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tubus fructifer globosus, lzevissimus, subbaccatus. Vegetatio fruticosa, 
terminalis, ramis (inflorescentiis depauperatis) spinescentibus. Flores- 
centia adscendens ! 
- S. spinosa, L. (sub Poterio), iios De Cesati.—Sarcopoterium 
spinosum, Spach. 
Bencomia, Webb, Phytogr. Canar. ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. (Po- 
terii sect. Leiopoterium, De Cand. ex p.) omni jure a Sanguisorba 
separatur. Flores dioiei: masculi calyce quadripartito absque tubo, 
staminibus numerosis imo calyci insertis ; feminei carpidiis 2-4. Tu- 
bus calycis fructifer globosus, lios cum acheniis osseis in 
drupam 2-4-locularem concretus. Vegetatio arborescens. Spice 
axillares elongatæ. — Florescentia adscendens.—Species 2 Canarienses : 
B. caudata, Ait. (sub Poterio), et B. Moquiniana, Webb et Bert 
Species Sanguisorbe, nobis incognitæ, quoad sectionem dubiæ sunt: 
S. diandra, Wall. (an e sect. Poteridii ?) et Poterium Indicum, Gardn. 
ex ins. Ceylon. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Dei Funghi Sospetti e Velenosi del Territorio Senese. Per Francesco 
Valenti-Serini, Dottore in Medicina, ecc. ece. Turin: 1868. Fol. 
Before Dr. Valenti-Serini had commenced writing this book on sus- 
pected and poisonous Fungi, he should atleast have learned something 
about the genus Agaricus; and before he began the illustrations he 
might, for his own sake, have taken some lessons in rudimentary draw- 
ing. For what information can we expect from one who is totally igno- 
rant of the subgenera of Agaricus, unacquainted with the colour of the 
spores, cannot tell a brown- or purple-spored Agaric from a white- 
spored one, and who ignores such genera as Russula and Marasmius ? 
The plates, fifty-six in number, and “ carefully coloured after nature,” 
are the worst we have ever seen ; they not only display an ignorance of 
drawing of which a school-girl would be ashamed, but the gaudy co- 
lours are daubed on with such an unsparing hand, that the drawings, 
if depended upon, would be sure to mislead. Few botanical subjects 
require such minute attention to subtile details as Fungi; but here 
they are so coarsely and falsely drawn, and so incorrectly coloured, 
as to make it difficult to believe they were taken from nature at 
