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Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr.—K. Schiedermayr, ‘“ A Granite Island in 
the Challe hills of Upper Austria.”—A. Kerner, “ Distribution of 
Hungarian Plants” Sone .).—J. L. Holuby, “‘ Brambles of Podhrad in 
Hungary.”—H. Kemp, ‘‘ Supplement to Flora of Neighbourhood of 
Vorarlberg” (contd. si 
Botaniska Notiser (15 Dec.).—J. E. Areschoug, “On Scandi- 
navian Alge nearly allied to Dictyosiphon foniculaceus or readily con- 
sa ng with it ” (Phleospora, gen. nov. = Scytosiphon ‘fishin, 
yngb.). 
New Books.—J. D. Hooker and others, ‘ Flora of British India,” 
_ 2, Polygalacee—Geraniacee (Reeve and Co., 10s. 6d.). Ly 
ey, T. Moore, and others, sete! of Botany,” ed. 2, with 
Supplement iia p and Co., 12s.).—‘‘ Die Zweite Deutsche No ord- 
polarfahrt in den J. 1869 u. sr ” vol. 2, Zoology and Botany 
(Leipsig, 14s.). 
The ‘* Nova Acta” of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Upsala 
for 1873 (ser. 3, vol. viii., fase. 2) contains a valuable memoir on the 
Desmidiacee of ’ Sweden, by P. M. Lundell, with five plates, and a 
descriptive monograph by S. Henscher of ‘the species of Peperomia 
from Caldas » Brazil, with seven plates 
The ‘ Bericht” of the Senckenberg a. Society of 
Natural Science has an account of the vegetation of the Bermudas 
by J. J. Rein, who also contributes a preda on some remarkable plants 
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There has lately feenpa published a well-written handbook to the 
united parishes of Colvend and Smethwick, situated close upon the 
south-western border of the Stewartry of Kirkeudbright, and a few 
miles from the county town of Dumfriesshire. Our co correspondent, the 
graphia pee ia a history of Drugs of Tepouable Origin used in 
Great Britain _ er int by F. A. Fliikiger and Daniel 
Hanbury (Macmillan).—“ Primer of Botany,” by Dr. Hooker 
(Macmillan).—*« sey Text. book of Botan” by Robert Brown 
(Blackwood).—* St. Helena, a description of the Island, including its 
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AK ‘Lees, F.L.S., of Tartlepool, is en me in the spew so at 
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accept any information on the botany of the distric 
e understand that the “ ee Catalogue of “British Plants ”’ i 
now all but out of print, and that Mr. Watson has undertaken to ae 
