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There is yet a third Part to be expected, treating of the segregate 
species, and the “ aliens " and “casuals.” We trust Mr. Watson will 
have bealth and leisure to complete it. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Professor Behn, of Hamburg, has been elected, by the majority of the 
Council of President Adjuncts, President of the Imperial German Academy 
Nature Curiosorum, and has accepted the office. 
Mr. Kurz, of ed "sis us a reprint of his ‘Supplementary Remarks ' 
to his ‘ Revision o -pines’ (Seem. Journ. Bot. Vol. V. p. 93), which 
he has tei in the J acid of ‘the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and we also 
receive a translation of ions made by Dr. Hasskarl, and recently puso 
in the Ratisbon Flora. Mr. Kurz does not seem to have noticed the remarks 
on Sandwich Island auc. made by the late Horace Mann in his ‘ Enu- 
meration of Hawaiian Plants’ (Proceedings of American Academy). The fol- 
a > 
Indica, p. 102, read drupe valde convex, for “concave.” Pandanus levis, 
p. 127, read spadix masc., etc., sed he levissime, instead of “ brevissime. 
Mr. Kurz has also printed in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
Professor Alexander Braun has y 
papers on ote Kirki, of New Zealand, a malformation of Podocarpus Chi- 
nensis, and some Oaks struck by lightning which, as well as all that proceeds 
from the pen Fi that thoughtful id conscientious botanist, will be studied with 
interest and profit. 
The last published part of De Candolle's * Prodromus’ contains the follow- 
ing Natural Orders :— Daphniphyllacee and Buracee, by Müller Arg. ; Empe 
tree and Cannabinee, by Alph. de Candolle ; Urticee, by Weddell; Piperacec, 
by Casim. de Candolle; Chloranthacee, by Solms; and Garryacee, by Alph. 
de Candolle. Ths next part is to complete this great work, but we hope and 
trust that the editor may be induced to reconsider his resolve, and not exclude 
to Indeed, the extension of the 
rodromus’ is of such vital importance, that all our academies and natural 
history societies ought to assist, by all cues in their power, even largely, 
pecuniarily, if it should be required, to pro 
fessor Oliver has published a most ate handbook, entitled, ‘ First 
Book of Indian Botany’ (Macmillan and Co)., an adaptation of the author's 
* Lessons in Elementary Botany,’ for use in India. 
vOL. Vit. [DECEMBER 1, 1869. ] 2p 
