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flora of the uplands. The plants found in these different stations, 

 especially in the Tertiary epoch, are sketched out. E. B. T. 



Saporta, Count G. de, and A. F. Marion. Recherches sur les Yege- 

 taux fossiles de Meximieux (Ain). [Fossil Plants of Meximieux]. 

 Arch. Mils. Lyon, t.i. livr. 5, 6, pp. 185-335, pis. 28-38, continued : 

 see Geological Recoed for 1875, p. 339. 



Traces the development of the said Pliocene flora by the decline and 

 elimination of earlier Tertiary types, the Eocene forms retreating first 

 (their representatives being now found in Africa, S. Asia, «&c.). Those 

 taking their places spread out laterally to America and Japan, causing 

 a uniformity in the N. temperate flora of that time. In the 

 Pliocene epoch this was broken up; the delicate species succumbed 

 first, the gradual retreat southwards of some types being traced from 

 Lyons to the Yal d'Arno, &c. ' In the description of species, where the 

 Pliocene form seems not specifically distinct from the modern one, it 

 is written thus : Acer Icetum, Mey. {pliocenicum), which is considered 

 as the parent form of 3 or 4 varieties now living in Asia. In all 

 32 species, of which 12 are living, are adduced. The new species 

 are Daphne princeps, Diospyros protolotus, Anona Lorteti, Buxus plio- 

 cenica, Punica Planchoni (formerly placed as a variety of the recent 

 pomegranate). [Torreya bilinica, n. sp., is established incidentally on 

 an example from Bilin, termed Sequoia Langsdorfii by Ettingshausen;] 

 Torreya nucifera, var. hrevifolia is a variety of the form living in 

 Japan. Juglans minor was formerly termed Carya minor. E. B. T. 



Schenk, Prof. XJeber die Eruchtstande der fossilen Equisetineen. 

 [Fructification of Fossil Equisetacese.] I. Annularia. Botanische 

 Zeitmig, pp. 530-539. II. Sphenophyllum, pp. 626-634. 



A review of the literature relating to these fruits, and an estimate of 

 the views entertained regarding them. 



Schmalhausen, J. Die Pflanzenreste aus der Ursastufe im Fluss- 



geschiebe des Ogur in Ost-Sibirien. [Plants of the Ursa Stage 



found in Pebbles in the Ogur, E. Siberia.] Bull. Ac. Imp. 8t. 



Petersh. vol. xxii. pp. 277-291, pis. i.-iv. 



In coarse sandstone-pebbles in the Ogur, a tributary of the Yenesei, a 



number of fossils have been found, among them Knorria imhricata and 



Cyclostigma Kiltorkense, supplying additional information as to these 



species ; and 4 new species — Filicites oguroisis, Bergeria alternans, B. 



regularis, and Lepidostrohus gracilis. W. C. 



. Yorlaufiger Bericht iiber die Resultate mikroskopischer 



Untersuchungen der Futterreste eines sibirischen Rhinoceros 

 antiquitatis sen tichorhinus. [Food-remains of a Siberian Rhino- 

 ceros tichorhinus.'] Bull. Ac. Imp. Sci. St. Petersh. t. xxii. pp. 

 291-295. 

 Enumerates various plant-remains found in hollows in the teeth, 

 mostly monocotyledons, but some dicotyledons of recent arctic and 

 subarctic species. 



