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The Plants hiiigenom to the Colony of Victoria, described by F. 
Mueller, Ph.D., F.R.S., etc. Melbourne : 1864-5. Lithograuis, 4to. 
This volume of plates lias beeu issued separately, whilst the print- 
ing of the descriptive portion of the work is very properly deferred 
until Bentham's * Flora of Australia ' shall have sufficiently ad- 
vanced not to interfere with the continuation of the enumeration of all 
the Victorian plants which Dr. Mueller is prepared to give, and has 
partly ready for press. The lithograms are 64 in number, and exe- 
cuted by Schonfeldj of Melbourne, They are a great improvement 
upon those we have had from the same artist, being less shaded than 
his previous ones, and the analyses are clearer, and thus much more in- 
telligible. But for uncoloured plants there is, even now, too mnch 
shading. The work is published at Government expense, highly cre- 
ditable to the colony, and of real semce to science. 
BOTANICAL NEWS 
An advertisement conreniently reminds us that on the 9th of September, 
1866, the Physical and Natural History Society of Geneva will award a prize 
of 500 francs to the best monograph of a genus or Natural Order of plants. 
The monograph must be sent in before the 1st of July next, may be wttitten 
either in Latin or French, and if its publication in the Society's Transactions 
should be objected to by the author, it will be returned to him. Our readers 
are aware that this prize was founded by the great De Candolle, and is given 
away every fifth year. 
Professor Goppert's long-expected essay on the ' Enclosures in Diamonds,' 
to which we drew attention some months ago, has now been pubhshed, illus- 
trated with plates. Some of the bodies enclosed are undistinguisliable from ger- 
minating spores of fungi. 
Mr. E. Tate, F.O.S., the author of the ' Flora of Belfast/ is gone to the 
Shetland Islands, as a member of a commission appointed by the Anthropolo- 
gical Society, and will carefully attend to the vegetation of these islands as far 
as the main object of his visit will permit, * 
Professor Crepin announces the publication of an enlarged edition of his 
'Manuel de la Flore de Belgique' (G.Mayolez, of Brussels). Subscribers will 
receive the wort for five francs. The 'Eevue' of the Belgian Flora, which 
that indefatigable author has promised us, is unavoidably deferred. 
The scheme for an International Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical Con- 
gress, which it is proposed to hold in London ui May, 1866, is actively prose- 
cuted. Subscriptions to a large amount have been received, and a guarantee 
fund of several thousand pounds has been formed- The executive committee has 
