. — C. Miiller, " Musci novo-granatenses " {Schliephackea, 

 gen. nov.) — K. Prantl, "Branching of the stem in some Ferns." — O. 

 Biickeler, "Notes on a number of Carices named from abnormal states 

 of certain species." 



Bot. Zeitung. — F. Kienitz-Gerlofl", "Researches on the develop- 

 ment of the sporogones in Livermosses" (contd.). — W. Velten, " On 

 the development of the cambium and N. J. C. Miiller's ideas on this 

 subject." 



