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derived from the nppei' strata have a much greater tendency to undergo 

 acid fermentation and coagulation than those derived from the lower 

 strata. 



The Journal of the Nat. Hist. Soc, Bomhay, contains some interest- 

 ing notes, by Mrs. J. 0. Lisboa, on the odoriferous grasses (Andropo' 

 gons) of India and Ceylon, with a description of a supposed new species 

 (A. odorafns), from Lanowli, of which a plate is given. Mr. G. Car- 

 stensen contributes a paper on facilitating the study of Botany and 

 proposes the use of a simple English terminology. Mrs. W. B. Hart 

 communicates some notes on Branching Palms, illustrated with two 

 plates. 



The Supplement to the late Edmund Boissier's Flora Orientalis, 

 published at the end of 1888, contains Dr. Aitchison's additions to the 

 Afghan flora, except the most recent, and a valuable index to all the 

 collector's numbers cited throughout the work. 



In the Journal of the Linnean Society, Mr. C B. Clarke has a 

 valuable paper on the Plants of Kohima and Mauipur, with descriptions 

 of several new species, illustrated with 44 plates and containing 

 notices of 1,050 species of flowering plants or ferns, or probably less 

 than one-fifth of the flora of the district, traversed from Gola Ghat 

 via Kohima and Manipur to Cachar. 



The Journal of Botany contains a systematic and structural account 

 of the genus Avrainvillea, Deene, by G. Murray and L. A. Boodle ; 

 also a note, by Col. R. H. Beddome, on two new ferns, from the N. W. 

 Himalaya. — Asplenium (Athyrium) Duthei, from Kumaon, 12 — 1.3,000 

 feet ; and A. (A) MacdonelU, from Chumba valley, 5,000 feet. Dr. 

 Trimen contributes additions to the Flora of Ceylon, 1885 to 1888. 



In the Acta-Horti-PetropoUtani, are several important papers ou 

 Central-Asian botany, among which may be noted, a continuation of 

 C. Winkler's Lists of new Gompositoi of Turkistan ; descriptions, by 

 E. A. Wainio, P. A. Karsten and V. F. Brotherus, of the Turanian plants 

 collected by Dr. Walter and Radde F. v. Herder gives an account of 

 the geographical distribution of the apetalous plants collected by Dr. 

 Radde, many of which are Indian. Mr. C. J. Maximovicz contributes 

 a memoir of Prjevalsky, with a portrait ; and in the Bulletin de I ' Aca- 

 demie Imperials des Sciences de St. Petersburg he has continued his 

 Diagnoses of new Asiatic plants. 



In the Bihang till Kongl. Svensha Vetensk-Akad. Handlingar, is a 

 paper by G. Lagerheim on Desmidiacea from Bengal, with remarks on 

 the geographical distribution of the order in Asia. 



Economic Botany. Under the direction of Sir E. Buck, in the 

 Revenue and Agricultural Department of the Government of India, a 



