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X. Gillot, < Chelidonium majus var. laciniatum .' — (16 Nov.). J. 

 Baagoe, ' Potamogeton undulatus Wolfg. (P. crispus x pralongm) ' 

 (1 pL). — (1 Dec). E. Perrot, ' Sur le tissu conducteur sur- 

 numeraire.' — (1 Jan.). A. De Coincy, ' Plantes nouvelles de la 

 Flore d'Espagiie.' — M. Mirande, ' Malate et malophosphate de 



calcium dans les vegetaux.' . Hue, ' Les Piamalina a Eichard- 



mesnil.' 



Journ. Linn. Soc. (2 Dec). — Sir John Lubbock, * On Buds and 

 Stipules' (concl.: 4 pL). 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (Jan.). — K. Fritscli; * Zur Systematik 

 der Gattung Sorhus/ — E. v. Wettstein, 'Die Innovations-Verhalt- 

 nisse von Phaseolus cocdneus' (concl.). — E. Hackel, Poa Grimbiirgi, 

 gp. 11. — F. Bubak, Pucdnia Sdrpi. — J. Eick, ' Zur Pilzkunde 

 Vorarlbergs.' — C. Baenitz, ' Ueber seltene und neue Eubi und 

 Eubus-Hybriden.' 



Trans. Linn. Soc. (Oct.). — D. T. Gwynne-Vaughan, ' Some 

 points in the morphology and anatomy of NymphcBacece ' (2 pi.). — 

 (Dec). W. 0. Worsdell, On ' Transfusion- Tissue ' (4 pL). 



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Our transatlantic friends have so accustomed us to well-printed 

 and cheap books, often on good paper, that part i. of Mr. C. E. 

 Orcutt's Pieview of the CactacecB comes upon us as a surprise. It is 

 execrably printed in double columns on wretched paper, abounds in 

 misprints, has no title-page, and contains exactly thirty pages of 

 text — plus a prefatory note embodying certain corrections — and 

 costs a dollar ! There is no clavis, and the species are arranged 

 alphabetically, and numbered, the varieties (many of which are 

 mere names, without description or reference) receiving a separate 

 number. Several species are described. We have seldom seen a 

 more unprepossessing publication. 



Messrs. Underwood & Earle's Preliminary List of Alabama 

 Eimgi, issued by the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station 

 (April, 1897), is based on the Berkeley & Curtis's ''Notices of 

 North American Fungi," on species collected by Judge Peters in 

 Alabama, which were incorporated in the Eavenel exsiccati, and on 

 the results obtained by recent workers in that field, chiefly by the 

 authors of the list. It does not lay claim to completeness, and can 

 hardly even be considered representative, so meagre are the records 

 for some widely-distributed forms, as, for instance, the Mucorini, 

 of which but two species have been found as yet. The authors 

 state that they have followed largely the classification adopted by 

 Schroter in Engler & Prantl's Pflanzenfamilien. They have followed 

 his nomenclature also in substituting for the familiar Oystopus the 

 older name Albugo. Under Polyporiis they have grouped — and who 

 can blame them ? — all the species distributed by Saccardo and 



