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third great Order of Jussiou, with polypctalous plants. As a prac- 

 tical system this is, however, so inconvenient that it has never found 

 much acceptance, though it hrings together many plants that are un- 

 doubtedly closely related to each other, and which by the generally 

 adopted De Ciindollean method are widely separated. In addition to 

 the general views contained in this " Enumeration," he has published 

 many systematic memoirs on Natural Orders, or on new species and 

 genera belonging to all divisions in the vegetable kingdom. He de- 

 scribed the flowering plants of the voyage of the Coquillc, and, assisted 

 by his late colleague, M. Oris, he has been in recent years engaged 

 in publishing the botany of Kew Caledonia in a series of papers ex- 

 tending over several volumes of the " Annales des Sciences Naturelles." 

 M. Brongniart was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 

 1834, in the place of Desfontaines, and in the same year was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Vegetable Physiology in the Museum of Natural 

 History. In 1852 he was elected a foreign Fellow of the Royal 

 Society, and was also appointed Inspector-General for the Sciences of 

 the University of Paris. He was made an officer of the Legion of 

 Honour in May, 184(5. 



The herbarium of the late Prof. Grenier, containing most im- 

 portant material for the French flora, has been, in accordance with his 

 wishes, oflered to the Museum at Paris. 



M. Luis Sodiro, Professor of Botany at Quito, is engaged on the 

 completion of Jameson's unfinished " Synopsis plantar urn a^quatorien- 

 sium." 



The herbarium of the late M. Boreau is to be sold by his family. 

 It comprises about 20,000 species, among them all the types of the 

 *' Flore du Centre de la France," and a great number of authentic 

 specimens sent to M. Boreau by contemporary authors. There are 

 also about 300 exotic species. Address, for full particulars, Mme. veuve 

 Boreau, au Jardin Botanique a Angers. 



The important memoir by Prof, de Bary on the Potato Fungus 

 will be published in the forthcoming number of the Journal of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society, which is now passing through the press. It will 

 contain a resume of what is known of the Fungus, a critical examina- 

 tion of Mr. Smith's views, and the reasons which induce Professor de 

 Baiy to difl'er from them ; together with an account of the life-history 

 of the Fungus, of the means by which its life is maintained throughout 

 the winter, and of the characters upon which it is separated from 

 Peronos]jora and made the type of a new genus. By the kindness of 

 the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, we shall bo able to 

 place the report before our readers, together with the necessary 

 illustrations. 



In the recent explorations carried on by M. Auguste Mariette-Bey 

 at Karnak, he has discovered a series of drawings of plants collected 

 in Syria by Thothmes III., during a military expedition which he 

 undertook to subjugate the Syrians. Though often conventionally 

 treated, the collection of dried plants brought to Egypt by the monarch 

 some 3400 years ago has been so reproduced by the artist on the 

 rocky tablets that many of them may be determined, and there is a 

 hope that some account may yet be given of this earliest illustrated 

 local flora. 



