198 BOTANICAL ^^EWS. 
Now they have completely lost this character, and taken a dark-green 
hue, which furnishes a strong contrast to their original tinge. More 
than this, M. BavouXj to whom I had communicated my observations, 
has ascertained a fact not less remarkable than the preceding. This 
zealous botanist, having met with S, anreum in the meadows on the 
borders of the Ognon, transplanted it to his garden, where the green 
tint was perfectly preserved ; but wishing to rid himself of it he planted 
it on an old wall, and in this new position the plant changed from 
green to glaucous, and became S, elegam^ whilst a portion, accidentally 
left behind in the garden^ still preserved the hue of aureumr 
Perhaps the weakest part of the whole * Plore de Prance ' was the 
genus Uom^ for which M. Grenier was responsible. Not only were a 
large number of clearly-marked forms, which were known as French^ 
passed over without notice, but the difference between stalked and 
sessile carpels was both difficult of application as employed to distin- 
guish primary groups, and when applied produced unnatural combina- 
tions and severances. M. Grenier has now abandoned it, and worked 
out what seems to us a much better plan of classification, and he recog- 
nizes and carefully describes for the Jura alone nearly twice as many 
species as in 1848 he aeknoAvledges for the whole of France, We may 
note, also, that abandoning the lead of M. Soyer-Willemet, he now 
adopts the nomenclature for the yellow-flowered species of Trifolium^ 
followed by nearly all our English writers, justifying in a note, which 
is too long for quotation, the change in his views. There is only a 
meagre account of the fruticose Rubi^ but we are promised a fuller one 
before the work closes. The want of an explanation with regard to 
the limits of the tract of country embraced, detracts from the value of 
the book, from the geographical point of view, but doubtless this will 
be duly attended to in the concluding part. 
BOTANICAL NEWS, 
The Eev. M. J. Berkeley has been appointed one of the Examiners in Bo- 
tany in the London University. 
A movement has been set on foot in Melbourne for organizing an expedition 
to search for Leichhardt and his party. It is not thought beyond the range 
of possibility that some of the lost travellers may still be alive. 
* The second part of Dr. Seemann's * Kora Yitiensis ' is completed. 
