352 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
uth American species of Hippocrateacec. The author's views of the 
structure and affinities of g group have been already given in a 
pages (vol. IX. p. 220); in the present paper, 118 species, 47 o 
which were previously uidescfibed, are grouped under 17 genere -12 
o which are new—arranged in four tribes. The memo 
rated with 14 plates from the author's own hand, full of verofal ind 
detailed enter 
aron von Mueller, Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, has 
printed, under the title of “Select Plants readily Eligible for Victorian 
Industrial Culture,” a very full list, in alphabetical order, of economic 
e climates. The tim 
case of these more especially desirable for cultivation in pedes 'extend- 
ing into articles ‘of greater length. A great amount of scattered infor- 
mation is brought together in this useful catalogue. 
lora of Portugal is announced to be in preparation by Senor 
Baroo de Castello de Paiva. It will include all the additions made 
since 1804, the date of Brotero’s excellent ** Flora Lusitanic 
The two annual Fungus exhibitions at Hereford and South Kensington 
have passed off with their usual success. Humorous accounts m 
the pen of ** W. G. S.," illustrated by his praetised pencil, appear in 
* Gardeners’ Chronicle’ "of October 5th and 19th. 
Dr. Eichler has been appointed to be Pakas of Botany at Kiel 
kier care of the botanic garden. there, and will proceed thither ‘at Easter, 
3. 
The silver medal offered by the Soe re Society of London — 
for the best herbarium of British Plants, has been awarded to e 
sisted of upwards of 70 species from m ‘parts of England ial 
Ireland. As we have had an opportunity oC seeing this herbarium, we 
ean Ege in the highest terms of the selection and nomenclature of the 
"e greatest sorrow we record the death of Dr. Fried- 
rich Welwitsch, the great African botanist and traveller. He died at 
his residence, in London, on October 20th, æt. 65. We shall give an 
extended obituary next month. 
The death is recorded, on 16th October, of the widow of the late 
Sir W. J. Hooker, of Kew, at the age of 15 years. She was the daugh- 
ter of Dawson "Turner, of Yarmouth, the well-known botanist and 
antiquary 
The collections of the late Dr. Hill, of Basingstoke, an excellent 
botanist, who died during the past summer, have been purch ased for 
ba: Winchester Museum ; they are especially rich in pies and , 
A presentation copy of Mougeot and Nestler’s “ Stirpes Crypt gamicæe 
Vogeso Rhen (14 volumes 4to), with the Lichens taken out, is offered 
for sale at £12, ay its present possessor, whose address may be procu 
of Mr. J. G. Bak 
Doaa T. 307, line 10 from bottom, for “ horizontal” read 
ce erect.” 
