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which the anthers have the ordinary structure. A full index is added, 
and completes a memoir, which surely well deserves the quinquennial prize 
of the Geneva Society which it ws for its author. 
e are glad to hear t . Watson’s health is sufficiently re- 
established to oan him to seri with the — of a summary of 
the distribution of British iste through the counties and unties. 
This will really complete the valuable ‘Compendium,’ and put a fnishing 
e to the author’s labours in the field of British geographi 
The * Nuovo Giornale Botanico ' has now reached the end of the t 
volume. It will be in future edited by Professor T. Caruel, who has suc- 
ceeded the late Pr Mn P Savi at Pisa. 
In the Acta Soc. Scient. Fennicæ (vol. x. p. 118), Dr. S. O. Lindberg 
has jet anco a critical n revision of the figures of Mosses contained in the 
“ Flora 
'The Poin published parts of sione £ retainers contain the 
Orders genda, Papaveracea, and Ca 
ntury of M. C. Cooke’s * Sens Britanniei? has been recently 
issued, and contains a useful selection 
The first number of the * adducts’ Meque for 1872, contains a 
fT aud description, by W. G. Smith, of a w Peziza, found by Mr. 
J. Chater, some two years back, at the Gonville Nurseries, Cambridge ; ; 
^ is named P. ( Humaria ia) Chateri. 
rofessor Grisebach’s great work on the Vegetation of the Globe is 
published at Leipzig. We hope to give an extended notice shortly. 
It is stated that the Rev. W. A. Leighton — to publish a Con- 
he is aE a second edition of his ‘ Lichen Plora of Great Britain,’ 
i contain an introduction, glossary, and index. 
ected, in abundance, near Verdun, in Burgun dy, 
Tgthrun Salzmanni, Jord., a species allied to Z. yadan s and L. À hys- 
sopifolium, and n ot hitherto noticed, we believe, out of the Mediterranean 
region. It ig he sas in the fortheoming centuries of Billot's * Ex- 
siccata, n. 
In the Cien ad of the * Popular Science pore 
there is a pen y Mr. A. W. Bennett, on e oad " 
Pris genera of the ii separated Orders Poipyelecen, Phytolacca- 
Molpighiocer. 
umber of Huy for the ‘Scottish Naturalist,’ which now seems 
well cata bika, aud e y deserves all all encouragement, t : 
Buchanan White, in allusion to Professor Thiselton Dyer's note on Ezo- 
"uar Vaccinii ou Bot. 1871, p. 329), mentions that he has seen 
in Ross-shire A rre and Inverness Uns cup apad as well as Perth 
and esty n. He adds, that * there seems to be 
dissimilar in appearance to the Fungus.” We should like to see ala 
ne, a Scotch botany in the pages of the * Scottish ceder 
At a ut meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical So- 
ciety, Mr. C. agri suggested that British botanists should record on the 
labels of Plants for distribution the province and vi unty of Mr. 
Watson's * Compend um of the ey bele i as well as the locality. 
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