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Flora. — H. de Vries, "On wood-callus" (contd.). — A. de 

 Krempelhuber, " Liclienes Brasilienses " (contd.). — H. Miiller, '' On 

 heliotropisin." — X. Landerer, "Botanical notes from Greece." 



Hedwlgia. — G. Limprlcht, " Silesian Hepaticse." 



(Esterr. Bot. ZeiUchr. — J. E. Hibsch, "■ Gewn rivale x montanum, 

 a new hybrid." — C. Haussknecht, " Botanical notes." — W. 0. Focke, 

 " Is Vitis vinifera a species or a hybrid ?" — A. Kerner, " Distribution of 

 Hungarian plants " (contd.). — Schulzer, " On Hyphomycetes " 

 (contd.). — F. Antoine, " Botany of the Vienna Exhibition " (contd.). 



Botanisha Notis^r {loih. Feb.).— :N'. G. W. Lagerstedt, "Ought 

 the name Diatomacece to be changed to Bacillariacece, ? — J. E. D. Iverus, 

 " Notes on the growth of the flower-stalk of Agapanthus umhellatm." 

 — H. W. Arnyll, " Localities for Scandinavian Mosses." 



New Books. — J. D. Hooker, " Primer of Botany " (Macmillan, Is.) 

 — H. Graf V. Solms-Laubach, " Das Haustorium der Loranthaceen & 

 der Thallus der Rafflesiaceen & Balanophoreen " (Halle, 40s.). — R. H. 

 Alcock, "Botanical Names for English Readers" (L. Reeve.) — H. 

 Loret & A. Barrandon, " Flore de Montpellier " (Montpellier). — E. 

 Linderaann, " Prodromus Florae Chersonensis " (Odessa, 1872). — 

 Parlatore, "Flora Italiana," vol. v., pt. 2 (Florence). — J. H. 

 Krombach, " Flore du Grand-Duche de Luxembourg ; Plantes Phanero- 

 games" (Luxemb., 1876, 8mk.). 



Guadalupe Island, about 100 miles off the coast of Lower Cali- 

 fornia, in lat. 29^ north, was visited during the last season from 

 February to May by Dr. Edward Palmer. No previous collection of 

 plants had been made there, but that formed by him is as nearly com- 

 plete as it was possible to make it. The number of species is 131 

 (102 Exogens and 8 Endogens, and 21 Ferns, Mosses, and Hepatics) ; of 

 these 12 are introduced, 9 range from the Pacific to the Atlantic 

 States, 49 are found throughout California, 18 are South Californian 

 only, and 21 are peculiar to the island. The introduced plants are all 

 European, and their introduction is to be traced to the Spaniards ; 

 Erodium cicutarium is the most abundant plant on the island. One of 

 the novelties is a Palm, Brahea ? edulis, conspicuous as the only repre- 

 sentative of a tropical Flora. Mr. Sereno Watson, in his " Contribu- 

 tions" printed in the " Proc. Amer. Academy" for February, 1876, 

 gives a list of the species, with descriptions of the new ones, except the 

 MonopetalfB, which are treated by Dr. A. Gray in the following memoir. 



Prof. Asa Gray's " Botanical Contributions," issued January 5, 

 1876, consist mainly of notes on Californian Botany, the writer having 

 been engaged in the preparation of the Gamopetalaj for Prof. Brewer's 

 "Botany of California," now printing. Palmerella, dedicated to Dr. 

 Edward Palmer above mentioned, is a new genus of Lobeliaceae, Hes- 

 j)erelaa of Oleaceoe, and Harpagonella and Echidiocarya of Boraginete. 



The Gault of Folkestone has afforded another Coniferous fruit, 

 which is described by Mr. Carruthers in the "Proceedings of the 

 Geologists' Association," under the name of Pinites Pricei. The Flora 

 of the Gault, as far as at present known, consists solely of a few 

 species of Coniferse. 



M, Cogniaux, of Brussels, who has for some time past been 

 studying the Ciicurhitacece in the great European herbaria, including 



