988 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The French Academy has elected two foreign correspondents in the 
section of Botany—M. Planchon in place of M. Leco oq, and M. Weddell 
iu cap of Piofeipee ohl. 
are glad to see from the Bulletin of the Belgian Botanical Society 
that M. Dumortier, the cma in -— intends shortly to publish 
a complete Flora of Belgium. This cannot fail to be a work of vary great 
interest and value, and iti is to be hes will € lé long delayed. 
At the recent combined First B.A., Firs t B.Se., and — 
Scientific M.B. Examinations of the Univ versity of London C. 
Sandet, of Downing College, Cambridge, obtained the Exhibition in 
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A new handbook of British plants is in preparation by Mr. W. R. 
Hayward, to be entitled ‘The Botanist's Pocket-book. It will be pub- 
lished by Messrs. Bell and Daldy. 
An excellent fasciculus of dried spon of the mosses of the United 
States has just been issued by Mr. C. F. Austin, under the title of Musei 
ppalachiani. It contains specimens of 450 species and varieties, 
Mr. Austin is a thoroughly practised bryologist, and has had the help of Mr. 
Sullivant in his determinations. e Lg e of the series is 25 dollars; 
the editor's Moni is durs: New Jer 
s has published a ig illustr: ited paper in the ‘Ar- 
chives Neerlandaises " for 1872, tome vii., on a special kind of tube which 
exists in the trunk of the Elder, uu has hitherto been taken for a 
fungus (Rhizomorpha parallela). 
- Bescherelle has published in the 16th volume of the * Memoirs of the 
National aes of the eg Sciences of Cherbourg,” a monograph of 
the known mosses of Mexico.. He enumerates 400 s ecies, of whic 
Phane rogam: 
varieties from all parts of Norw rway, Sweden, Lapland, and Finmark. The 
specimens are well dried and mounted, and the e price asked is 
Prof. Lawson, of Tania Ju started a popular summer class for 
€ M. 1 á yc 
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