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Euphorbiacee; and this fasciculus, by Dr. Müller, of Argau, is especially re- 
markable for the ouem of oa synonyms which have been classed from the 
examination of auth , for the profound treatment of the subject, 
and the remarkable intelligence of the natural method shown by its authors. 
Plants,” and introduces it with the remark that Med of the dee are given 
Mr. Watson for the south Severn province." But Mr. Watson's list, to 
which alone he can refer, excludes the deser introduced fur Nearly 
all the really British plants in Dr. St. Brody's list are enumerated in Mr. 
Watson’s list for south Severn. We would add that this mistake was known 
to us, and led to an erratum being put on the last page of the May — 
but as that may possibly be overlooked, it is perhaps advisable to insert here 
prominent correction, 
We are glad to be able to welcome Dr. David Moore and Mr. a: G. More's 
* Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica’ (London: Van Voors 
Several interesting botanical papers have been submitted to the panera of 
the British Association at Nottingham, on which we shall full 
One of our contributors, Mr. Ernst, is now in publishing in a Spanish weekly 
pa aracas, ‘El Provenir, an interesting series of articles on the most 
characteristic forms of the Venezuelan Flora, of which we have received nos. 6 
and 8, AK of the Palms. 
25th of June, died at wm Republie of Venezuela, Mr. Charles 
ioan, a aeg known botanical colléctor, who for many years resided in Vene- 
zuela, and was enabled to add ido to our knowledge of its flora. He was a 
German by birth and was seventy years of age when he died. His private her- 
barium has become the property of the British Museum 
It is gratifying to learn that the res disturbances on the Continent have 
not proved hurtful to the oldest sci body this side the Alps, the Imperial 
German oma Nature Curiosorum. nc the dern occupation idw 
stachys, a new genus of — plants belonging to Calamariee, by Dr. Goppert ; 
on saxicolous species of — by Dr. Stizenberger ; and on “Eu pty- 
In a letter to the ‘ Atheneum,’ Miss Isabella Gifford complains that Mrs. 
Lane Clarke has taken from her ‘ Marine Botanist’ the descriptions of all the 
classes, tribes, and genera, and incorporated them without acknowledgment in 
her ‘ Common Seaweeds.’ 
The next number of this Journal will probably contain a figure of the New- 
foundland Calluna, which is specifically distinct from our common Heather, 
but identical with the Iceland one and sacs Spes timi Bons Scotland. 
