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to class it with W. Brasiliensis, whilst Professor Grisebach (Fl. W. 
Ind. Islands, London, 1864, p. 512) has described it as a distinct 
species (omitted by our author), under the name of JF. punctata. In 
quoting the English habitat of JF. arrhiza we note two misprints. It 
should be Staines, Trimen, etc., p. 219, instead of Raines, Trimen, p. 
21. 
We should have been glad to see Latin generic and specific charac- 
ters besides the German, and trust that, in any future monograph,— 
for the author, we are sure, will not drop the subject in its present 
state,—he will give them to us. We are also sorry to find that he has 
erred with Dr. Milde in his otherwise excellent monograph on Zguise- 
tum, in not giving us a complete index, so as to be able to find a 
synonym instantly, instead of having to search through the whole 
book for it. 
The author fully discusses the geographical range of the different 
species. About one half of the species are common to the tropical 
and extratropical countries, the other half consists of species peculiar 
either to the tropics or extratropical parts. They are excluded from 
the Polar regions. 
Dr. Hegelmaier thanks those botanists who, during his investiga- 
tions, have supplied him with specimens, ee and suggestions ; 
but now that he has shown what go e he has made of them, and 
what numerous blanks still remain to be filled up before we can say 
un our ae of this small, but interesting group of plants is 
—he will probably receive considerable additions; and those 
exhi who should wish to make communications to him will be 
glad to know that any addressed to ** Dr. Hegelmaier, Tübingen," will 
reach him. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
` We rejoice to hear that Mr. Thiselton Dyer is a candidate for Dr. Lee's 
Readership i in Anatomy, at tsm "ien Oxford, the duties of which are to 
give lectures on Biological subje 
We hare received full and ds particulars respecting the share which 
Dr. Hooker is alleged to have had in preventing certain honourable distinctions 
— conferred upon some of the Englishmen who visited the great Horticul- 
ural Exhibition at St. Petersburg. 
