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BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Mr. W. G. Smith has published (Hardwicke, London) two large coloured 
sheets of fungi, the one of edible and the other of poisonous or doubtful 
species. Mr. Smith has made this subject so thoroughly his own, and his 
pencil so faithfully depicts the plants he loves, — as our readers know, — that it 
is unnecessary to say that they are admirable portraits of the various species. 
We hope they will soon be hung in every school-room in England. If our 
children became acquainted with the numerous valuable species we would have 
a valuable addition to our indi genous articles of food, which would not only 
give a relish but considerable nourishment to the consumer. The drawings are 
accompanied with a small volume of letter-press, in which Mr. Smith narrates 
his own experiences and gives many valuable hints as to the collection, habitats, 
characters, and cooking of his pets. 
Every working botanist will rejoica in the appearance of the first instalment 
°t Dr. Anderson's ' Monograph ia Salicum hucusque cognitarum.' It con- 
tains 103 species, and is illustrated by plates. The concluding part is soon to 
follow. M. Bureau has published, in the ■ Revue des Cours Scientifiques,' a 
popular address he delivered on Coal Plants,- with woodcuts of the principal 
types. The same subject is dealt with in an article in the current number of 
the 'Popular Science Review,' by Mr. W. Carruthers, in which he brings to- 
gether some of the interesting discoveries he has made as to the structure 
and affinities of the remarkable plants of this period. Mr. John Hogg 
sends us his < Ballast Flora of the Coasts of Durham and Northumber- 
land,' reprinted from the ■ Annals of Natural History/ which is worth 
wading. From Dr. Francis Buchcnau, of Bremen, we have two interest- 
ln g contributions, ' The Inilorescence of Juncacece? and ' Index Criticus 
Jimcaginearum hucusque descriptarum.' Mr. Alfred Kirchhoff furnishes a 
well-writtaa pamphlet on « Wolffs and Goethe's Ideas on the Metamorphosis 
of Plants,' which we should like to see rendered into English. Dr. J. E. 
Ranchon has delivered a discourse on ' Rondelet et ses Disciples, ou la Bo- 
tonique a Montpellier au XVIme Siecle;' to which, in conjunction with Prof. 
a - Planchon, he has published, in the ■ Montpellier Medical,' an appendix. 
Both are valuable contributions to the history of botany. From Dr. Ferdi- 
nand von Herder we have an 'Enumeration of the monopetalous plants collected 
*T G. Radde in S.E. Siberia,' illustrated by plates representing Loniceras and 
Viburnums. Dr. Kegel supplies a systematic list of all the different sorts of 
a Pples cultivated in Kussia — a precursor of a much larger work, to be published 
at the request of the St. Petersburg Horticultural Society. From our esteemed 
Respondent, Dr. Hance, of Macao, we receive his ■ Adversaria in Stirpes 
lm i>Hmis A e orientals criticas minusve notas, interjectis novarum plurima- 
**m ^axmbm. 9 It is full of new and instructive matter. Professor Alex- 
andt * Braun establishes a new genus of Scrophularinea (Schweinfurlhia), 
