384 BOTANICAL NEW?. 



Nuovo Qiorn. Bot. Hal. (Oct. 2nd) —11. Pirotta, " Synopsis of 

 Fungi of province of Pavia." — N. Petliciuo, " On study of pollination." 



Bot. Tiddskrift (scr. 3, torn, i., pt. 2). — E. Warming, "On a new 

 social Goniiim." — Id., " Biological and morphological notes." 



Joiini. Linn. Soc. (23rd Oct.) —Mr. J. Berkeley and M. C. Cooke, 

 "Fungi of Brazil." — F. Darwin, "On the glandular bodies ou 

 Acacia splmrocephala and Cecropia peltata, with appendi.x; on nectar 

 g\3iniS.s of Pter is aquili^ia" {t'db. 6). — J. M. Crombie, "Lichens col- 

 lected by W. Pool in Madaga.suar." — J. G. Baker, " On collection 

 of Ferns made by W. Pool in interior of Madagascar." 



Ann. des Sc. Nat. (ser. 6, t. iii., pt. 3). — E. Prillieux, " On the 

 formation and development of some galls" (contd., tab. 16-18). — 

 J. Decaisne, "On some plants of the group 21ieophraste(e'^ 

 [Deherainia, gen. nov., t. 12). — S. Sirodot, " On Balbiania investiens" 

 (tab. 13-15). — E. Bescherelle, " Bryological Flora of the French 

 Antilles." 



Dr. Braithwaite announces the intended issue to subscribers of 

 " Sphagnaccfe Britannicae exsiccatoe," which will include about tifty 

 forms, illustrating his I'ccent monograph, iu the choicest dried speci- 

 mens, both mounted, and loose for microscopic e.\aminatiou. Three 

 Continental species not found in Britain will also be included. Only 

 fifty copies will be prepared, in imperial (parto size, price 25s., and 

 llie author will be glad to have the names of those desiring to possess 

 the work. Address, The Ferns, Clapham Rise, London. 



We hear that Mr. I. B. Balfour's llodriguez gatherings are to be 

 published by the Eoyal Society, illustrated by thirty plates. 



Mr. Baker has a paper on the Fern-Flora of the Seychelles in the 

 "Transactions" of the Royal Irish Academy (vol. xxv., p. 15), 

 illustrated by two plates. A list of the Myrtacca of the group has also 

 appeared in the " Proceedings" of the same learned body. 



We have received from Baron von Mueller careful descriptions, 

 with good figures, of three new genera of fossil fruits from the uppiT 

 tertiary auriferous drift of Kew South Wales, in the Report of the 

 Geological Survey of N. S. W. for 1875. Rhytidocarijon is referred 

 to Menii^pcrmaeccr,, Spondijlostrohus to Cupressinecs, and Pentcune is 

 probably either Sapindaccous or !Meliaceous. 



The last part of Prof. Baillons " Histoire des Plantes " contains 

 the Families Castaneacea {Betulece, ConjlecBy Myricett:, &c.) ; C'om- 

 bretacecc (including iVys-sa and Alangiwn) ; and lihizopl/oracea. Tlie 

 same author's " Adansonia '' has completed its Uth volume. 



White's recently printed Directory for Leicestershire and Rutland 

 contains a revised list of plants. Nothing is added, however, to Cole- 

 man's very complete catalogue, besides the additions iu " Topo- 

 graphical Botany," and a very few segregates. 



The herbarium of the late Baron Oscar de Dieudunne has been pre- 

 sented to the Botanical Gardens of Brussels. It contains 10,537 

 species, represented by (it is estimated) about 45,000 specimens, and 

 is one of the most complete collections of the plants of Europe ever 

 brought together. 



