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b. Peduncles bent downwards. 
2. P. Nove-Hollandie, A. Braun. id Holland and Van Diemen's Land. 
3. P. Americana, A. Braun.  Arkans 
4. » minuta, Durieu. Southern gH and Northern Africa. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The Royal LL. has HIR one ^ the Royn Maa E the Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley, M.A., ic Botany, 
especially Mil ogy. 
e Historie Society for Lower Saxouy— Niedersachsen, as nearly the whole 
x northern Germany was formerly called—has offered a prize for the best essay 
* on the native plants of — Baxony, i in their relation to the mythology and 
superstitions of the Old Sax 
The third part of M. Tesdons Caruel’s * Flora of Tuscany ’ has been pabio, 
and comprises the monopetalous Calycifloræ, the Corollifloræ, and the Mon 
chlamydeæ. Part IV. will conclude this useful work. 
M. Jordan has in preparation a work to be called, * Icones Floræ Gallis et 
regionum vicinarum 'reformatz, to be issued every two months, and to com- 
prise coloured illustrations, with analysis, of the French species, 
The Imperial L. C. German Academy Nature Curiosorum has lately con- 
Persoon and Dawson Turner were Reeg the last on 
viii this honour was conferred by that body ; and in resuming thé confer- 
ring of degrees in medicine and philosophy, it is understood that no fees of 
any M will be charged. 
The r$ Chronicle, in noticing the extremely low prices fetched by 
the dried plants | at the sale of the collections of the Linnean Society, remarks : 
“Upon the whole, these things may be said to have been given away. Was 
botany i. tn extremis? or what was the matter?” We believe the commercially 
unsatisfactory result of this sale finds à ready explanation in the faet, that not 
suffieiently long notice had. been given of the intended sale by means of public 
8. 
for that kind of friendly intercourse, the ving and receiving help, mutual. 
civilities, etc., beneficial to both the writer and the reader, 
responden 
Dr. Schweinfurth, of Berlin, has started for E with th 
grin botanically the Sin rasa whi deer 
Mr. William 
the querist and the 
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