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the pedicellated bulbs of Talipa sylvestris." — E. Mer, " On the 

 dimensions of etiolated internodes and leaves." — Cauvet, " On the 

 absorption of coloured liquids." — E. Mer, " On growth of leaves 

 detached from the branch." — C. de Candolle, " Some cases of hairy 

 embryos." — J. Duval-Jouve, " On Althenia fiUformn qro'ving with 

 A. Barrandonii." — Lamottc, "Correction of name" {Taraxacum sal- 

 sugineum, Lam. = T. leptocephalum, Rchb.). — E. Cosson, " Biographical 

 notice of W. de Schoenefeld." — E. Fournier, " Revision of genus 

 SchoenefeldiaP — J. Duval-Jouve, "Histology of Schoenefeldia" 

 (tab. 2). — Weddcll, "On what is called a ' species ' in Botany." — 

 P. van Tieghem, " On the structure and mode of dehiscence of the 

 sporange of Piloholus, and on two new species" (P. Kleinii and P. 

 longipes). — J. Duval-Jouve, " Notes on some plants collected in 187') " 

 (Grasses), — Id., " On Scleropoa rigida and S. kemipoay — M. Cornu. 

 " Change in the rootlets of the Vine under the influence of Phi/lloxera'^ 

 — R. Sagot, ** On variation in form of seeds in Dioclea and Miicuna." — 

 G. Rouy, "Description of five new French Roses." — Gautier, 

 " Botanising in isles of the Etang de Leucate, near Xarbonne." 



(1876, pt. 1). — P. van. Tieghem, " On Ahsidia, a new genus of 

 Mucorinea." — J. Daveau, "Excursion in Malta and Cyrenaica" (with 

 map). — M. Cornu, "Different methods of preserving microscopical 

 preparations." — G. Genevier, " On the Mushroom eaten at Xantes under 

 the name of Champignon rouge" {A. campestris). — P. van Tieghem, 

 " On Brefeld's recent work on the Ifucorinec?, and especially on 

 Piloholus.'^ — F. Leclerc, " The epigenesis of the stem and elongation of 

 the peduncle." 



New Books. — D. Hanbury, " Science Papers, chiefly Pharmaco- 

 logical and Botanical," edited by J. Ince (Macmillan, 14s.).— T. 

 Caruel, " L'Erborista Toscano " (Florence, 12mo.). — E. Regel, 

 "Flora von Turkestan; I. Primulacece et Liliacea'' (22 plates, 

 Moscow, 15s.). 



A second part of Baron von Mueller's notes on Papuan plants has 

 been issued, mainly drawn up from material collected by the Rev. S. 

 Macfarlane, a missionary who has lately explored the Baxter and Fly 

 rivers. New species of Macaranga, Spermacoce, and Dendrohium are 

 described, and there are also notes on several other plants of interest. 

 The same botanist sends the 83rd part of his " Fragmcnta." A new 

 genus of Labiatsc, JDepremesnilia, is dedicated to Count d'Epresmesnil, 

 President of the French Acclimatisation Society. 



The recently published part of the Transactions of the Norfolk 

 and Norwich Naturalists' Society contains the conclusion of the cata- 

 logue of flowering plants of the county. 



The death of Leopold Fueckel, of Oestrich, occurred at Vienna, on 

 his way home from Italy, on May 8th, of typhus. He was the author 

 of a good pocket Flora of Nassau, but is best known as a Fungologist. 

 His " Symbol® Mycologicse " was published in 1869, with appendices 

 in 1871, '73, and '75, and is a handbook to the Fungi of the Rhine 

 district, of which such a largo number of specimens have been issued 

 in the author's " Fungi Rhenani Exsiccati." 



