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elm, burdock, colt’s-foot, algae, a moss, and a thistle. The 
paper from the mallow is distinctly the best. 
Dr. L. H. Bailey has presented the first issue of his Gentes 
Herbarum ; also Annals of Horticulture in North America, 1891, 
completing the Kew set; and Blackberries of New England— 
their classification, by E. Brainerd and A. K. Peitersen. 
From Mr. R. T. Baker, who, in collaboration with Mr. Henry 
G. Smith, had previously produced two fine quartos, one, 
A Research on the Pines of Australia, and the other, A Research 
on the Eucalypts, especially in regard to their essential oils, has 
published and presented a copy of a third volume,The Hardwoods 
of Australia and their Economics. 
The following have been received from their respective 
authors or editors :—Hiude . . . de la famille des Turnér- 
acées, by M. G. Berger; Dr. S. H. Koorders: {An account of 
his life and work], by E. H. B. Brascamp; Pflanzenphdnologische 
Beobachtungen in Finland, by V. F. Brotherus, 1912-1913, and 
other papers; Révision des Cypéracées de Madagascar, by H. 
Chermezon; A monograph of the genus Dryopteris, by Carl 
Christensen, part 2; Eubasidiomycetes Lusitanici Herbarit Univer- 
. Sttatis Olisiponensis, by A. X. P. Coutinho; Mission forestiére et 
agricole du Comte Jacques de Briey au Mayumbe (Congo Belge), 
by E. De Wildeman, who has also presented several of his smaller 
works ; An account of the Herbarium of the University of Oxford, by 
G. C. Druce and 8. H. Vines, from Dr. Druce: Insect Pests and 
Fungus Diseases of Fruit and Hops, by P. J. Fryer; Economic 
Trees and their By-products, and The Soil and its care, by Mrs. M. 
Grieve; Forests, Woods and Trees in relation to Hygiene, by 
Augustine Henry; Pastimes for the Nature Lover, by Stanley C. 
Johnson; The Botany of Iceland, edited by L. Kolderup Rosen- 
vinge and Eug. Warming, vol. ii, part 1: Revision critica e 
aconografica de las plantas barrilleras de Espana, by B. Lazaro e 
Ibiza; Pine-apple Disease of Sugar Cane, by T. Miyake; Flora 
sylvatica Koreana, part 8, and Report on the Veyetation of the 
Island Ooryongto or Dagelet Island, Corea, by T. Nakai; 
The Vegetation of Northern Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, by 
G. E. Nichols; Practical Plant Biochemistry, by Mrs. M. Wheldale 
Onslow; Las Chlorideas de la Reiiblica Argentina, by L. R. 
Parodi; Gli Arboreti Sperimentali di Vallombrosa, by L. Piccioli ; 
Two preglacial Floras from Castle Eden, &c., by Mrs. Clement 
Reid; Phanerogamic Flora of the Divisions of Uitenhage and 
Port Elizabeth (Memoir no. 1 of the Botanical Survev of South 
Africa), by S. Schonland; the same, and a copy of the Dutch 
edition, from Dr. I. B. Pole Evans, Director of the Survey ; 
The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island, 
edited by Carl Skottsberg, vol. ii (Botany), part 1; The Travels : 
of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, edited by Lt.-Col. Sir R. C. 
Temple, Bt., vol. iii; Index to the Genus Rhododendron, by E. H. 
Wilding; Journal of Archibald Menzies kept during his three 
visits to the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands in the years. 1792-1794, 
edited and annotated by W. F. Wilson. ‘ 
