BOTANICAL NEWS. 159 
the low price - five shillings to subseribers, who should send their names 
or pa the author. 
bru great regret, from the last year's Report of the East 
kat: Netiral History Society, that in spite of a grant by the Society 
in 1870, scarcely any progress has as yet been made with the county Flora. 
The secretary of the sub-committee found the work he had undertaken 
uch for him, and resigned his post, which no one at present seems 
. It will n ot 
hand this urgent desideratum in English botany. 
The following living terrestrial Orchids were rse by Mr. Needle, 
gardener to H.R.H. the Comte de Paris, Twickenham, at the shows of: 
tire Royal Horticultural Society, April Ta and the Royal Botanic Society, 
April 10th :— Ophrys tenthredinifera, O . Bertolonii, O. ferrum-equinum 
O. aranifera, O. bombyliflora, O. apiculata, O. aranifera, O. speculum, 
Magazine :' —** Professor MacOwan, of Somerset East, writing to us of the 
extensive and well-arranged herb which he has created at the Gill 
College, says, * Every plant added since my arrival in = colony is 
fairly gotten by exchange ne e by my own bow and s The Cape 
section ofthe herbarium contains a fine set of Burchell's plants collected 
el ee 14; sve from need and sr ins Drége and o ers; - more 
pondition of the herbarium in reference eye American, Padan, Australian, 
ien other plants, which are well solvate ted, are given; there is a nearly 
complete series of Mauritian Ferns by Sir H. Barkly, K.C.B., now 
Governor of the Cape Colony. In the remarks which follow this letter of 
Professor onm the Cape Government herbarium is spoken of as 
r oposed ‘grant oad defraying the expenses of completing the ‘ Flora 
Capensis,' left by Dr. = urvey in a half-finished state at his death, at the 
end - the third volum 
irtgen, son of the well-known German botanist, writing from 
Üiblesie offers the originals of the 12 fasciculi of the herbarium of 
eal plants for £4, and also * a fine herbarium of foreign plants classified 
ceording to De Candolle’s system, «es containing hon 10,000 to 12,000 
eig good preservation," 
A - of dried plants, chiefly E Deomm took place on March 
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