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and the remarks on pronunciation are judicious. No Greek letters are 

 employed, which renders it impossible to spell some of the Greek 

 words ; but to have introduced them would have been useless. 



The sketch of the history of Botany in relation to nomenclature is 

 well and concisely written. Most of it is familiar to those who have 

 consulted Pulteney and more recent books on the subject. The chapter 

 on Arab physicians, however, contains an interesting account of a very 

 little-known group of naturalists, in great measure drawn from Wvirs- 

 tenfeld's " History." There is an appendix containing additional 

 information relating to some of the older Eaglish botanists, but 

 nothing of novelty. 



There is no doubt that the book will prove a useful one to those in 

 whose behalf it has been compiled. 



H. T. 



23otanical ^cW* 



Articles in Journals. — March. 



Grevillea. — M. J. Berkeley, "Notices of North American Fungi" 

 (contd.).— M. C. Cooke, " New British Fungi" (contd., t. 64).— Id , 

 ^^ Oa. Pellicular ia, gen. nov., the 'black-rot' of Coffee." — Id., "On 

 some Indian Fungi " (t. 63). — Id., " On Pe%iza IrunneaP — W. 

 Phillips and C. B. Plowright, "New and rare British Fungi" 

 (contd.). 



(Esterr. Bot. Zeitschr. — W. Velten, "Active or passive?" — V. 

 de Borbas, " Verbascum FreyniaiiHm, n. hybr. (Chaixiix Thaps7is)." — 

 L. v. Vukotinovic, " Two Croatian Hieracia." — F. Hauck, " Algae of 

 Gulf of Trieste " (contd.). — F. Hazslinsky, " On Sphceria morhiformis 

 and S- spuria.''^ — F. Antoine, " Botany of the Vienna Exhibition " 

 (contd.). 



Botanische Zeitung . — J. Eeinke, " Researches on growth " (contd.). 

 — P. van Tieghem, " New observations on the fructification and sup- 

 posed sexuality of Basidiomycetes and Ascomi/cetes." — A. Dodel-Post, 

 " On swarmspores of Ulothrix zonafa.^' — T. Irmisch, " On the germi- 

 nating plant of Rhipsalis Cassytha and its development " (tab. 4). 



Flora.— IL. de Vries, " On Wood-callus " (contd., tab. 1-3.).— 

 J. Sachs, " On Reinke's ' Researches on growth.' " — A. Geheeb, 

 " Bryological notes from the Rhone Mountains." — A. de Krempelhuber, 

 " Lichenes Brasilienses " (contd.). 



Hedwigia. — Sauter, " Hymenomycetes novi." 



New Boohs. — W. P. Schimper, " Synopsis Muscorum europaeorum." 

 edit. 2. 2 vols. (Stuttgart, 1876. 28s. 8vo.)— M. Treub, " Le 

 Meristem primitif de la racine dans les Monocotyledones," avec une 

 preface par W. F. R. Saungar. (Leide. 1876. 4to. 10s. 8 plates.) 



Dr. Farlow has reprinted from the " Bulletin of the Bussey Insti- 

 tution " some valuable botanical articles, consisting of the following. 

 An account of the disease of Olive and Orange trees in California, 

 which is accompanied by the growth of states of the Fungus Fumago 



