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à forward direction is arrested. Herr Kohler supplied me with living 
specimens, which flowered last summer. I fouud that the restraining pro- 
cess, by which the form of the foliage leaves was so curiously modified, 
extended also to the carpellary leaves, and that the axes of these was 
hylla deviates from typical Fra- 
garia vesca.—(From the ‘ Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift,’ 1870, 
p- 
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Hew Publications. 
Thesaurus Literature Botanica, omnium gentium inde a rerum botanicarum 
initiis ad nostra usque tempora, quindecim millia operum recensens. Edi- 
ionem novam reformatam curavit G. A. PniTZEL. Fasciculus I. 
(Pp. 80.) Leipzig. 1872. 
the most useful botanical book ever printed. This first part only gets to 
The original edition appeared at the end of 1851, so that full twenty 
years have since elapsed, during which time there has been an immense 
accession to botanical literature, rendering a new edition of the * The- 
saurus' an urgent desideratum. To judge from this first part, the author 
