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J. Hooker, who remarks that its nearest allies in the British Flora are 

 Arenaria verna and A. rubella. 



2891. Saxifraga umbrosa, ^. serratifoUa. 



2892. Saxifraga elegans. These plants are figured from specimens 

 under cultivation in the College Botanic Garden at Dublin. The 

 descriptions are by Mr. Babington. 



Notice of the ' London Journal of Botany.'' No. 37, January, 1845. 



This number contains the following papers. 



' A Note upon the Genus Sarcobatus, Nees.'' By Professor Lind- 

 ley. Ph. D., &c. &c. 



'Plantae cellulares quas in Tnsulis Philippinensibus a el. Cuming 

 collectse recensuit observationibus non nullis descriptionibusque il- 

 lustravit C. Montague, D.M.' 



' Characters of two new Plants discovered in British Guiana;' by 

 the Chevalier Robt. H. Schomburgk, K.R.E., &c. ^7 



Under the head of ' Botanical Information,' we find an agreeable 

 and readable portion of a ' Journal of a Botanical Mission to the West 

 Indies in 1843-4, by William Purdie, collector for the Royal Botanic 

 Garden at Kew.' This article also contains, as usual, notices of new 

 botanical works. 



* Decades of Fungi,' by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 

 Those now published are Australian. 



Notice of ' Mycologia Britannica, or Specimens of British Fungi.'' 

 By Philip B. Ayres, M.D. Fasc. 1, 4to. Pamplin, London. 



We have derived much pleasure from the examination of the 1st 

 fasciculus of this useful work, the publication of which was an- 

 nounced on the wrapper of our January number. It contains speci- 

 mens of fifty species of minute parasitical Fungi, belonging to the 

 following genera : — Puccinia, ^cidium, Erysiphe, Uredo, Aregma, 

 Dothidea and Botrytis. Each species has the scientific and English 

 names, locality, time of perfection, and reference to the description 

 in the second vol. of ' British Flora.' The specimens are beautifully 

 preserved and neatly mounted. We wish the work all the success it 

 deserves. 



