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Bull, de VRerb. Boissier (4 July). — 0. deOaiidolle, ' Piperaceae 

 SodiroancTe.' — H. Schinz, ' Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Afrikanischen 

 Flora' [ConvolviilacecB, H. Hallier ; Labiat(B, M. Giirke ; Gompositm, 

 &c., H. Schinz). — E. v. Halacsy, 'Die bislier bekannten Centaurea- 

 arten Grriechenlands.' — H. Hallier, ' Neue und bemerkenswerte 

 Pflanzen aus dem malaiisch-papuauischen Inselmeer ' (concl.). — 

 H. Solereder, ' Buddlela Geisseana.' — A. Pestalozzi, 'Die Gattuug 

 Boscia.' 



Bull. Soc. Bot. France (xlv. pt. 1 : June). — G. Dismier, 'Flore 

 bryologique des environs de Paris.' — M. Gandoger, ' Notes sur la 

 flore espagnole.' — D. Clos, ' De la place dans la classification du 

 groiipe des Sanguisorbees.' — ■ M. Fliche, ' Notes sur la flore de 

 I'Yonne.' — E. Bescherelle, ' Florule Bryologique de Tahiti.' 



Erijthea (27 June). — A. Eastwood, Plants of Nob Hill, San 

 Francisco. 



Gardeners' Chronicle (25 June). — G. Henslow, ' History of the 

 Kadish ' (2 pi.). — Stapelia longidens (fig. 3). 



Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) — (1 July). H. & J. Groves, ' Characeae 

 collected by Mr. T. B. Blow in the West Indies ' (Nitella dictyo- 

 sperma, sp. n. ; 1 pi.). — F. N. Williams, ' Revision of Arenaria.' — 

 W. C. Worsdell, ' Comparative Anatomy of certain Cycadacese ' 

 (1 pi.). — G. G. Druce, ' Carex helvola in Britain.' — C. Reid, 

 * Limnocarpus, a new genus of fossil plants from the Tertiary 

 Deposits of Hampshire.' — D. H. Campbell, 'Structure and develop- 

 ment of Dendroceros ' (2 pi.). 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift (July). — F. Bubak, Synchitrium Niesslii, 

 sp. n. — F. Buchenau, ' Luzula campestris und verwandte Arten ' 

 (cont. : 1 plate). — J. Freyn, ' Zur Flora von Ober-Steiermark ' 

 (cont.). — T. Wulff, ' Studien liber verstopfte Spaltoft'uungen ' (1 pi.)- 

 — J. Murr, ' Die Pilosellorden Oberosterreichs.' — V. v. Cypers, 

 ' Zur Flora des Riesengebirges ' (concl.). 



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Continuations of three important works have lately come to 

 hand : Part v. of M. Cogniaux' monograph of the Orcliidacem of the 

 Flora Brasiliensis ; a new part of the Icones FlorcB Germanicce, con- 

 taining the Saxifragacece ; and the concluding part of Teil iii. of 

 Engler & Prantl's Pjianzejifamilien, containing the Cornacem and 

 the conclusion of the Umhellijerm, 



We have received the first part of Natal Plants, by Messrs. J. M. 

 Wood and M. S. Evans — a quarto publication issued at Durban 

 (Bennett & Davis, 68, Field Street). It contains fifty somewhat 

 roughly executed but accurate plates, with accompanying descrip- 

 tions, and should prove very useful to those interested in South 

 African botany, whether in the field or in the herbarium. The 



