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200 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. ' [ August, 
THE SIXTH EDITIONOf Dietrich’s Furst-Flora, “a description of the 
most important trees and shrubs for the forester,” has just been com- 
pleted by the publication of the sixtieth lieferung. It forms two larg 
quarto volumes, with 300 colored plates. Dr. von Thiimen, the editor, 
i ongratulated upon the completion of so valuable a work for 
forestry interests. 
DISCOVERY, at Kew, of a sensitive labellum in Masdevallia, an 
THE 
Australian orchid, adds to the attractions of that already richly dowered 
group of plants. An insect alighting on the labellum is lifted up at first 
slowly, then suddenly as if with a click is caught in the box formed when 
the lip is ¢ . In about twenty minutes the lip descends and is as 
irritable as before. 
A 
will find that it occurs abundantly in the vessels of the leaf-stalks of 
Plantago major, and also in several other species. Fischer finds the quan- 
— better than any one else can, but to an outsider the change looks 
ike a step downward from a high plane. 
DIz NATURLICHEN PFLANZENFAM i d- 
NA ILIEN appears with most comment 
ins rapidity, and the work continues of the sande high grade, both 1m 
: € matter of text and illustration. The eighth part, just at hand, con- 
inues the discussion of the Gymnosperme, begun in the third and fourth 
symbrium humifusum is an Arabis, and is foun 
fe and on the west coast of Hudson’s Bay. 
HE ADDRESS of Axel Blytt, on “Distributi ” before the 
: j on of Plants, 0 
eotics A eigen of the Association of Scandinavian Naturalists, 18 pub: 
tribution p lants j rnal of Botany. His opening sentence is, “ The dis- 
art “Teli Plants is essentially dependent on climate.” His last Wor 
sack Bimtiaes ae Procession of the equinoxes to be a natural ae 
governed oe the soles and that the distribution of species is essentl ie 
ical changes in the earth’s orbit 
sre Bh nby; from an originator’s ste 
Sditas ; mologist’s stand-point, W. B. / ] 
HA Wenn Pont J.J. Jauney; and Gin a chemist’s stand-point, Fig 
red he bers ao foe mening the memes per 
resent from the epi ’s stand-point, wale 
n f icure’s stan 
0 doubt the most delightful stand-coknt of all. : gant: 
