124. - BOTANICAL NEWS. 
nacer, Ternstremiacee, Sapotacee and Ilicinee. A plan is given ex- 
hibiting the affinities, including these families, and others which, at a 
reater di stance, also bear some affinity to Hbenacee. A detailed accoünt 
of the family, the genera, and the species forms the chief ru of the paper. 
An alphabetical list of local names of the species, and diagrams for each 
genus, exhibiting the number of stamens in each lica ; conclude the 
monograph, which is illustrated by several plates 
Botanical Hews. 
curta IN rera: FOR lox me qm 
- Monthl Ly Micron pit Journal.—W. Carruthers. “On a leaf-bearing 
branch of a species of Lepidodendron.”—R. Br rai ip waite, “On Bog-Mosses," 
part 2. (Enumeration of the European specie 
Nuovo Giornale Botunico Italiano (31st PAR y). —G. de Venturi. 
* Mosses collected by Beccari at Bogos, in Abyssinia" (24 species, 20 
new. Beccaria, C. Müll. gen. nov., described. Appendix by De No- 
taris of 14 species, 2 new, collected by Figuri i in Si be —T. Caruel, 
“Andrea Cesalpino and his Book * De Plan —G. Passerini, “ Fungi 
Parmensi,” 1st part (Enumeration of 252 jedes of Agaricus, 7 new). 
—G. Zanardini, “ On some species of Schizymenia.” 
Botanische Zeitung.—J. Baranetzky, “ On the Influence of Certain pe 
ditions on the Transpiration of Plants."— E. v. Jane zewski, “On t 
Parasitic Habits of Nostoc lichenoides” n cells of Anthoceros levis, Blasia 
pusilla, and. Sphagnum acutifolium H. Hoffmann, “ Hernia of the Seeds - 
(3a se in Grapes” (tab. 2). Solves of Welwitsch's ‘ Sertum 
p ee 
lora. LE Kanitz, “ Recollections of a Botanical Le (Innsbruck).— 
C. pem a Observatii on Dr. Sauter's paper on the c Liver ME 
=J. Mü the 
* Cyathium" of Euphorbiacee.” —F. Arn old, “ Lichenological Fragments 
(tab. io EN cu of a Spring.—J : Klein, * * On the Anatomy of the 
edivigia. —F. Co ln, * Conspectus Familiarum Cryptogamarum, ete 
(printed at p. 114). Review of M. C. Cooke's * Handbook of the de 
yotheca Huropea.—Fase. XXIV. Nos. 1151-1200 (Dresden, Hn 
MEET the following new and rare species; each illustrated by seve 
excellent specimens :— Oedi ipodium Griffithianum, | Fissidens riae 
Ruthe, Glyphomitrium Daviesii, Sch., Eucalypta spathulata, C. Müll, 
Maium medium, Br. et Sch. y Grimmia sesailgma; D. Notaris, Fontinalis da- 
