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value. The characters assigned (l. c. p. 443) to his subtribes Furu- 
elliee and Strobilanthee ave not differential, containing nothing to aid 
in distinguishing one from the other. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The seventh part of Seemann's * Flora Vitiensis has just been completed, 
and includes the Urticee, Ceratophyllee, Piperacee, Chloranthacee, Casua- 
rinee, Conifere, and Cycadee. 
gassiz’ * Journey in Brazil’ (London : Trabner and Co.) contains many 
scattered botanical notes and some good woodcuts, illustrative of South Ame- 
rican vegetation. a chief aim of Agassiz’ great expedition is stated in this 
work to have been to obtain “ bod means of showing that the transmutation 
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theory is wholly w itho ut 1 in facts.” 
Dr. N. J. 
Anderson, of Stockholm, sends us his interesting ‘Apergu de la. 
. Végétatipn et des Plantes Cultivées de la Suéde.’ 
The second and concluding volume of Robert Brown's ‘ Miscellaneous Bo- 
tanical Works’ (containing Systematic Memoirs and Contributions to Syste- 
matic works), edited gd em J. J. Bennett, F.R.S., and published by the Ray 
Society, has just been is 
Dr. Hanstein, of ds ‘te published a ‘Synopsis of the Natural Orders 
for the use of Botanical Lost" to which we would wish to draw attention 
as vocem d some novel combinations. 
nk, of Würzburg, has been pesi optime: of the Botanic 
Garden of Leipzig, vacant by the death of Dr. Met 
Mr. Ed. Otto, Curator of the Botanic diim. t "ations has lately 
bought a large nursery at Altona, and no longer holds the official position. 
He will soak to sese the Hamburg ‘ Gartenzeitung,' so ably edited by 
him for man 
BOTANICAL dris or EpINBURGH.— Thursday, 12th December. Charles 
— Esq., page in the chair.—The following communications were 
ead :—I. On the Nature of the Discoloration of the Arctic Seas. By 
Robe wi Esq., F IL. o ora of Rannoch, Perthshire 
B 
noch, that part of Perthshire which drains into Loch Rannoch—a lake 
about eleven miles in length, lying east and west, and closely approached on 
its longer sides by high mountains, but more open at either end—at the 
east where the Tummel flows out to discharge itself into the Tay, and at the 
west, where the tributary streams from Lochs Ganer, Lydoch, etc., wind 
through the desolate moor of aise to swell the dark waters of the lake. 
The mountains, unlike those of the Breadalbane range, are well clothed, 
to some height, with heather and great beds of the fragrant Myrica, and, on 
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