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Bull. Torrey Cliih (8 June). — G. V. Nash, * The genus Sijntlier- 

 isma [Digitaria] in N. America.' — E. 0. Wooton, 'New plants from 

 New Mexico.' — W. W. Eowlee & M. W. Doherty, ' Histology of 

 embryo of Indian Corn' (1 pi.). — J. K. Small, ' N. American plants.' 

 — C. H. Peck, ' New Fungi.'— B. D. Halstecl, * Mycological Notes.' 

 — L. Kadlkofer, ' New Sajmidacece.^ — A. A. Eaton, Spartina 

 ccespitosa, Eriopliorum pauci7iervium, spp. nn. — E. J. Hill, ' Vitis 

 Labrusca.' 



Gardeners' Chronicle (4 June). — ' Papery-spined Opuntias' (fig. 

 129).— W. B. Hemsley, ' Sydenham Teaste Edwards.' — (11 June). 

 Senecio Hcmburicmiis Dinter, sp. n. — Tagetes lacera (fig. 135). — Aceras 

 Bolleana Siehe & Hausskn., sp. n. (fig. 138). — (18 June). R. A. 

 Rolfe, ' Nepenthes ventricosa' (fig. 143). 



Journal de Botanique (16 April). — J. Nadeaud, ' Les Composees 

 arborescentes de Tahiti.' — Pi. Chodat & A. M. Boubier, ' Sur la 

 plasmolyse et la membrane plasmique.' 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (June). — T. Wulff, ' Studien liber ver- 

 stopfte Spaltoffnungen ' (1 pi.). — F. Buchenau, ^Luzula camjjestris 

 und verwandte Arten.' — E. Woloszczak, ' Salices hybrid^e.' — J. 

 Freyn, * Zur Flora von Ober-Steiermark.' — V. v. Cypers, * Zur 

 Flora des Eiesengebirges.' 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc, 



At a public meeting of friends of Sir George King, K.O.I.E., 

 F.R.S., and Dr. D. D. Cunningham, C.I.E., F.R.S., held on 

 April 5, in the rooms of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, it was 

 resolved to commemorate the scientific labours and official careers 

 of these gentlemen in India by a permanent memorial in the form 

 of medallion portraits of both, to be placed in the Zoological 

 Gardens, with replicas of these portraits in the Asiatic Society's 

 rooms, and, should the funds admit, of a similar portrait of Sir 

 George King in the Eoyal Botanic Garden. J. O'B. Saunders, 

 Esq., 9, Hare Street, Calcutta, has undertaken to act as Honorary 

 Treasurer. 



One of the more recent contributors to North American sys- 

 tematic botany, Mr. Aven Nelson, has ingeniously introduced a 

 new mode of citing an author's name. In the Botanical Gazette 

 (March & April) he abbreviates his own name as '* Aven N." Mr. 

 Nelson does not even boast a hyphen in partial justification of this 

 method : so that, were it not for the restraining influence of British 

 common sense, we might at any time find " Botting H." or 

 " Claridge D." as the authority for a species. Mr. Nelson, how- 

 ever, is not restricted to one mode of citation, for in the May 

 Torreij Bidletin he appends "A. Nelson " to his species. 



" Of making of books there is no end." The Bidletin of Miscel- 

 laneous Information has started an "Additional Series," the first 



