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BOTANICAL NEWS. 
r, C. Beenitz, of Kenigsberg, has issued a new pu * his collection of 
PA plants of Northern and Central Germany, compri he Juncace@ and 
Cyperacee. The whole of this set, comprising ae: cR (price 18s.), may 
be ordered from Mr. E. Remer, of Gorlitz, publish 
uchenau has figured and described a Ex una p Lapageria rosea which 
incom: considerable horticultural interest, it having six instead of three inner 
a leaves. 
second issue of the fifth edition of Professor Asa Gray’s ‘ Manual of the 
prising, as it does, many small e Reon dc and other, as well as 
more considerable alterations and addition 
The New York * Nation ' of March 19 ue E a review of Darwin's * Vari- 
ation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, in which it is reiterated 
that Dr. Wells, an iR de in an anthropological paper read in 1813 before 
the Royal Society, was the first who recognized the principle of natural selec- 
tion. But in 1865, Pura Schultz-Schultzenstein already pointed out that 
his 
published in 1775, and that, ty whatever merit there M be in having 
— a theory was due to the great German naturalis 
H BOTANICAL Soorrry, February 13th. oe oe Jenner, Esq. 2 
eie in aie chair. The following communications were read :—1. Notice 
Old Calabar. Extracted diss e "s journals of the late Mr. W. G. Milne, 
by Mr. John Sadler. 3. Remar f Elymus, Triticum, and Phleum, 
from Vancouver’s Island. “By Professor Balfour. Under the name of Bunch- 
grass, several kinds of grasses have nt from Vancouver's Island and 
Botanie Garden under that name. One is a species of T'riticum, perhaps a 
variety of T. repens, of which specimens are now shown. The other is an 
lymus, which appears to be the E. condensatus of Presl. In this I am con- 
ed lo i 
grasse 
other plant sent turns out to be a hegre resembling P. . pratensis, aishough 
growing to a larger size. 4. Report on he Open-Air Vegetation in the Ro yal 
Mobi Gardons. M Mr Te b. 
vt tha fall 
q t:—“ om Rever- 
chon, botaniste à Briangon, Hautes Alpes, en F ti e pow 
la botanique, toutes les Alpes du Dauphiné, de eR Savoye et du , Piémont. m 
COILULMHS pl A 
centurie de ses plantes, sea largement rins de prix q 
été obligé de faire subir à oo lesquelles sont fixées haftet 
à 20 francs les 105 espèces. Les centuries sont expédiées et emballées avec le 
plus grand soin." 
