62 BOTANICAL NEWS, 
involving a con:iderable increase in the amount of material. As the 
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possible has been intercalated. It is to be regretted that convenience 
of reference, a matter of the first importance in a dictionary, has been 
unavoidably interfered with by the relegation of the great bulk of the 
new matter toa supplement. This occupies nearly 100 pages, the 
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e instanced an account of the “‘Saxaul” plant (dmabasis Ammoden- 
dron) as met with in the Khivan oitpadisions and descriptions of 
Symea, Schtzobasis, and other genera recently described in this and 
are _ It is of course difficult to know how much to include 
encyclopedia of this kind, and it is impossible to make it so com- 
prehensive that further additions could not be hy tet bee several 
ave no 
the low price of which is within the reach of all likely to require 
them. H. T. 
Botanical Peivg. 
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Articles In JourNALs.—Decemsrr, 1873. 
Bee vise J. Berkeley, ‘‘ Notices of North American Fungi” 
(contd.).— rington, ‘‘ New British Hepatic ” ae bifurca, 
Hoff., 2. tie Bisch., Vardia revoluta, Lindb. ; 18). 
Peccie hly Mier. Journ. aig: Gulliver, ‘On Crysta tals ere Testa and 
ricarp of agra Orders of Plants and in other parts of the Legumi- 
nose ” (tab. 4 
Journ. Linn. Soc. (No. 74, Dec. 3).—Berkeley a 1 
“Enumeration of the Fungi of Ceylon,” part 2 eg —10). 
Flora.—A, Minks, “ Obituary of J. F. Laurer.”—C. Heskiiel 
‘* On the Species of Fumaria , sect. Shae” (contd. ; F. gaditana, 
n.s., ¥, malacitana, n.s). 
Hedwig. —R. "Ruthe, “On cceemabae se Shawit.”—J. Schroeter, 
sé Remarks the ew allow -diseas P Mi 
A. Geheeb, is Bryolo sich dies ” (Puccinia Malvacearum).— 
Botanische Zeitung.—O. Uhlwo **On the Development of the 
Trichome, with special reference +e "Prickles ”” (contd.). 
